Gaming Laptops

[mALX]

This one: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9172511&st=gaming&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1218043606827

That's a really low price too!!

It's amazing, isn't it? Plus, the screen is insane (17" for a laptop is quite a lot), and the graphics card is a 9800 with its own separate memory.
I came accross it because I am looking for gaming laptops myself (I'm planning on spending around 900-1100 dollars)

I posted a link to the exact same laptop. I bought one in January with rebate, this thing is better than some desktops out there. The 1GB Video Card really helps. If you read all the user reviews, EVERYONE is able to run EVERYTHING on high.

I have to find those reviews, but someone else on here posted on it and played both Oblivion and Fallout 3 on it. My favorite thing is that graphics card with a gig dedicated.

 

[Sewblon]

They exist, though they are incredibly expensive and probably not worth it.

 

[mALX]

I think someone brought this up a bit ago, and I looked it up - look at these stats!

Asus W90Vp-X1 [http://computershopper.com/laptops/reviews/asus-w90vp-x1]



(unfortunately 700 over my budget) -

 

[yankeefan19]

If there is an affordable gaming laptop I want it.

 

[stinkypitz]

I remember seeing a laptop in PC gamer magazine that could play fairly new games on decent settings and was only 700 dollars, if your interested il find what it is.

 

[mALX]

If there is an affordable gaming laptop I want it.

Asus has a laptop coming that they refuse to price but it has 12 gig memory and a 5000 gig hard drive - the downfall is the graphics card, they said the best they could do is one NVidia 9800 GT or something. (which is better than I have on my desktop, but what are you going to do with all that memory and hard drive with that small a graphics card?

 

[Horticulture]

The Gateway people have been linking above has a pretty impressive GPU for a $1200 notebook. The CPU might bottleneck performance a little, though. There's an ASUS in your price range [http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220491] sporting a slower GPU but faster processor with twice the cache. It might actually manage better framerates at high settings because of the smaller screen/lower resolution.

Do you need to do gaming on the go? You could get an inexpensive laptop and put together a solid gaming desktop for $1500.

 

[Joos]

If anyone has found a laptop that will play Oblivion and Fallout 3 on at least medium graphics without lag, could you please let me know? (and list the graphics, memory, hard drive, OS, etc. that comes with that laptop please?)

This one would, quite easily, since it is more powerful than the 15" alienware:
http://www.sagernotebook.com/product_customed.php?pid=160092

There are plenty of 17" dragtops out there than can play games, however, I wouldn't call them laptops. Portable perhaps, but I draw my laptop size at 15".

 

[yankeefan19]

good point

 

[Shath]

Well mALX it sure isnt your name lol. I own a mALX alienware laptop. Regret it each day. I'd Guess a pimped out dell XPS could do the job?

 

[mALX]

If anyone has found a laptop that will play Oblivion and Fallout 3 on at least medium graphics without lag, could you please let me know? (and list the graphics, memory, hard drive, OS, etc. that comes with that laptop please?)

This one would, quite easily, since it is more powerful than the 15" alienware:
http://www.sagernotebook.com/product_customed.php?pid=160092

There are plenty of 17" dragtops out there than can play games, however, I wouldn't call them laptops. Portable perhaps, but I draw my laptop size at 15".

That was a lot lower price than the other Sagers I looked at today, some of it is because of the 15.4" whereas the ones I looked up were 17" - but it had a lot of what I think it would need (dedicated graphics, ram, at least 2.2 Ghz process speed, and faster hard drive). I customized it to the least I could stand (no TV tuner, ) - and added the least warranty I could stand, and it wasn't bad, just 1,890. Over my budget, but if I find a good one I will hold off buying and aim toward the better one (within reason, I can't hold off for the 4-6,000 ones, lol).

Thanks for showing me this one!

 

[Joos]

No worries, I think the mobile 260 GPU is going to be a killer. No deliveries until april, but I think it will be worth waiting for.

 

[KenzS]

I have a 18.6" Toshiba Qosmio, it can handle Fallout 3 as far as i know, but its an expensive laptop... $1600, and not too mention its so big i cant even find a bag for it!

why not just buy an xbox?

 

[mALX]

I have a 18.6" Toshiba Qosmio, it can handle Fallout 3 as far as i know, but its an expensive laptop... $1600, and not too mention its so big i cant even find a bag for it!

why not just buy an xbox?

I have an Xbox, I've been carrying it around with me for years, I would like something a little simpler. When you have to set it up, and the TV and stand up, all the wires for both, etc. Then carry a laptop too in order to keep up with my mail, etc. It would be much easier to just carry a laptop and one cord.

 

[rekabdarb]

if you want a good gaming laptop Alienware, good desktop ibuypower.com

and ibuypower is vury chaep, chaep enuf to loer my inteligent evr os sighly

 

[mALX]

if you want a good gaming laptop Alienware, good desktop ibuypower.com

and ibuypower is vury chaep, chaep enuf to loer my inteligent evr os sighly

Lol!! It left your humor intact though! Thanks, and Thanks for the laugh too.

 

[mALX]

Well mALX it sure isnt your name lol. I own a mALX alienware laptop. Regret it each day. I'd Guess a pimped out dell XPS could do the job?

I missed this post somehow. I am glad to read that, because when they first took the mALX off the market I cried! I had been saving up for one (forever, hence the name, lol). What problems have you had? (If you don't mind me asking).

 

[Jack and Calumon]

A gaming laptop! Ahahahahahahahahaha!
That's rich!

Wait you're serious!
Sorry mate, but laptops aren't exactly good for gaming. You're better off with a normal computer.

 

[mALX]

if you want a good gaming laptop Alienware, good desktop ibuypower.com

and ibuypower is vury chaep, chaep enuf to loer my inteligent evr os sighly

I repeat my BIG NO regarding Alienware.

Now, if you absolutely must buy a laptop with support for games (and I stand by my point that they're underpowered, over-priced and hermetically-sealed), I wouldn't spend any more than about $1,000-1,200.

$1,100 will buy you an HP HDX16t laptop with 4GB of memory and a 7,200rpm 250GB hard drive. The processor's going to be rubbish (but then, all mobile processors are in general), and you're only going to get a 9600GT graphics card, but I feel you get diminishing returns a lot more quickly with laptops than you do with desktops. Remember that Eggo presented lists with $750 quad-core desktops with GTX 280 GPUs and $1,500 Core i7 systems, and yet, $1,500 won't even buy you a quad-core when it comes to laptop money.

Yes, I can't afford the top end laptops I've seen, there have been some that are close to my price range that are definately an improvement on the laptop I have now. At the time I got this laptop, I didn't know you could not upgrade a laptop later on (like you can with a desktop); or I would have waited to buy till I had something closer to what I was wanting. Too bad HP won't allow me to trade up, lol.

 

[Shath]

I missed this post somehow. I am glad to read that, because when they first took the mALX off the market I cried! I had been saving up for one (forever, hence the name, lol). What problems have you had? (If you don't mind me asking).

Well to put it nicely when i got the mALX it was practically ruined. Fans weren't put in good enough, The thing was overheating almost just after turning on, the craftsmanship was horrible and they barely installed any drivers, the sound was put so high and so much up that i turned it on for the first time and a ear piercing banshee-howl of a piping noise came up. I thought something was wrong with the computer but i checked it and it was just the driver wasn't installed correctly, I had to go onto their website and download the drivers. At the age of 15 hehe that's when i started really getting into computers cause my alienware was so screwed up by these morons that i have used the past year just trying to fix everything. Being a little noobish but learning more and more so far. You should be happy you didn't buy it. I used all my confirmation money on it. Now i think I'm just gonna scavenge it and sell the parts or something cause its a big pile of useless crap. (Sorry for long whine post)

But seriously the Dell XPS would be the "gaming" laptop of choice. It lasts long (so far my friend has his for 2 years) it runs mostly anything, I'm pretty sure it could handle oblivion. But it would definitely just be a LAN computer, cause stationary is the way to go mate.