Thoughts on Gaming Laptops

[thefunk]

Same spec as above but different country: £1680, that's 2.5k in dollars....


I'm moving

edit: link:
http://www.asuslaptop.co.uk/proddeta...d=G73JH-TZ008V

It would probably be cheaper to buy it in the states, and air-freight it over. We get hammered on pricing in the UK.

[mikekim]

Same spec as above but different country: £1680, that's 2.5k in dollars....


I'm moving

edit: link:
http://www.asuslaptop.co.uk/proddeta...d=G73JH-TZ008V

It would probably be cheaper to buy it in the states, and air-freight it over. We get hammered on pricing in the UK.

remember when you buy from the states, you need to add on sales tax, then shipping and then VAT, when it hits the UK customs.

[Obsidian7]

Just quick update I got the MX11 from dell with i7 cpu and I op to get SSD best money I spent also I can take that thing almost anywhere and it runs really smooth now to work on my new desktop unit

[Multibocks]

I dont like gaming laptops based on their bulk and weight. I have an alienware laptop that cost a lot of money and I rarely use it. Just too heavy/hot, but it ran games pretty well.

[sonic777]

I have to admit when I see the words "gaming" and "laptop" put together I used to cring. Now, I have a laptop that is not classified as a "gaming" laptop and it multiboxes just fine with 5 accounts.

I was in need of a nice travel laptop and ran down to BestBuy one day, found that they had released a new i7 that week (BestBuy offers large discounts on new that week computers FYI) so I purchased that laptop.

The Toshiba Satellite A505-S6033 has a fingerprint issue where it's shiny and soaks up fingerprints, fixed it with skinit.com with a nice dragon image. Once I did that, I had to test it out as a gaming laptop, upgraded to 6gb ram and BAM let the multiboxing roll on, coffee shops, parks (g4 connection), and anywhere I damn well please that has G3/4 available.

Cost of the PC when I caught it onsale 850.00+ warranty and then additional memory, still under 1100 for a traveling mega power house.

I'm just saying that laptops are catching up to the original posters of this topic and manufacturers are producing systems that are equal to gaming systems without the "gaming" price. BTW, Toshiba has their gaming laptop out and some versions are not as powerful as the one I purchased but have an additional 500.00US added to the price tag over the cost of my completed package.

Compare mine to the gaming machines out there and you will see there is very little that I can complain about.

Here's to being frugal!!