I've been looking around for awhile, for a high quality gaming laptop for around $1000. Maximum price range is around $1,500. I'm trying to steer away from the lower end companies, so I've been looking at Asus' and Dell XPS's(XPS's are out of my price range though). I would like at -least- 4GBs of RAM, preferably 6GB. Hardrive size is a 250GB minimum, I'm not too concerned, I can always use an external harddrive. Must be 7200rpm. Screen size is 14'' minimum. And 780p isn't a problem, unless it has a Blu-ray player. As for graphics card comparison, it seems popular to attempt running Crysis on higher graphic settings, so, if it can do that, I'm fine with it. Any suggestions?
don't get a laptop. They are not capable of games no matter what the manufacturers tell you. They can't handle the heat running games produces.
Sure they are. I can run Assassin's Creed and Prototype fine on my laptop at medium to high settings. Anyway, if you are going to get a laptop, try to avoid anything with an ATI Mobility card (most of Asus' products carry these iirc). You'll regret it. nVidia cards with dedicated memory (at least 256MB for gaming) are probably your best starting point. Look for the portable cards under that specification and then find what computers are carrying those chipsets to see if any are within your price range.
well, maybe todays laptop models can... like you said, its a couple of years ago, they might upgrade the specs of that today... but like you said, the heat is always the problem, sure it can run, but heat would always reck the laptop.
My laptop is a year old and was only like $800 when I got it and I can run modern games at pretty good settings. Modern Warfare 2 is pretty much set to high settings and runs smoothly.
Void, what laptop did you get (if you don't mind sharing)? I'm planning to go buy another laptop this year.
Some laptops can run games-not high spec but they can... Mine is a HP 6830s It can run resident evil 5 (most effect off for 40-50fps) and devil may cry (same again). It sure ain't a bad work horse Here is what the specs are when using one of those online bench mark sites. This makes sence to me, it's listed by the laptop as 2ghz, but it can run this...dual core means it's 3.2ghz
laptop processors will confuse the speed measurement because they are constantly changing their speed (to save power). So while it may be a 3.2Ghz processor, it was probably only running at 2.0Ghz when it was measured. Dual core means the effective speed is twice that of one core (which is nominally 3.2Ghz), but this only applies to programs that take advantage of multiple cores.
That makes sence. Using the CMD prompt to get the specs, it is 2.00ghz But on this it got 3.2ghz-which helps me understand dead space seen here works ...My mates thought it was overclocked-I knew it wasn't but I didn't think of this...
OKay, there is this SONY VAIO laptop that has a huge screen (18.4 inches!) and my mom bought it. It's great! It was $1399.99 at the time (march 2009) ad here are the specs. 4GB RAM 500GB HHD Intel Core 2 Duo (Sony always uses this processor!) 18.4 inch screen, good for nice crisp video (there is also a 17 inch version) 256MB RAM for Graphics Card Overall, I would suggest you get a gaimg PC (which is cheaper) but if you do get a laptop, make sure you use it on a table or something or it will overheat! (Never on the bed!) Either way, I would rather get a gaming PC!
