Any
serious gamer will tell you that if you want the very best computer for
gameplay – the machine that will have the best graphics card, the
fastest and finest tuned processor, the most memory, the least lag, etc.
– then you need to be gaming with a desktop computer. But that does not
mean that there are not plural laptops that are fast and powerful
enough to handle most any gaming challenge you throw at them. There are,
and we have hunted down some of them here for you to read about. Keep
in mind that you’re going to need to invest in a decent monitor and some
after-market speakers to really enhance your gaming experience, of
course, and maybe a keyboard and mouse and some other add-on
accessories, but you still can find decent gaming laptops at prices that
are, well, if not winners, at
Number one is no surprise. Alienware wins. Their M17x is about the best
stock gaming laptop you can buy. And while buying it is going to set
you back a hefty chunk, to the tune of nearly $1,700, we assume that if
you’re here, you’re serious about this kind of thing and willing to
spend on a machine of this quality. It comes boasting a 3.4GHz processor
with Turbo Boost 2.0, 6GB
DDR3 SDRAM and a 2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA video card. And these are only the
minimal specs! It weighs in at a hefty chunk itself, at almost ten
pounds. But despite being way heavy for a laptop, that is still easily
portable, meaning your games are ready to travel. And also the thing
just looks awesome – it glows up like the 4th of July, with colored
lights all over the body.
The
Falcon Northwest DRX may as well be called the “Cash Grabber,” as it
costs over three grand. So feel free to move along. But if you want to
know, it also has a 3.46 Ghz processor inside its expensive guts, and
that is blazing fast. The fastest we reviewed, in fact. So if money is
not an object, you may want to consider this baby. Hi-Def audio, 5 USB
ports… very nice. Over 12 pounds… not as nice. But you got this thing so
you could settle in and play some serious games, not so you could
sashay around town with a tiny little UltraBook, right?
The MSI GT70 gaming laptop weighs about 8 pounds yet sports a 17 inch
screen, not a bad weight to size ration, in the scheme of things. And it
runs 12GB of RAM standard, with a 2.3 gigahertz Intel Core processor
and plenty of memory (750 gigs standard). It will get the job done just
fine, but it will cost you upwards of $1,699.
Shave a few hundred bucks off of the M17x there and you can get
yourself the very able and versatile Asus G75VW. What an exciting name…
oh well. You will however be excited by the 16 GB of RAM that come
standard in this puppy! Match that with the 2.7 gigahertz Intel Core
processor and you can see that this is a fast moving gaming laptop, to
put it mildly. The speakers are rough, the screen resolution is good,
and at 8.65 pounds it’s neither remarkably heavy nor anywhere near
lightweight, but it’s a solid number 2 for your money.
We end this list for today with a gaming laptop that ain’t the fastest,
ain’t the prettiest, and ain’t really the best at anything, but it’s
good at everything and it costs only $600. The Gateway NV55S05u (whoa,
that’s a lot of 5s in that name) is no beauty queen. The body is kind of
a white plastic-looking… something. And performance-wise? Well, what do
you expect? How about a 1.5 Ghz processor, 6 gigs of RAM and 640
gigabytes of hard drive space standard. Wait a second, that’s not that
bad, actually! And with a fifteen and a half inch screen and weighing in
at only about 6 pounds, Gateway’s modest gaming laptop is quite
portable. While unlikely to satisfy the seriously dedicated gamer, this
computer may well be perfect for the newer devotees or for the gamer on a
budget. It’s not the $3,000 Falcon Northwest, but is the Falcon five
times better for its five times larger price tag? That is up to the
gamer.
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