The FragBook

Petaris writes "For all of you hard core gamers out there a new choice is availiable for gaming notebooks. Introducing the Falcon Northwest FragBook. This notebook will be in direct competition with gaming notebooks from several competetors including Alienware and VooDoo. Falcon-nw, VooDoo, and more recently Alienware are the place to look for insanely high end and usually fairly expensive gaming systems. The gaming notebook, a more recent arrival in the industry, promises more recent processors than are commonly available for notebooks. Just make sure you stock up on batteries or settle in next to an outlet. :)"

Comments

Don't get it

[Gilesx]

If I want to play an FPS, I want my 21" monitor, my 6 channel surround sound with booming bass and a nice mouse to move around - I just don't think the experience could translate so well to an LCD screen, tinny laptop speaker, and a pressure pad to move about. And it'd probably cost a hell of a lot more too.

I guess I'll just stick to using my laptop for pr0n when I'm away on business trips...

Re:Don't get it

[zakezuke]

If I want to play an FPS, I want my 21" monitor, my 6 channel surround sound with booming bass and a nice mouse to move around - I just don't think the experience could translate so well to an LCD screen, tinny laptop speaker, and a pressure pad to move about. And it'd probably cost a hell of a lot more too.

Call me silly, when I go FPS, for audio I go headphones. Laptops amazingly enough are much closer to you then your 21inch screen. I'm a full yard back from my 20inch and am perfectly comfortable. Most people i've observed choose a monitor placement that is roughly the same as a piece of paper letter sized at arms lengh.

I have played quake many a time on a laptop... pentium II class, headphones and a tiny trackball control. While there was no contast between it an my desktop system, I could pick it up and take it with me.

IT's a topsy-turvy world gone mad!

[CaptainCheese]

That's crazy. a first post that is relevant to the article AND more than five words long!

Quite frankly I agree. laptops are just not ideal for gaming, unless it's some slow moving turn based strategy thing or somesuch.

Power vs Cost

[asbestos_tophat]

1.) Fuel cell that will run on coffee
2.) OLED display that works
3.) games that don't suck
4.) video cards that don't suck

2 cents + =o)

except

[Anonymous Coward]

those companies listed just sell rebranded generic crap at a premium, why keep paying the middlemen ? i thought that was the whole point of this interweb cut out the hangers-on

professional use

[scheveningen]

The first time I saw a gaming labtop was during a meeting. Discussing CAD or visual simulation works fairly well on such machines!
It is great to see all you gamers drive the market, so I can work better.

We are high.

[Anonymous Coward]

The benefactors of the boom economy and the tech era have lost touch with reality. A 3000 dollar game machine? Get some perspective! Where can your head be if you would actually buy something like this. I mean, sure, you are rich compared to the rest of the world, but, thats not the issue, its that you choose to spend your supposedly valuable time playing video games on a hyper expensive yet inferior machine.
Looking on how the other 99% live maybe we should realize that our prosperity is an aberation, and use our money and time more wisely.

Re:Thin and Light??

[dasmegabyte]

It is just you. 6.5 is really fucking light for a laptop. It weighs less than a 2 liter bottle of soda, for chrissakes.

If 6.5 lbs is too heavy for you, methinks you need to bust your ass to the gym.