$2500-3000 Budget: Need Good Spring Gaming Laptop

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 25 Aug 2006, 15:54

And DX10 cards come out in about 2 months. the Geforce 8 series.

Lindir The Green · Post by **Lindir The Green** » 25 Aug 2006, 16:16

You don't need to get a DX10 card now though, just make sure that the laptop has a PCI express slot.

Oh, and btw, why are we supposed to avoid Dell? Through extensive research, I have found that Dell has the highest performance / price ratio for mid end gaming/media center laptops. And that will go up if / when they switch to conroe from their current whatever-dual-core-CPU-intel-made-right-before-conroe

espylaub · Post by **espylaub** » 25 Aug 2006, 17:02

Just out of personal experience. I know 4 people who bought Dell notebooks, they've all given them back. Noisy, heavy, lousy battery life, horrible finishing, packed with preinstalled crap that nobody needs. But that was 3 years ago, maybe they're better now?

Lindir The Green · Post by **Lindir The Green** » 25 Aug 2006, 17:26

Well, I have heard good stuff about current dell laptops, and, most importantly, they have good system specs at low prices:

Copy/Pasted:

E1505 Dual Core Qty 1
Intel├é┬« Core├óÔÇ×┬ó Duo Proc T2500 (2GHz/667MHz/2 X 1MB L2 Cache), Genuine Windows├é┬« XP Media Center Edition 2005 Unit Price $1,570.00
Catalog Number: 29 E1505RFC1
Module Description Show Details
Inspiron E1505 Intel├é┬« Core├óÔÇ×┬ó Duo Proc T2500 (2GHz/667MHz/2 X 1MB L2 Cache)
Operating System Genuine Windows├é┬« XP Media Center Edition 2005
LCD Panel 15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA Display with TrueLife├óÔÇ×┬ó
Memory FREE 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 Dimm
Video Card 256MB NVIDIA├é┬« GeForce├óÔÇ×┬óGo 7300 TurboCache
Hard Drive FREE! 120GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
Network Card and Modem Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
Adobe Software Adobe├é┬« Acrobat├é┬« Reader 7.0
Combo/DVD+RW Drives FREE 8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability
Sound Options Integrated Audio
Wireless Networking Cards Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 Internal Wireless
Office Productivity Software (Pre-Installed) No productivity suite- Includes Microsoft Works 8. DOES NOT INCLUDE MS WORD
Anti-Virus/Security Suite (Pre-installed) PC-cillin Internet Security: AntiVirus, Firewall, Spyware removal 36-months
Primary Battery 85 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
Carrying Cases Nylon Backpack Carrying Case
Hardware Warranty 3Yr Ltd Warr,At-Home Service,and HW Warr Support plus Nights and Weekends
Dial-Up Internet Access 6 Months America Online Internet Access Included
Miscellaneous Award Winning Service, Support
Free SKIN Promotion 15 - Free Promotion for 15 inch Skin
Future Operating Systems Windows Vista├óÔÇ×┬ó Capable
Dell Digital Entertainment Starter pack- Basic and trial products from Corel and Yahoo
TOTAL:$1,570.00

And, yeah, it has some preloaded crap. But that's easy to delete.

Muzic · Post by **Muzic** » 25 Aug 2006, 19:33

Sweet jesus... yeah id go with a dell. My dad's work lappy isnt exactly 'awsome'. But on low settings i never go above 30% :D!! Even if im directly staring into a big asplosion...... What the above poster said is a good lappy.

unpossible · Post by **unpossible** » 25 Aug 2006, 19:38

can i just say, it makes my skin crawl/brain implode to think that there are laptops that'll wipe the floor with my pc as badly as these would.

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 25 Aug 2006, 19:48

Take solace in the fact that for how fast laptop X goes, you can buy or build a desktop PC that is more powerful and/or cheaper, always.

drakfyre · Post by **drakfyre** » 05 Sep 2006, 09:14

http://www.sagernotebook.com

Way more bang for your buck than Dell. Shipping times are usually not quite as quick as Dell in my experience, but the machines are powerful, cheap, and the support is actually great. I currently am running a top-of-the-line NP5950 and it's just awesome. That being said, SLI MAY be overkill for TA Spring, I am beginning to suspect that it might actually run better on just one GPU rather than two after having played with some settings.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 05 Sep 2006, 13:02

Or try asus...

What are you staring at, no links for you lazy people..

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 05 Sep 2006, 14:57

Gaming and Laptop do not go in the same sentence just yet, despite what any marketing hype might tell you. Give it a year or two.

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 05 Sep 2006, 20:45

Unless you get a $20000 alienware one lol...

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$2500-3000 Budget: Need Good Spring Gaming Laptop

Sager notebook, nuff said