Reccomend a good gaming laptop

[dead8left]

Moving away to uni soon, and I need a decent laptop, one with good battery life for doing work on and use in lectures etc. but with a good graphics/video card, good enough to run L4D and GMOD etc.

I will have about £1500 so money isn't much of an issue, I would be greatful for any help you can give me! Thanks guys :)

Inb4 buy a PC instead, needs to be a laptop for reasons above.

[Darkness]

Inb4 buy a PC instead, needs to be a laptop for reasons above.
noted.

buy a PC instead. You cannot have a long lifed gaming laptop. It just cant be done. If you INSIST on having a laptop. Get two. One with minimal everything that can be used for doing work and have an extremely long life. And one that can sit on top of your desk (effectively a tiny screened, expensive desktop with worse parts that you pay more for).

But, my suggestion is the following. Get 1 laptop, 1 desktop. 1500 pounds is a lot of money. I built a very very very nice gaming desktop for only around 1200 bucks. So with 1500 pounds you could get both a very nice desktop for gaming and a light, very long lifed laptop for work.

[Infest0125]

Well I'm not sure how much 1500 pounds translates to in American money, but I have a Dell XPS M1530 and it cost around 1300 dollars I believe. It runs games incredibly smooth and can play them on medium settings at the least. Try looking into this.

[Darkness]

Well I'm not sure how much 1500 pounds translates to in American money
1 British pound = 1.4822 U.S. dollars (so google says right now)

so 1500 British pounds = 2,223.30 U.S. dollars (using same google calculator).

Seeing these numbers for myself, I most thoroughly suggest my opinion above (2 comps, 1 laptop 1 desktop). You quite have the money for it.

I'm not sure of anywhere to build your own laptop, but search around, Dell probly has good work laptops.

For desktop I'd suggest:
g = GB/GHZ here
Windows XP 32bit
4g RAM
ATI4870
Mobo of choice (I have an asus board)
processor of choice (I have 3.16g dual core)
PSU of over 500 for possible future double up on video cards
CPU fan of choice

[Easton Dark]

Well since you have that much to spend, may I recommend the laptop im using right now. It's an HP Windows Vista dv7 notebook PC.

I didn't even have to upgrade it for it to be a great gaming laptop (not what it was designed to be), and I think it was 1300 dollars (about 950 euro I'm guessing) or something close to that. For all that I have crazy amounts of memory for everything I do and am able to play Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, and any other game that came before them (even CRYSIS) with no trouble on VERY GOD DAMN HIGH SETTINGS! (This isn't alienware)

It can definatly be your gaming PC, and as for work I have run multiple programs on it for hours (even on high power the battery lasts an hour or two so I havn't tried the power saver plan) with no trouble or crashes. If your looking for a Laptop it's definatly this one.

-Dark

p.s. Bought it last year so you may not find it in retail stores, saw-wee

[Darkness]

I highly doubt that. There is no battery big enough to run high end for hours... My laptop with the biggest battery it can have lasts an hour at best, usually about 50 mins playing civ4 on high settings... (I hate my laptop btw) There is no way you can have a super intensive game on high and have it last a long time.

What is its specs, exactly.

[Deadly]

The gateway FX. It's what I use and recommend to everyone.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp;jsessionid =32OVGA4CDQPHJKC4D3GVAGI?skuId=9172511&type=produc t&id=1218043606827 (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp;jsessionid=32OVGA4CDQPHJKC4D3GVAGI?sku Id=9172511&type=product&id=1218043606827)

[Goldkills]

For desktop I'd suggest:
g = GB/GHZ here
Windows vista 64bit
4g RAM
Nvidia GTX260
Mobo of choice (I have an asus board) X48 or Nvidias 750I or 780I set
processor: E8400 or better
PSU of over 500 for possible future double up on video cards
CPU fan of choice

Super fixed....

[doa]

If you buy a decent gaming laptop you might find that it is quite heavy to carry to lectures and won't really be upgradable like a desktop PC.

If you are looking at DeAdLy's recommendation this will give you some more info about the GPU: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-nVidia-GeForce -9800M-GT-Graphics-Card.11099.0.html (http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-nVidia-GeForce-9800M-GT-Graphics-Card.11099.0.html)

[Darkness]

Quoting: Darkness
For desktop I'd suggest:
g = GB/GHZ here
Windows vista 64bit
4g RAM
Nvidia GTX260
Mobo of choice (I have an asus board) X48 or Nvidias 750I or 780I set
processor: E8400 or better
PSU of over 500 for possible future double up on video cards
CPU fan of choice



meh. I am at odds with nvidia, so I don't buy their shit anymore. And my 4870 512mb runs just as well as their top of the line.

I HATE vista, it only seems to cause problems. so ill keep my 3.25 out of 4 gigs of ram.

And there is no reason to go quad IMO yet since there has been little coding for multicore systems yet.


furthermore,
If you buy a decent gaming laptop you might find that it is quite heavy to carry to lectures and won't really be upgradable like a desktop PC.
This is a major problem. When I started college I thought it would be wise to have everything in one little box. Gaming and work on the go! Horrible, horrible decision. Get something small and light for work. You wont regret it.

[Easton Dark]

Vista isn't so bad and i'm not sure why people dont like it. Works like XP for me and that was great. I guess I'm not seeing the issues others are.

Anyway Darkness, I know for a fact that my computer can run on high power for an entire hour of scrubs with commercials (playing well watching) so thats like 57 minutes at the end of the show.

I know that the RAM is 4 GB and it has a Intel core 2 duo processors and a 500 GB hard drive but as for specifics I'd check out the Best Buy page

URL (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9166626&st=HP+dv7&lp=4&type=product&cp=1&id=1218041150734) CLICKY!

p.s. It is a heavy laptop and will be a bitch to carry, but hopefully you buy the backpack designed for computers with it.

[Darkness]

Vista isn't so bad and i'm not sure why people dont like it. Works like XP for me and that was great. I guess I'm not seeing the issues others are.

Anyway Darkness, I know for a fact that my computer can run on high power for an entire hour of scrubs with commercials (playing well watching) so thats like 57 minutes at the end of the show.

I know that the RAM is 4 GB and it has a Intel core 2 duo processors and a 500 GB hard drive but as for specifics I'd check out the Best Buy page

URL CLICKY!

p.s. It is a heavy laptop and will be a bitch to carry, but hopefully you buy the backpack designed for computers with it.



Meh, I dunno if id like "Processor Speed 2.13GHz", my laptop is only 2.0 dual core, but ive gotten too used to my desktops 3.16 lol.

But indeed, id expect an hour. But how long can it last past that under intensive conditions?

[Easton Dark]

But how long can it last past that under intensive conditions?

Intensive conditions? Like in a volcano? I think Crysis on high power and high settings is pretty intensive (good thing about that game is it lets you see how much battery you have left if it's not plugged in)

[Goldkills]

meh. I am at odds with nvidia, so I don't buy their shit anymore. And my 4870 512mb runs just as well as their top of the line.

I HATE vista, it only seems to cause problems. so ill keep my 3.25 out of 4 gigs of ram.

And there is no reason to go quad IMO yet since there has been little coding for multicore systems yet.


First of all i just build a computer with 64bit vista no problems at all. the build also had the GTX295 and a Q9400 no problems at all with any of the parts as of right now Nvidia is beating ATI hardcore right now with the 295 285 and the 275 and 260 all better then the ATI cards of the same price.
and yes i did see a huge diff from a quad to a dual core CPU it is worth it even if the game u play does not fully use it your OS will thus taking strain off the other cores for your game if u have problems with vista is most prob a driver thing clean out drivers as much as u can it help keep you computer error free and faster. as for OP if u need something to game with get a desktop for work get a cheap laptop dell and HP and gateway have good laptops but don't expect to play much with out paying over 13-1500$ or even more for top of the line stuff.

[Mofogh123]

I have an Asus Gaming Laptop which can run L4d like bread and butter