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Miscellaneous laptop discussions : What is the best laptop for gaming?

by EEaglefan - 2/20/07 1:21 PM
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Post 16 of 22

Your are so wrong about that computer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by Lmor21 - 11/2/07 2:19 PM In reply to: So you want the Fastest laptop?? by Perthos

Read this off of a review that i copied from Notebookreview.com.

Gaming

Then came the ultimate test of all times, which failed, miserably. That's right. The test failed miserably. I installed Flight Simulator X on the machine, maxed out the settings, and started the game. It was a slide-show. Extremely disappointing, needless to say, after a near 5 grand investment, dual SLI video cards, and this beautiful 20" screen. My only consolation is that - to date - there is no machine on the surface of the planet capable of running Flight Simulator X, out-of-the-box, with reasonable performance. Perhaps when the dual core patch is released things will look better. Or perhaps if this laptop had a Core 2 Duo processor, things might have been better too. Right now the performance on this laptop with its all-so-mighty SLI video cards is actually slower than my Alienware Core 2 Duo 2.33 with its humble ATI x1800 video card, offering only 256 MB memory. I believe this highlights how this system is truly under-powered by its Turion X2 processor, running at 1.8 GHz. In a way, bad design choice, and in fact, what a waste of GPU power. Perhaps it was the NVIDIA chipset that prohibited the usage of Core 2 Duo on this platform, but I'm pretty sure if the newest Core 2 Duo 2.33 with overclockability to 2.5 was on this machine, results would have been a lot better.

Unless you own one and can vouch for it.


Sorry to burst your bubble!!!!!!!!!

Post 17 of 22

Why?

by jmanjohns2 - 2/23/07 11:35 AM In reply to: What is the best laptop for gaming? by EEaglefan

Out of curiosity, why the urge for a Laptop? Honestly, unless you are in school or go to a lot of lan parties, there isn't much reason (IMHO) for a laptop. You can build or buy a nice gaming rig more powerful than the very best gaming laptops for half the price.

If you insist upon a laptop however, I would be inclined to get something with SLI. You could look at the Sagers, also check out Hypersonic. Hypersonic is really only a rebranded Sager (which is itself a rebranded Clevo), but they have a great reputation for customer service with boutique buyers (people who don't mind spending a fortune for the same product with "better" service ;-). Personally I don't like Alienware, but if you want something special looking for that kind of money (I would) then maybe thats for you. Tech wise, all three, the Hypersonix AX9, Sager np5960, or the Alienware m9700 (or if you want to waste money the mALX) are pretty similar, so it comes down to price and how comfortable you are with the reputations (or lack thereof) of the different brands.

Post 18 of 22

why

by EEaglefan - 2/23/07 1:32 PM In reply to: Why? by jmanjohns2

Im a student... therefore it is neccasary

Post 19 of 22

Why Laptop

by EEaglefan - 2/28/07 6:18 PM In reply to: Why? by jmanjohns2

I am in school

Post 20 of 22

Gaming Note Book

by mr. stephan - 2/24/07 12:30 PM In reply to: What is the best laptop for gaming? by EEaglefan

Buy from Dell and you are a fool, I have priced there PC's and you can get the same thing anywhere for 2k less!

Post 21 of 22

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by JackTheCrow - 2/24/07 4:38 PM In reply to: Gaming Note Book by mr. stephan

Actually, dell's e1705 probably has the best price to performance ratio out of all the gaming laptops. a fully loaded e1705 equipped with a 7900gs for something around 1400$ can easily preform on par with systems 2K more. I know mine does, anyway.

Post 22 of 22

17 inch

by madmaisa13 - 3/13/07 10:49 PM In reply to: What is the best laptop for gaming? by EEaglefan

As stated previously I do not recommend a 17 inch laptop!!!

...however If you plan on getting one I would recommend the alienware aurora m9700 or a Satellite P100-S9772; also "asus" laptops are also great! however their graphics cards do not perform as well as others (in the 17 inch ranges)

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