[Quiet Man Cometh]

So after further consultations with Tech Support, and looking up these benchmark things I hear about, I checked out the specs for Nier Automata which appears to be my most demanding and barely playable game right now, and I should be looking at at least a GTX 1060 (or equivalent, but I'm not sure what that would be. These are still just numbers to me). I'm not married to 60 fps at 1080 resolution, but it would be nice if the game actually worked. I think I'd like to have around 16GB ram.

You mentioned Dell, Coda. Thought on that? My brother, who has bought some 20 of the things for his company, finds them to be quite reliable, more so than others they have tried, but these also aren't gaming laptops.

I checked out these "I Buy Power" people that I just encountered in a youtube review of the ASUS ROG Strix. There little quick picks thing on their mobile site picked up the MSI GF62VR 7RF, the Chimera PA71HS-G Slim, and the MSI GS73VR 120Hz Stealth Pro-225. Prices range from 1400 - 1900 USD. (ASUS ROG Zephyrus is there but out of my price range).

I have thought about getting the new model Stealth Pro, but Iam concerned of the potential resurgence of they keyboard issue (a known keyboard issue from the response I got from the MSI forums when I asked about it) which I had to get MSI to fix under warranty. I have a personal suspicious that the thinness of the design is partly to blame, because pressure on certain parts of the case can cause the mouse to jump, so I am leery when I hear talk about the "soft touch" casing, which I think this is supposed to be. There was a comment on a review of the new Stealth Pro that the mouse has the same jumping habit. A user made a complaint about the space bar, though not what the complaint was. I notice this space bar doesn't always work on the right side.

My brother is going to check out a local place known for building custom computers and modifying others, so we'll see if they can put something together. That's what I'd like to do, I think. Would save me the headaches of looking through comparing every number that I barely understand on these things.