Steve
So yeah,
I need one under $1000 cuz thats all I have, after selling my old one. I would prefer one with at least 4-6 GB RAM, and a good graphics card.
I want to run COD 4, World at War, MW2, Left for Dead 2, Bad Company 2, and GTA San Andreas without any or very less lag. I don't really care about hard drive space, cause I have a external one.
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Umm... that might be tough to do with under $1000. The best thing I could suggest is just buy a regular laptop for other purposes and build a gaming desktop. It will be easier to upgrade and save you money in the long run. Not to mention that gaming desktops are usually all around better so it will probably be cheaper in the short run too when you consider getting an equal quality gaming laptop and desktop.
Umm... that might be tough to do with under $1000. The best thing I could suggest is just buy a regular laptop for other purposes and build a gaming desktop. It will be easier to upgrade and save you money in the long run. Not to mention that gaming desktops are usually all around better so it will probably be cheaper in the short run too when you consider getting an equal quality gaming laptop and desktop.
I'm looking for a good gaming laptop under $1000?
John Q
http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Dell%20XPS%20M1530%20Laptop%20Computer:1995204515:page=details;_ylt=Ap5xhmu.jcf9fy31_gTxojMambsF?clink=dmss//ctx=sc:cnotebook,c:cnotebook,mid:57,pid:1995204515,pdid:57,pos:0
Is it good enough? I prefer something sleek and light with a lot of battery power, wifi, and good gaming. Is there anyother laptop you would prefer? Under $1000
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The Dell XPS line is a premium line that makes it an excellent laptop...
However that one is not a gaming laptop by any stretch of the imagination. It does have an 8400 that is miles better than the typical Intel integrated chipset 3100 graphics. You will be able to play Sims 2 and other casual games with it, but not WoW or Crysis etc. For any main-line 2007/2008 game you will need at least an 8800M GT or greater.
Check this list:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html
There has been a lot of bad advice because few people are aware of the fact that graphics chips in laptops are even more expensive than they already seem! That is because for laptop graphics, they take a well known desktop chip model number and advertise the same number in a laptop and people assume they are getting th same chip. But they aren't. It is either running at half the speed or it is actually based on another chip lower down in the line with less shaders in it etc.
So if people tell you that for example an 8800M GT is overkill in a laptop, they are thinking of the 8800 GT in a desktop which is several times faster! Note that single "M" in the laptop model number - makes all the difference in the world!
And then people seem to think that laptops can somehow violate the laws of physics (i.e. reality) in that modern games require advanced graphics chips and those chips have to generate a lot of heat to function. So if the laptop is not designed well, it either overheats and crashes or else the chip goes into power management mode and slows itself down to an acceptable temperature. So that laptop graphics chip that is already running at half the speed of its desktop counterpart is now running even slower all the time due to heat... To get rid of the heat requires good design and some heavy copper. Yup, the laptop manufacturers compete on low weight and sure don't want more heavy copper inside so they just depend on power management to keep slowing the chip down and people's cluelessness over the whole situation...
It might be a valuable experience to look at the design spec and construction of these laptops designed for games and see how close you can get to some good cooling in a typical consumer laptop:
Dell XPS M1730:
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1730?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1730wow?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
Falcon:
http://www.falcon-nw.com/
Voodoo:
http://www.voodoopc.com/#/productsenvy
Alienware:
http://www.alienware.com/products/notebook-computers.aspx
Sager:
http://www.sagernotebook.com/default.php
The Dell XPS line is a premium line that makes it an excellent laptop...
However that one is not a gaming laptop by any stretch of the imagination. It does have an 8400 that is miles better than the typical Intel integrated chipset 3100 graphics. You will be able to play Sims 2 and other casual games with it, but not WoW or Crysis etc. For any main-line 2007/2008 game you will need at least an 8800M GT or greater.
Check this list:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html
There has been a lot of bad advice because few people are aware of the fact that graphics chips in laptops are even more expensive than they already seem! That is because for laptop graphics, they take a well known desktop chip model number and advertise the same number in a laptop and people assume they are getting th same chip. But they aren't. It is either running at half the speed or it is actually based on another chip lower down in the line with less shaders in it etc.
So if people tell you that for example an 8800M GT is overkill in a laptop, they are thinking of the 8800 GT in a desktop which is several times faster! Note that single "M" in the laptop model number - makes all the difference in the world!
And then people seem to think that laptops can somehow violate the laws of physics (i.e. reality) in that modern games require advanced graphics chips and those chips have to generate a lot of heat to function. So if the laptop is not designed well, it either overheats and crashes or else the chip goes into power management mode and slows itself down to an acceptable temperature. So that laptop graphics chip that is already running at half the speed of its desktop counterpart is now running even slower all the time due to heat... To get rid of the heat requires good design and some heavy copper. Yup, the laptop manufacturers compete on low weight and sure don't want more heavy copper inside so they just depend on power management to keep slowing the chip down and people's cluelessness over the whole situation...
It might be a valuable experience to look at the design spec and construction of these laptops designed for games and see how close you can get to some good cooling in a typical consumer laptop:
Dell XPS M1730:
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1730?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1730wow?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
Falcon:
http://www.falcon-nw.com/
Voodoo:
http://www.voodoopc.com/#/productsenvy
Alienware:
http://www.alienware.com/products/notebook-computers.aspx
Sager:
http://www.sagernotebook.com/default.php
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