I should buy a notebook from...?

[dmcgugin]

Planning on buying a notebook soon as I get my tax refunds (yay monies) and was wondering what company is the favored among notebook providers. The main purpose will most likely be for gaming, I hear alienware is some sort of top dogs in gaming field, but was suggested to a company called ASUS and their deals seem to good to be legit.

tl;dr what company will provide a good gaming labtop that won't crap out on me in a few months after purchase? Also in the army so pc isn't a option unfortunatly.

 

[BlueberryMUNCH]

Okay, I'm no expert, and I could be totally wrong, but here goes;

Alienware is overpriced. Don't bother.
Asus...as far as I know...are no good. But then again, I could be completely wrong, I can't remember where I heard that from.

As far as all round decent notebooks go...I'll recommend some from HP. Yuh.

Can I suggest not getting one altogether and getting a PC instead? :]

 

[theriddlen]

Error e37f8bn >>> Gaming+Notebook=Nope.

 

[Radeonx]

I'd recommend getting a gaming PC for about $500-600 (You can get one custom built, or find a good one on newegg.com. Mine was $600 and can run any game currently out at max settings.) and then getting a netbook for all other purposes.

Gaming laptops that can run top end games will be incredibly expensive.

Also, Alienware is incredibly expensive. Stay away from them.

 

[dmcgugin]

Well the general agreement seems to be PC are the way to go for gaming, and Alienware is the air jordans of of computers.

Honestly that what I'd prefer, but I'm in the Army so I need something with more mobility, I've also come to terms that I'm gonna be dropping atleast $1500-1800 to get what I'm looking for.

Now that I look back this is all information I should have added in my first post lol.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Error e37f8bn >>> Gaming+Notebook=Nope.

Actually, recently quite a few good gaming laptops exist. never as good as PC, grant you, but its finally become an option. And the price differences have dropped a bit as well.

To OP: ASUS or HP. ASUS should be the first stop though.

Also: A desktop is totally an option for the Army. I dragged my tower to Iraq and back, and from post to post.

 

[mad825]

..you want a netbook for gaming? A laptop barely suffices as a "gaming" machine in my opinion but a bloodily netbook is something else.

 

[linkvegeta]

Planning on buying a notebook soon as I get my tax refunds (yay monies) and was wondering what company is the favored among notebook providers. The main purpose will most likely be for gaming, I hear alienware is some sort of top dogs in gaming field, but was suggested to a company called ASUS and their deals seem to good to be legit.

tl;dr what company will provide a good gaming labtop that won't crap out on me in a few months after purchase? Also in the army so pc isn't a option unfortunatly.

I will never buy ASUS again, when you need to fix your comp they like to make it super difficult, and downloading drivers from their website is torture.
Acer does a half decent job, but nothing will be as good as building your own