Like the poster above, I also agree with Duncan's post. My old roommate bought a Sager gaming laptop for school/gaming 2 years ago. He thought it was a great idea at the time until 6 months ago when his laptop starting having chronic overheating problems. I can't speak for any other gaming laptops out there, but if you do choose to go down that route, I do not suggest getting a 17 inch behemoth. His laptop was ridiculously large and heavy that it made carrying it in his backpack+notebooks an absolute dread. In addition to being a complete pain in the ass for him to carry around school, even at the lowest fan settings, that laptop was loud as heck. Despite the ridiculous loudness of his laptop, the thing still overheated like crazy even after a thorough dusting. Fast forward to today, and the heat issues he had with his laptop have rendered any games unplayable because it constantly crashes from overheating. Nowadays, the guy walks around school with a netbook and sits at home playing on a decent $1000 desktop he had me build him for gaming and video editing.
So if I went that route, who wants to help build me a desktop? Ill feed you all the lumpia you can eat!!!
Appreciate the ideas. Dont think Ima do the fix up my desktop route only because I want a good portable laptop for when I am out and about. So looks like a Asus vs Alienware. Do you guys who mentioned upgrading the desktop have a tiebreaker opinion?
This deal is looking pretty sweet, but I'm still waiting for black friday. It's for the alienware m14x, which I would guess should have no problems playing most games on a tv 3x its size. I won't type more because I might convince myself to pull trigger right now. http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3566526
Just buy an XBox. I'll never understand why anyone would want a laptop with a 17" monitor. The battery is gone in like 3 hours if you spend $100 extra for the best battery. Then its heavy as ****. The point of a laptop is to take it anywhere and not worry about battery power.
Cyber Monday. The point of a laptop is portability. I have a 17-inch laptop that's essentially a portable desktop.
gaming laptop is an oxymoron. The good pc games of today(bf3, witcher 2 etc...) will not run in high setting with the high end gaming laptops. You are wasting thousands of dollars on a big bulky machine that doesn't do what it is advertised to do well. If you want to properly game than upgrade your desktop and buy a sub $1000 laptop that is decent with multimedia. Plus they cram so much into the case of those "gaming" laptops they usually have horrible airflow. Thus the life expectancy of the laptop is shortened. Its a 2000+ dollar laptop. It better last long. Your just wasting too much money with one of those gaming laptops.
My HP Dv6 will run Skyrim on ultra flawlessly and it's not bulky at all. It also only cost me $700 with a 2 year warranty.
Are you seriously comparing XBox graphics with what you can do on a good PC? Also can you play Xbox at the airport or the train? Not that I would buy a gaming laptop either, I agree with those that said $500 laptop + $1500 PC + $100 DSi, for most of my needs.
