A little background: I took a job transfer from a 7-4 office job to a shift position in the field. The job is in a remote location 3000 miles away from home. I am gone for two weeks at a time before heading home for two weeks of downtime. I would like to buy a laptop to help ease the pain in the "crown room" at the airport, something to game around with at night, and possibly mess with some light home video editing. I guess I am looking for something that I could set up and use almost as a desktop machine at both work(off-time) and home. The only time I would use it in transit would be during a 5 hour layover, where I have a desk, power, and a wireless connection at the airport. Both flights to and from work are red eyes and I really have no interest in using it during the flight. I have typically played flight simulators and FPS but have leaned heavily to the FPS in recent years. I tend to be fairly happy with what most people would call "moderate to high" graphics settings. I typically am very happy to run at 10X7 with graphics set to high. I find that as long as the game iteself plays smoothly I am not extremely picky but do enjoy everything I can squeeze out of a card.
I am flexible with battery life, size, weight, and speakers. (headphones do me just fine) I would like something that would allow me to play new games smoothly at moderate settings. I have looked at both the Area-51 and Dell's gaming machine. Both systems look like they can pretty much rip up anything that comes in their path, but how much am I paying to have an alien head and/or some molded plastic on the cover?
Is it possible to get a solid machine for under 2 grand?
Who else produces a "gaming machine" worth looking at?
I don't want to open an entirely different can of worms but who has the advantage in mobile graphic cards right now?
I really didn't mean this to sound like the personals but I have learned from watching and reading that this is one of the best group of people to turn to.
Thanks,
I am flexible with battery life, size, weight, and speakers. (headphones do me just fine) I would like something that would allow me to play new games smoothly at moderate settings. I have looked at both the Area-51 and Dell's gaming machine. Both systems look like they can pretty much rip up anything that comes in their path, but how much am I paying to have an alien head and/or some molded plastic on the cover?
Is it possible to get a solid machine for under 2 grand?
Who else produces a "gaming machine" worth looking at?
I don't want to open an entirely different can of worms but who has the advantage in mobile graphic cards right now?
I really didn't mean this to sound like the personals but I have learned from watching and reading that this is one of the best group of people to turn to.
Thanks,
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