craptop!

[kAoS-sirro]

looking at a laptop......yes for gaming.....but anyway. looking at the dell lineup and was 3k-3.4k $ for what i was looking at....and the vid cards were a bit meh.

found this at a nice price..the vid card is a little old but a solid 460m
ASUS G73SW
http://apcmag.com/notebookhunter/asus-g73sw-l1.htm

i cant find one that absolutely rocks tho. help me out if you got some inside info!

[kAoS-sirro]

oh yeah first and imediate upgrade is an ssd and win xp64 and linux dual boot.

[kAoS-sirro]

OK this one. pretty much the same as that one tho.


ASUS G73SW-FHD-TZ016V
Specifications
Warranty 2 Year Global
OS Win7 Home Premium 64Bit
Processor Intel® Core i7 2630QM 2Ghz (Turbo 2.9G)/6M
Display 17.3" LED FHD (1920 x 1080) ZBD
Memory 8GB DDR3-1333 (4 DIMM Max 16GB)
HDD 1TB SSH (500GB Hybrid HDD * 2)
ODD Bluray Writer
Chipset Intel® HM65
Graphic 1.5GB DDR5 NVIDIA® GTX 460M
Audio Built-in speaker; microphone ; subwoofer ; EAX audigy 5.0 ; THX True Studie
NW 802.11 b/g/n
BT
Battery 8 Cell / 5200mAh
Camera 2.0M
Weight 3.85 KG
Dimension 41.5(W) x 32.0(D) x 1.89 ~ 5.69 (H) cm
Card Reader SDXC?MMC?MS?MS Duo?MS Pro
USB 1x USB 3.0 3x USB 2.0
I/O 1x Microphone-in jack;1x Headphone-out jack;1x RJ45 LAN Jack for LAN insert;1x VGA Port (D-Sub);1x HDMI
Keyboard Gaming illuminated Chiclet Keyboard (Numeric keypad)
Adaptor 150W
Acc ROG Gaming Mice Steel-Series Headset ROG Gaming Backpack

Price $ 2449

[gämmö]

fuck nice..... yeah dat will run almost anything....

bet it gets hot thou.... you won't need central heating with that thing around....


lolz

IF you got the cash.. go for an Alienware Laptop... set ya back 10 grand ++, but you can help NASA Land the space shuttle with it....

[kAoS-Bambislayer]

Nice laptop - although I'm not really a fan of Asus lappies

I have a Dell XPS 1730 with dual 8800's sitting collecting dust - I got it back in the days when I thought I would go gaming on a laptop.

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4225

It's still a nice laptop but I only fire it up once every 6 months or when-ever I remember about it - lol. It's a beast in terms of size - classified more as a desktop replacement than a laptop.

While it was and still is great in the graphics department (sli 8800m gtx's - they are between 5 - 12% slower than the gtx 460m in that Asus your looking at - not bad for a 3 year old laptop!) the disk drive in it was rather slow - a 5400 rpm drive - it lets the laptop down. Mind you, it's got two hdd slots so I guess one could put in 2 SSD's and it would fly. The cpu is dual core which was good in it's day but that Asus is a quad core so the cpu grunt in my 1730 wouldn't even get a look in.

I also have an HP i7 laptop packed out with 16 gb of ram :-) Departing cheap purchase when I got the arse from HP. It's nice but I don't notice that much of a difference in every day use compared to my 1730 but under load obviously my HP just keeps powering on. The i7's are nice but I can't say I have noticed a huge difference.

Over all I found gaming on a laptop disappointing. The keyboard is just not acceptable for gaming so you got to plug in another one. Some of the screen panels are slowish compared to a lot of the desktop panels so if one wants reduced screen lag then you have to make sure the laptop has a good panel or plug in an external monitor etc

Maybe for most games the newer highend laptops are good - most games now are gpu limited and not cpu limited and the gpu's in laptops are the m series (nvidia) so they have less shaders, pipelines etc - you really got to check out the reviews and preferably reviews with the specific game or at least game engine that you wanna play. Some rigs play one game good and another game crap for instance.

oh yeah - these gaming laptops really pump out the heat so some say one of those laptop cooling stands are a good idea.

Check out the following link - they have reviews of laptops and what games you can generally play on them

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-G ... 849.0.html

[kAoS-Hender]

mate with alien ware dell laptop was not happy with it when he went from a gaming asus. his reasoning was he just got so much more with the asus, teh top of the line dell was not better but u pay for the branding. he sold the dell within 3weeks and bought an asus =]

nice choise bitch aka sirro