The Best Gaming Laptop Money Can Buy 161
Parz writes "Gameplayer has gone live with their winners for the best gaming laptops money can buy as of Q3 2008. The analysis is broken into three sections to cater for three different budget requirements. There is a detailed explanation of why each laptop was selected, going into each hardware component individually. Regular Slashdot users will remember the site's article from a few weeks ago, which analysed the Best Gaming PCs that Money can Buy. Prices may vary depending on where you live."
Re:Never use a laptop for gaming. (Score:0, Informative)
My 1 year old notebook still plays all of the current games.
You're living in the past my friend.
Re:Too much RAM? (Score:2, Informative)
Not completely. Sure, they won't see all of the ram with 32-bit windows. But, in my experiences, windows will recognize between 3.25 to 3.5GB in a 4GB system.
Ideally, 3GB would be the config to use for modern gaming PC's running 32-bit windows (gaming benchmarks seem to indicate that 3GB is better than 2GB for current-gen games). However, if you don't run matched pairs, your ram isn't in dual channel mode.
So what do you do? Run 4GB across 2 or 4 sticks. It's your best, albeit slightly wasteful, memory config for gaming. And if/when you decide to migrate to 64-bit windows, you're in good shape memory-wise.
Reviews on spec (Score:5, Informative)
I reject these totally (Score:5, Informative)
A gaming laptop review without reviewing one from Sager?
Ridiculous. I love my Sager, and the company is great.
http://www.sagernotebook.com/ [sagernotebook.com]
Re:Too much RAM? (Score:3, Informative)
You may want to look that word up some time.
In addition to the obvious mythological reference, which has nothing to do with Tolkien, the Hebrew word 'Golem' means 'fool', 'stupid' or 'clueless'. So, with that in mind, the review can be read as "If a stupid, clueless fool had a computer, this would be it."
The only way you could praise it more would be to say that it has "more schmaltz for your schlemiel".
Re:Never use a laptop for gaming. (Score:3, Informative)
Really, what is silly is that laptops don't have upgradable graphics.
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I agree that it is silly. But for some people it is necessary.
I am a programmer who does a lot of gaming, and writes games on the side. I got hired to do development at a job that requires me to travel, so I had to get a laptop. Since I use the same tools at work and at home, I either ditch the desktop and use the laptop for everything (including games), or I try to install everything on both computers and keep everything in sync. That's a real big pain. So I opted to get a laptop with a GeForce 8600 GT Mobile, and use my laptop as my gaming PC.
It is a hassle. But for me, it is better than the alternative.
Re:Never use a laptop for gaming. (Score:3, Informative)
Some of us are willing to pay more than that to get old games like warcraft 2 working smoothly.
Hehe. Speaking of which, I played Warcraft II yesterday for a few hours on my Dell Inspiron 8100 that I bought in like 2001... for gaming.
It's suited my every gaming need since that time and I still play World of Warcraft on it. I couldn't play Doom 3 on it back then, but when I bought a gaming desktop a few years back, I just bought Doom 3 then.
It's a great machine for running my other older games I never got a chance to play, like Baulders Gate, Fallout 1 & 2, Warcraft 2, and Starcraft. And for playing casual Flash games.
Re:Too much RAM? (Score:3, Informative)
Considering the author had blatantly incorrect things like:
I would bet you all the money I have right now that he didn't know the Hebrew meaning for golem, and was in fact trying and failing to reference the Lord of the Rings character. It's very nice that you give him the benefit of the doubt, but the writer gives way too many places to doubt to make that even slightly noble.