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Laptop Help

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Glavin

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Ok guys, I am having trouble finding a laptop that will be able to run recent and future games well. Considering I know nearly nothing about laptops, is there anything that you guys would recommend?

I have been looking at the Alienware Area-51m 7700, but some other people I have talked to said that they dont like alienware's.

I appreciate all of the help you guys can offer.

-The Glavin
 
alienware doesnt make their own laptops, they're just clevo's with an alien head on them.

the top gaming laptops right now are:
alienware area 51-m
iXPS gen2
Sager 9880
 
Price range?
Portability preference?
Screen size preference?

unfalliblekrutch has a good list.
I don't like the Alienware one 'cuz it uses a P4, which are very hot & not extremely fast.
You can usually buy ODM laptops (i.e. the model Clevo makes for Alienware) from some manufacturers, search for those!
 
My price range is hopefully under 2,500. But as for games and laptops, what exactly do I need to look for to run them well? Like ram and so forth.

Thanks for all of the help guys. 🙂


-The Glavin
 
Personally I would wait to find a Pentium M notebook with an ATI MOBILITY RADEON X800XT -- the best mobile GPU out there.
The Pentium M is very powerful and produces very little heat, which is not true of its big brother the Pentium 4. A P4 notebook like the Alienware will be HUGE and generate lots of heat.

Give Dell some time and they might update the XPS Gen 2 to a Mobility X800XT. I wouldn't spend the money for an XPS2 w/a GF 6800 Ultra right now, as it only has twelve pixel pipelines compared to the 16 pipes of the X800XT. BIG performance difference
 
is there that much of a difference between the radeon x800 and the radeon x700??

and a question for fbrdphreak:

when do you think a laptop with a pentium M and a radeon x800 will be out?
 
Originally posted by: Glavin
is there that much of a difference between the radeon x800 and the radeon x700??

and a question for fbrdphreak:

when do you think a laptop with a pentium M and a radeon x800 will be out?
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There is a big difference between the X800 & X700.
X800 has 12 pixel pipelines, X700 has 8(?). The X700 will play most modern games well at decent resolutions (1024x768 or 1280x1024), but the X800 will play them up to WUXGA resolution most of the time.

Unfortunately time will tell with the P-M & X800 laptops. Dell probably won't do a refresh of the XPS for several months. Alienware will probably be the first US supplier to use it, although I imagine they will use P4's. Sager might toss one out soon. I would say a reasonable estimate is 6 months.

Originally posted by: wiredspider
what about the laptops that have a 6800 in them? what would be the radeon equivilent?
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The ATI equivalent to an NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 is the X800. The Go 6800 is a 12-pipeline card, as is the X800. Comparing the regular Go 6800 the regular MR (Mobility Radeon) X800, I believe the X800 wins out. But the Go 6800 Ultra, a higher clocked version, beats the X800 from what I recall.
 
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