OK, so I need a new computer to play games on. *Preferably* a laptop, but 
I'm not too worried about size or weight as I don't expect to actually carry 
it about, but I could buy a gaming desktop and a replacement business laptop 
if I had to. Oh, Windows, of course.

Everything I read is either cheap and gets awful reviews, or astoundingly 
expensive and gets mediocre reviews.

Any hints on what I should be looking at?
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I've never actually bought a gaming laptop myself, but I seem to recall 
hearing good things about Alienware (although no doubt they'll be 
expensive).


On 10/16/2011 4:42 PM, Darren New wrote:
> OK, so I need a new computer to play games on. *Preferably* a laptop,
> but I'm not too worried about size or weight as I don't expect to
> actually carry it about, but I could buy a gaming desktop and a
> replacement business laptop if I had to. Oh, Windows, of course.
>
> Everything I read is either cheap and gets awful reviews, or
> astoundingly expensive and gets mediocre reviews.
>
> Any hints on what I should be looking at?

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Any hints on what I should be looking at?

  At a desktop computer. Laptops are not gaming computers and probably
never will. You can run (some) games in them, but don't expect them to
run fast. (Except if you only want to run games that are older than 10
years.)

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Warp escreveu:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Any hints on what I should be looking at?
> 
>   At a desktop computer. Laptops are not gaming computers and probably
> never will. You can run (some) games in them, but don't expect them to
> run fast. (Except if you only want to run games that are older than 10
> years.)

no doubt.

Then again, for many people these days, gaming is all about idiot 
shallow fun like Angry Birds or Wii/XBox Sports...

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On 10/16/2011 16:42, Darren New wrote:
> Everything I read is either cheap and gets awful reviews, or astoundingly
> expensive and gets mediocre reviews.

I got a Toshiba Qosmio X775-Q7384. It has a GTX560 in it, which should be 
sufficient for my needs. It also has a crapload of RAM and a huge disk for a 
portable, or I'm showing my age since last time I bought a computer, one or 
the other. :-)  Should have it in a few days.

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Warp wrote:
>    At a desktop computer. Laptops are not gaming computers and probably
> never will.
This.

Besides everything a in a laptop is more expensive IF and only IF you 
can upgrade something everything else is fixed by model, sub-model and 
sub-sub-model, why? PROFIT and they OVERHEAT at normal functioning, CPU 
runs at 5% average and GPU 1%, if you play games you need minimum 
settings and even so both, CPU & GPU could get to 100%.

In a Desktop the tech heaven doors are open, huge coolers (water ones if 
you have the cash), all the upgrades you want, Overclocking them, 
something got tasted, just change the piece, components are cheaper, 
faster, you can get coolers that support liquid hydrogen/nitrogen and 
get a AMD Phenom from 2.4Ghz to 7 Ghz, about 6.2Ghz stable, per core, 
imagine with faster native frequency CPUs today that support 8 cores; 
your budget is the limit. Intel has tripple channel but Hyperthreading 
is not that good, 4 hyperthreaded cores are actually like 5 cores.

Tip on AMD CPUs/GPUs: before buying run tests of "heavy" games to take 
the CPU & GPU as close to 100% as possible and select a cooler 
accordingly. Lock that beast in a air-conditioned room and enjoy the 
games :-)

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