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

You have a large budget, check out VoodooPC for one idea.

Regards,
JB

(Who likes his VoodooPC PC)

Alienware has a bad reputation for quality of machine on arrival and support there afterward. THey also have very weird support policies when it comes to hardware. So many people on this forum will tell you to stay away from Alienware.

The Dell m1710 is an impressive machine but I have a few other suggestions. Starting with Dell I would take a look at the XPS. THey are more high end systems built specifically for multimedia heavy users. Other then Dell I would like into Asus. Specifically the Asus G1 Gaming System. This particular laptop has a high end graphics power, combined with great processor power this machine is also a great pc. However to get these high end features you must find a model that has the all the high end compnents built in because ASUS doesn't build the machine around your specs.

The last machine I would look into is from a computer manufacturer that I am really onboard with. And that is Sony. I feel that Sony has great machines, they last long, they have strength and reliability and they are stylish. Definately look into the higher end Sony Laptops. Good Luck

I have used a TX series model intensively. It is a really great system. Again with the great multimedia features you can still go with an extremely lightweight notebook or one of the more heavier ones, which is usually more geared to your needs.

I would definately have to say the Executioner by Killernotebooks.
here's a review: http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/notebooks/kn-executioner/

The executioner is probably the Fastest gaming laptop in the market right now. It's a Sager 5760 variant so it's build solid and stylish (looks much better than the xps or most other laptops).

The killernotebooks variant comes with modified heatsinks so their overclocked 7950 gtx's are faster than other gaming laptops'. Plus, their customer service is said to be legendary since they deal with such a small group of people.

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If I were you I would just get a desktop PC. Gaming laptops tend to get very hot and suck battery power like crazy.

So unless you absolutely must have a portable laptop and a bulky AC brick, I would spend the money to get a desktop PC that has even better specs.

Well if you want the fastest laptop out there yet... and have a 4.5k budget... Look at Sager laptops, Voodoo PC is basically a re-branded fancy looking Sager. Currently the fastest out there is the NP5960. But be warned, its a beast! 20" Display, and 2 Nvidia 7950 GTX's in SLI.

http://www.sagernotebook.com/index.html

Unfortunately, as of now, the fastest processor out there that can handle the heat and overall load of those SLI cards is the AMD x2 TL60, a Dual core running at 2.0GHZ. This is the only downside and bottleneck of the system... (besides how freaking huge it is.)In a perfect world the NP5960's processor should be a Intel Core 2 Duo. But the C2D + SLI setup does NOT exist... yet. Alienware I think will be bringing that setup in the Late March/ May time frame. However you dont need to look far to see a host of people from forums that dont trust Alienware and think their customer service and build quality is crap. I've read some serious horror stories about Alienware... Anyway... look into Sager/Clevo Resellers such as PCTORQUE, Hypersonic, Xotic PC and such... but I can for a fact say that right now, the NP5960 is the fastest laptop on the planet... and the biggest lol

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!!!!!!!!!

Im a student... therefore it is neccasary

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!

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)