Now, to start off, I'd personally rather want a desktop, but my parents want me to buy a laptop to be prepared for when I go to college (which is 4 years away for me), or just the upper classes of high school in case I'll need to bring it to school.
Second of all, I don't expect to run Battlefield 4 or Fallout 4 or anything like that. I play Counter Strike and Minecraft often, and my computer now cannot run them well on even low graphics.
My budget currently is around $1,000-$1,100. It'd be more but my parents are contributing a lot to it and we just recently bought a house so we don't have too much money currently. about $500 or so is coming from me.
So far I have these two on mind, and they're under a grand. They're both laptops and I can most likely find them somewhere else for cheaper than at Best Buy.
#1-
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/msi-15-6-laptop-intel-core-i5-8gb-memory-750gb-hard-drive-gray/7500349.p?id=1219679623926&skuId=7500349#2-
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-geek-squad-certified-refurbished-15-6-touch-screen-laptop-intel-core-i7-8gb-memory-1tb-hdd-silver/8754893.p?id=1219365670015&skuId=8754893#I'm going to guess #2 is the better laptop. If you
wonderful people could help me find a good laptop in that 1000 dollar range, I'd be thankful :)
(I posted a topic like this months ago, but my price range was like 400 or 500 dollars lol)