Gaming Laptop

[skace]

Hi all,

I am looking for a high-end laptop that would work for gaming / lanning easily. I have gone places with my huge tower before and it is not fun! Now there is 2 other things along side this laptop I have been considering: 1) A very small lan case 2) a small LCD screen to hook up to the lan case. The laptop would rock except I wouldn't have any upgradability plan and getting it high-end would probably cost an arm and a leg.

Has anyone else tried this? Or have a lan type PC that they think is very easy to take on the road. I really want a laptop but just not sure I can justify the cost with no upgrade plan.

 

[jaywallen]

Hello, skace.

Hmmm. I don't think upgrades (other than RAM or bigger / additional drives) on any computer is as justifiable from a cost effectiveness standpoint as many people seem to think they are. I think most of us upgrade because we want to diddle with stuff.

Dell and IBM are producing some notebooks which have large, very high res screens and decent graphics subsystems with as much as 32 MB of video memory on board. They're still no match for a real gaming rig, but they'll do for old guys with slow wits and reflexes (like me).

IBM and Compaq are both making some of those "legacy free" boxes that have form factors that would be a lot easier to cart around than a full-sized tower. Hooking them up at the destination should be lots easier, too. I don't know whether or not this form factor would be more cost effective than a notebook. As a matter of fact, I don't recall seeing any of these so far that would make good gaming machines. The ones I've looked at tended to be kind of minimalist in that direction.

I understand the desire to spend the money well. I bought a Dell Inspiron 7500 a little over a year ago, when it was a brand new design. It was touted as a "desktop replacement", by the stupid industry rags as well as by Dell itself. It cost nearly $5,000. They stopped selling them more than six months ago. It's been replaced in the product line by a unit that has a CPU with twice the speed, and four times the video memory -- which costs half as much! On top of all that, it's ugly.

Oh well, I guess it matches me. Old, slow and unprepossessing.

Hope you have a good time spending your bucks and boosting the economy!

Regards,
Jim

 

[KpocAlypse]

Go with a small light Lan(hell build you own for that matter) case and a seperate monitor(cheap LCD??), putting all that case into a laptop for gaming is kinda bad.
Now if you do a lot of regualar computing on the go, fly some airlines, want a portable DVD player for trips, and or you don't have access to AC power, then i could kinda see a laptop, just for Lanning, uh, no... But thats just my 2 cents.