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The Best Gaming Laptop Money Can Buy
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."
You can get one on eBay for like $6.50, with Tetris. What else do you need?
How about something that will run games I actually want to play?
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.
Does it not basically come down to FPS and compatibility?
If the game runs smooth and gets good FPS than nothing else matters
I have Vista and it runs fine but not at the release, but I choose to run XP to get that extra 10-15 fps even though it barely feels different. I am a PC gamer and was there for the fiasco that Vista was, with punkbuster never working right, bad drivers, slow fps and overall incompatibility with certain hardware. I can tell you as a real gamer and not the Tux Racing gamers around here that vast majority of the problems have been solved. It is very simple, hardware gets cheaper and over time the specs will catch up to Vista; I loathe the expensive Vista laptops my buddies have because it runs great but I am not gonna spend that kind of money until it gets cheaper like anything.
Go to Fatwallet.com/Slickdeals.net to look for a good gaming rig and get an honest opinion on what you get for your money, these guys are the experts at bang per buck. Your best bet for a good gaming rig that is cheap is to wait for a deal to popup checking everyday, sometimes it is a price mistake you might get a $400 laptop or other price matches.
Go visit any gaming forum and you would have seen the massive problems with Vista and games in the beginning, over time these complaints have dissipated and things are running normally again. The hardware makers and gaming companies took notice to the complaints over Vista and stepped it up with more support.
The article is kind of crap as it describes to use 64bit Vista but any gamer knows that is a stupid move right now for majority of games, also the gaming site is from .AU and no offense to the Australians but they have the most draconian prices for hardware, software, ISP and everything around there goes against Silicon Valley(whatever that means); not very credible.
Laptops are a STUPID idea for games.
If you want to play a game on a laptop, that instantly means you need a very high end machine. High end laptops are a total rip-off. They're approximately three times the price of their desktop equivalent. They're also sealed devices which are not upgradable (VERY BAD if you're a gamer, because that means your incredibly expensive machine will now only be useful for about a year). You can't upgrade the CPU or even upgrade the graphics card. Even the a very high end gaming laptop is well off the performance of even a fairly average gaming desktop at less than half the price.
I presume the only reason the poster requested a laptop is for portability. I would suggest that even a compact portable desktop machine is a much better buy. Yes, it's not going to be battery powered, but it will be FAR cheaper, quicker and more upgradable than any laptop.