Laptop Gaming

The Unwashed One

I am a commercial diver, so I spend most of my time offshore. My problem is that I want to use my laptop to game offshore, and I am having some difficulty with it. My laptop is a Toshiba, with dual 1.6 intels, 2 gigs of ram, and a 128 MB graphics card. I'm thinking that my issue lies with my graphics card, because it is a card that has been discontiued by radeon, and when I buy a game that has specs well below that of my laptop, sometimes I still can't play it.

So, I know at some point I will have to get a new laptop, but I am not too keen on it since I bought like... three? last year. I know AlienWare is supposed to be really good, but is there some way I can get a good gaming laptop without dropping like $3500?

tachyon

You don't have to get anything too expense to be able to game on a laptop.

For instance I grabbed an Asus from proportable. I need something small (13in, around 4 lbs) but the key was that it had it's own dedicated video card. (Which is hard to find in something that small) Cost me $1999

Go out to the http://www.notebookreview.com/ and check out the forums, they usually have some good user reviews.

Aldo

Alienware wasn't all that dandy, you just pay a lot of money for a shiny case. I'm not savvy on specs, but I do know laptops aren't made for gaming.

Cronus

Aleinware used to be great, as all the components that aren't the eye cathers were of great quality. Sadly they have gone down hill since Dell bought them. I got a laptop from them a few months after and I've had so many problems with it. I've heard that the best are from Falcon NW but they are very expensive, so I certainly won't be able to tell anybody about first hand experiences.