When console gamers whine about the constant upgrades being too difficult to keep up with, PC gamers just chuckle under their breath and try their best to humor them. There’s something new every day, and you know that if you don’t get the absolute best gaming laptop or PC on the market today, it’s going to be obsolete by tomorrow. All we can really do is sigh; that’s the price you pay when you have a real passion for gaming.
With that in mind, here are a couple of the best gaming notebooks of 2008…
Best Performance
Alienware Area-51 m15x
The m15x may surprise you. It’s basically a top of the line gaming PC crammed into a notebook. The system boasts an Intel Core 2 Extreme X9000 processor and Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX graphics, and it’s equipped with a nice, sharp, fifteen and a half inch screen. It’s ultra light for portability, and… it looks really, really cool, with six lighting zones. This is why they call themselves “Alienware”; with the LED lit keyboard and touchpad, it looks more like the controls of an alien spacecraft than a gaming laptop.
The downside is the stiff price tag. Take a deep breath and sit down before we tell you:
$5000
Even if the m15x is basically the best laptop rig out there, and it’s not going obsolete anytime soon, the price tag really seems to limit its audience to the super rich, or people willing to take a second job just to play video games. Kind of a shame, really, but if you’re willing to spend that much on a gaming rig, you really can’t do much better. This is for the most discerning (and financially comfortable) gamers out there, but it is worth the price if you can afford it.
Best Performance… on a Budget
Gateway P-6831FX
Now this is more like it. At just over $1300, the Gateway P-6831FX is a solid rig for any gamer without a trust fund. The P-6831FX looks like the similar and somewhat more powerful P-171XL FX Edition, but costs about half as much, and still offers high powered graphics. The monitor is large and crisp, and it comes with plenty of ports for multimedia connectivity.
The rig features an Intel Core 2 Duo 5450 CPU 1.67 GHz processor, 3GB DDR2 RAM, 250 GB HDD 5400 rpm, and a 17” screen. Really, this is the kind of performance you might expect of a machine costing three times this much.
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THis is so cool
Try this:
In-between price with TOP OF THE LINE performance… I buy all my machines from gamepc.com, because I’m a whore for over-the-top performance and a sucker for great customer service.
around $3,500:
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17″, Quad Core, 4gb DDR3, RAID0 (yes, raid on a laptop), Dual ATI Radeon HD 3870 Graphics w/ Built-In 512MB (or single 9800M GTX w/ 1024MB if you prefer), etc etc etc.
http://www.gamepc.com/shop/custom.asp?rig=ms1719
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So this Pc can play runescape, rumbler fighter and stuff like that with no lag at all? I would so get that.
r u sure the alien ware new m17 is the best labtop cause it looks amazin but how about other gaming labtops from like cyberpower, falcon northwest, velocity, dell, vodoo pc and many other gaming companies. how do u determine the best ou would it be better to build my own
Yeah because spending $5k on a laptop versus $500 & less on a console makes so much sense. And needless to say you are not going to get the consistent game-oriented frame rates (esp at 1080p) as you would on a PS3.
It’s your money though, do whatever you want.
@ Dylan
The thing is, when we’re done gaming we can close the game and surf the web, watch movies, do email, and everything else you can do on a computer. I can pick up my gaming system and go sit on my couch or anywhere in my house and surf the web.
The point being, you get a lot more than just the ability to play games when you buy a PC. When you get a gaming PC you also have a super fast computer that launches applications and handles multi-tasking far better than regular PCs.
Just sayin.