Thoughts on Gaming Laptops

[Tamu]

Toshiba is releasing a new gaming laptop this week and I wanted to see what opinions you all may have on this system. I am looking at buying this laptop so that when I have to travel I will be able to take my multibox team on the road with me.

http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/pdet.to?poid=452634

From looking at the specs I think this laptop can perform as well (or maybe better) than the desktop I am currently using. I have a Q6600 2.4 GHz, GeForce 8800GTS (512MB), 6 GB RAM.

I'm not sure how the video card in the laptop (NVIDIA® GeForce® GTS 250M with 1GB RAM) compares to my GeForce 8800GTS.

I also am looking at the Alienware laptops, but I do not see one available yet that has the Intel Core i7 processor.

Any comments / recommendations are appreciated.

Thanks!

[Stealthy]

A mate of mine just emailed me and told me he's getting one of these as well.

There's a fairly good review here:

http://www.laptopmag.com/review/lapt...05.aspx?page=1

They basically say that its a very well spec'd laptop, but there are other laptops with better video cards out there (although presumably not with i7 processors).

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Shane

[Bovidae]

That is a very well specced machine. I approve :P

[Xtremepayne]

They look good. my only concern is where they say discrete graphics. Which leads me to believe that your graphics memory comes from system memory. My point is that if its what I think it is that means the graphics processor may be built into the board and if it fails is not replaceable.
That is why I went with a video card laptop. Companies like Sager, OCZ, Alienware/Dell-XPS, etc make those sort of systems. In my case if the video card fails its possible for me to get a card to replace it. It had alot to with my choice. I bring this up because of the price I saw for the one you linked too. 1899.99 for that price you could get a laptop with either SLI or Crossfire.
What is nice is that if you go out there you can have one of those companies customer build your system to the way you want it. Its how I did mine. Mine is Ati 3870s in Crossfire and upgraded the memory after I got it to 4gigs. While mine is only a 2.24GHZ the CPU can be upgraded to a quad core. You can save yourself alot of dough if you willing to do some of the upgrades yourself.
But I will say the spec on the one your looking at looks like it could get the job done. What might also help you in your choice is going to http://forum.notebookreview.com/ and go check out what they have to say about the laptop your looking at. This site had been a great help to my making a choice. Hopefully it will for you.

[Obsidian7]

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7587_102...hreadID=191832

this will help a bit about discrete graphics . Intergated video cards are the ones you do not want to have

that is a nice laptop right within my budget.

[Ogloo]

dang i like that laptop, makes me think, i could sell my i7 boss computer and buy that, for more portability.. .... hummm

[Moorea]

too bad they use a GTS 250M in there otherwise it's be perfect (1920x1200 for the screen is great/minimum for 4x/5x)

[Tamu]

Thanks all for your input... much appreciated!

-T

[Obsidian7]

This may be a old news now but do anyone have a good info on a really good net notebook for gaming other then the MX11 so far I'm leaning toward getting one for checking my ALTs and Auction house.

[Akoko]

You'd probably want to avoid a laptop for multiboxing.