Thoughts on Gaming Laptops

[Hivetyrant]

I generally stick with the Alienware laptop's but even though I'm a fierce Dell fanboy, when it comes to the gaming laptops, if your prepared to spend the money, you probably won't be disappointed.

That laptop looks pretty sweet and for the price, will give you great performance.

My only advice when it comes to expensive laptops is just don't finance!

[Obsidian7]

No I wouldn't want to multi-box with it but it would be good to be able to still play my single Alt that I used to gather resources and place things on the Auction house even without having a bog down system.

after reading the reviews I think I will go with the alien ware(Dell) but with the I7 CPU upgrade

http://codamon.com/2010/06/alienware...timus-upgrade/

[remanz]

For those who have extensive experiences with high end gaming laptops, how would the machine's performance change over time? Is it just getting slower and slower with time ?

I was always NOT happy with the way laptop performed. So never put up with a high end laptop. I did learn it from other people's experience though. My friend who bought an alienware customized laptop years back. and he basically just chooses the most expensive parts with every option. End up costing more than 3k to build it. And yet alienware took no consideration of the heat problem. They just jam all the parts into a this small box with no additional way to cool it. The laptop runs fine for like a month. Then the heat problem got so severe, and it became barely useable.

My personal experience with my average laptop. It was fine for like a year. Then it got slower and slower (due to heat, I am guessing here).

How can hardware degregate over time ? it didn't crush. I reload the OS to factory default. and it is still slow. The only way I can think of is that the fan got clobbered by dust. and the heat cannot be dumped. And the CPU is configured to protect itself. So it downgrades by itself.

[Hivetyrant]

I still run an XPS M1730 and it runs like a champ to this day (had it for two years)

It certainly runs hot, and the components are a bit dated, but I still bought it with the best parts I could at the time (Extreme Intel/8800M SLI) and can't fault it.

[Lax]

For what it's worth, I got my wife an Asus G73 from best buy and it seems to handle 5-boxing better than my usual multiboxing desktop (which I need to have a box fan next to because my beast runs hot). The laptop is a bit bulky, but the big fat fan compartment in the back seems worth it for multiboxing, and I feel less heat 5-boxing on her laptop, than I do with my Dell laptop just working or even playing 1 instance of WoW.

$1250 i7 laptop that works great for 5-boxing. No Blu Ray but whatever, I wasn't looking for that. Actually I bought it for her for mother's day, she just lets me borrow it to multibox sometimes

[Elektroz]

I bought an m11x a few months ago with the core 2 duo, and it certainly is the best computer I've ever owned. Some days I arena and raid on the couch while watching TV, and other days I play while the laptop is connected to my 24" screen. This thing can handle pretty much anything. I would caution you on the i5/i7 however, since those will make the laptop extremely hot.

I tried to multibox 5 wows on it, and it worked fine for the raid weekly. It certainly handles 1 WoW without any problem on max settings.

[Owltoid]

For what it's worth, I got my wife an Asus G73 from best buy and it seems to handle 5-boxing better than my usual multiboxing desktop (which I need to have a box fan next to because my beast runs hot). The laptop is a bit bulky, but the big fat fan compartment in the back seems worth it for multiboxing, and I feel less heat 5-boxing on her laptop, than I do with my Dell laptop just working or even playing 1 instance of WoW.

$1250 i7 laptop that works great for 5-boxing. No Blu Ray but whatever, I wasn't looking for that. Actually I bought it for her for mother's day, she just lets me borrow it to multibox sometimes

Wow, $1250 for that?! Seems like a great deal. I had no idea that powerful of a laptop is that cheap these days.

[Gurblash]

Quite honestly for the price you cannot beat the power of Asus. They make incredible laptops.

[remanz]

For what it's worth, I got my wife an Asus G73 from best buy and it seems to handle 5-boxing better than my usual multiboxing desktop (which I need to have a box fan next to because my beast runs hot). The laptop is a bit bulky, but the big fat fan compartment in the back seems worth it for multiboxing, and I feel less heat 5-boxing on her laptop, than I do with my Dell laptop just working or even playing 1 instance of WoW.

$1250 i7 laptop that works great for 5-boxing. No Blu Ray but whatever, I wasn't looking for that. Actually I bought it for her for mother's day, she just lets me borrow it to multibox sometimes

Man, this is like the best deal by far for now . Alienware m11 or m17 run for like what 1900 !!?? with a spec far more worse than this.

ATI 5870, isn't that the best mobile GPU on the market ?

TOo bad I just bought a lenovo laptop Idealpad y560

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/c...EFE41A7A5D7192

With some serious coupon it came out $1100 with 8 GB ram, ATI5730, 15 inch.

[remanz]

THere you have it, the same links as above.

Put in coupon code USPRETHINK it will knock another 100 bucks off. Goddamn Lenovo lol. I just bought it for 1100 a few days back now it is 949.

i7 720 QM CPU + 8GMB ram + ATI 5730 1GB for $949

Edit: I haven't tried. BUT I highly doubt this can 5 box (achieve a decent enough performance) though. It may run 5 wows. But it is gonna be slow and probably have to set all 5 clients on minimal settings. I was not impressed with a single wow instance performance. It can't even get above 50 fps in dalaran with 1 wow. I also tested starcraft 2. Sure it can run with max settings. But in order to play SC2 smoothly, probably best just set to medium -high settings. The laptop runs pretty hot also while gaming. you will need a cooler. All in all 949 is not a bad deal i say.