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tarheel91 on 04 April 2009
greenmedic88 said:
So you're looking at about a $70 savings off a $1000, maybe a bit more. But if you ordered from a non-NC company like NewEgg, you wouldn't be paying sales tax anyway.

The rebates vary, but I've seen them go as high as $200-300 (for the top models) range, so keep an eye out once you know what you want to buy.

The Asus G50 is good enough to play any current games (X5 or X6 update). Should be fine for all 3D programs, etc. as well.

 

Yeah, if I can run CoD 4 on reasonable settings, that'd be all I need.  My brother has a Dell XPS 410 with a GeForce 8600GT graphics card.   All it really needs is a better graphics card and it'll really be able to do alot (Quad Core Processor with 4GB of RAM).  If I ever want to play something really taxing, I'll probably just do it on his computer.



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Theo on 04 April 2009

I bought a laptop with gaming in mind over a year ago.
2.2 Ghz intel core 2 Duo T7500
4 GB RAM
Nvidia Geforce GT 512mb 8600
15.6 inch screen 1280x800

But I never use it for gaming really. It runs most games fine but I just find the hot little lappy too unwieldy for gaming comfortably. I did set it up with a 19inch moniter screen so I could play games on that screen instead, or supreme Commander across both screens. Also have a blue-tooth keyboard.

For a good gaming laptop you'd want a 17 inch screen, but those things are heavy and a bitch to be haulin to college. I'd advise goin for a standard run of the mill lappy for work and browsin the internet, and spent your extra cash puttin together a nice desktop if you want to play big pc games.



tarheel91 on 04 April 2009
Theo said:
I bought a laptop with gaming in mind over a year ago.
2.2 Ghz intel core 2 Duo T7500
4 GB RAM
Nvidia Geforce GT 512mb 8600
15.6 inch screen 1280x800

But I never use it for gaming really. It runs most games fine but I just find the hot little lappy too unwieldy for gaming comfortably. I did set it up with a 19inch moniter screen so I could play games on that screen instead, or supreme Commander across both screens. Also have a blue-tooth keyboard.

For a good gaming laptop you'd want a 17 inch screen, but those things are heavy and a bitch to be haulin to college. I'd advise goin for a standard run of the mill lappy for work and browsin the internet, and spent your extra cash puttin together a nice desktop if you want to play big pc games.

 

I can't spend that much money. :/

All my extra money is going towards my next car.



Theo on 04 April 2009
tarheel91 said:
Theo said:
I bought a laptop with gaming in mind over a year ago.
2.2 Ghz intel core 2 Duo T7500
4 GB RAM
Nvidia Geforce GT 512mb 8600
15.6 inch screen 1280x800

But I never use it for gaming really. It runs most games fine but I just find the hot little lappy too unwieldy for gaming comfortably. I did set it up with a 19inch moniter screen so I could play games on that screen instead, or supreme Commander across both screens. Also have a blue-tooth keyboard.

For a good gaming laptop you'd want a 17 inch screen, but those things are heavy and a bitch to be haulin to college. I'd advise goin for a standard run of the mill lappy for work and browsin the internet, and spent your extra cash puttin together a nice desktop if you want to play big pc games.

 

I can't spend that much money. :/

All my extra money is going towards my next car.

 

My laptop costed 1200 euro ish over a year ago, (from dell) you can get similar spec laptops from them now for 700-800 euro but they don't put great GPU's into their inspirons anymore : ( I got 4 gigs of ram but that was too much and I've never used more than 2 when running any games. Half Life 2 all on full specs only took up 1.5gigs. But I chose xp instead of vista : D

I'm sure there's plenty of peeps here who'd know how to get more power for a lower price. Guys keep tellin me I never should have bought from dell : P



tarheel91 on 04 April 2009
Theo said:
tarheel91 said:
Theo said:
I bought a laptop with gaming in mind over a year ago.
2.2 Ghz intel core 2 Duo T7500
4 GB RAM
Nvidia Geforce GT 512mb 8600
15.6 inch screen 1280x800

But I never use it for gaming really. It runs most games fine but I just find the hot little lappy too unwieldy for gaming comfortably. I did set it up with a 19inch moniter screen so I could play games on that screen instead, or supreme Commander across both screens. Also have a blue-tooth keyboard.

For a good gaming laptop you'd want a 17 inch screen, but those things are heavy and a bitch to be haulin to college. I'd advise goin for a standard run of the mill lappy for work and browsin the internet, and spent your extra cash puttin together a nice desktop if you want to play big pc games.

 

I can't spend that much money. :/

All my extra money is going towards my next car.

 

My laptop costed 1200 euro ish over a year ago, (from dell) you can get similar spec laptops from them now for 700-800 euro but they don't put great GPU's into their inspirons anymore : ( I got 4 gigs of ram but that was too much and I've never used more than 2 when running any games. Half Life 2 all on full specs only took up 1.5gigs. But I chose xp instead of vista : D

I'm sure there's plenty of peeps here who'd know how to get more power for a lower price. Guys keep tellin me I never should have bought from dell : P

A minimum spec laptop for school would prob cost 600-700 dollars.  I can't afford to build a $800-$1000 gaming computer on top of that.

 



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okr on 04 April 2009

I bought the LG S510 two weeks ago and I'm very content. It's marketed as business notebook but has good enough specs to run all games I'm interested in (mainly strategy, RPGs, adventures). I bought this notebook for PC gaming only by the way, for all other things I use an iMac.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-S510.11766.0.html
(the site states display resolution 1440x900, glossy: yes, but my specific S510 model - called Colosimi - has an LED backlit nonglare 1280x800 display. This nonglare display is the main reason I bought this specific model).

As the S510 doesn't seem to be sold in USA, how about one of these with even better specs for gamers:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-MSI-Megabook-GT627-Gaming-Notebook.14601.0.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Gateway-P-7805u.14213.0.html

I can generally recommend www.notebookcheck.net. It's not only an excellent ressource site for internal and external reviews, but also features comparison lists of GPUs and a gaming performance list.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Comparison-of-Graphic-Cards.130.0.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html



ps3-sales! on 04 April 2009

lol my labtop cant even run battlefield 2



Currently own:

 

  • Ps4

 

Currently playing: Witcher 3, Walking Dead S1/2, GTA5, Dying Light, Tomb Raider Remaster, MGS Ground Zeros

thetonestarr on 05 April 2009

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tarheel91 on 06 April 2009

Another question I had. Is building your own laptop any cheaper than buying one? It seems to have fewer advantages than building your own desktop.



thetonestarr on 06 April 2009

It's still cheaper, but far more difficult and I personally don't recommend it to the inexperienced.



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