Mobile Gaming At Desktop Speeds

DigitalBiscuit writes: "Today's leading edge laptop PCs are packing serious power under their thin little hoods, enough that even the hard core gamer may sit up and take note. Here's a full showcase (dismantled to show you the innards) with benchmarks on a Dell unit that employs NVIDIA's new GeForce4 440 Go GPU and a Pentium 4M (mobile) processor at 1.6GHz. Take one of these babies to the local LAN meet and be the envy of your Mountain Dew chugging cohorts." Of course, this will cost a lot more than similarly powerful desktop, but some people don't seem to mind that tradeoff.

Comments

hmmmm....

[meth88]

This seems strangely like an infomercial. How much does a frontpage ./ article cost nowadays?

If you want portable speed, get a PowerBook...

[Etcetera]

Seriously, the only platform that can reasonably get same-as-desktop speed out of their laptops is Apple's.

Chips by Intel and AMD (for the kind of speed needed for these types of activities, or just general high-intensity apps) simply cannot do the work needed for the price/feature/weight point needed.

Especially with Mac OS X now firmly in place, this really hits home why more and more people are dumping their Toshiba's and Sony's and hopping onto PowerBooks at their next upgrade cycle.

Unless you see nothing wrong with needing an industrial-strength blower to keep your lap cool.