I'll just keep it simple. Unless you need the laptop for school and work you really shouldn't buy it. Before I bought my desktop I wanted the same thing. But laptops life expectancy isn't very good. Plus laptops lose value very fast. I mean your talking about dropping one grand plus for something that won't run GTA V High if at all medium. Now recommended settings, yeah you should be fine. But if I was you I would reconsider the gaming laptop idea as you would get more bang for your buck with a desktop. As you stated you don't really care if it can run pretty as long as it can run, which the laptop will do.