Grim... wrote:
Atrocity Exhibition wrote:
I really don't want to go over a grand, and even then I think it's a bit daft to pay that much cash.
You're going to struggle to get anything good (or, perhaps more importantly, anything that's still good in six months) for less than a grand. TBH, I think you'll struggle for less than two grand.
Is there really, really no way you could run a desktop for gaming, and a laptop for doing "normal" stuff on? It would work out cheaper, and you'd get a better PC.
Gaming laptops are expensive because no bugger wants them, because they're so expensive.
Go fig.
Because tbh they're kinda stupid and pointless. Some kid on the Alienware forum just dropped $4k on a laptop, a gaming laptop.
When I challenged him as to why the fuck you would want a bollock toaster (I mean SLI 280 in a 1" chassis?) his excuse was "I want to be able to take it to different rooms !".
Whoah... Hang on.. You just spent $2000 too much to be able to play a game in a different room. My rebuttals were.
1. You are not going to be able to have this thing on your lap unless you want to develop elephantitus in your gonads from radiation. (was a joke tbh).
2. You could have built
two gaming computers with identical specs and had one in each room.
Of course he had no reply.
The reason people don't want gaming laptops is because they're fucking
stupid . They're usually huge, heavy monstrous things that you can't have on your lap. So what's the point?
I have
one 280GTX in my computer. I fucking hate it. I would hazard a guess and say it has stopped me gaming 60-70% of the summer because within twenty minutes my room is so fucking hot I have to shut the PC down, turn on the large oscillating fan and vacate for an hour or so.
I cannot even begin to imagine how much heat two of them in a 1" deep laptop generates.
You're right of course Grim. Very few companies provide genuine proper R&D'd gaming laptops. And of those that do? none have had the experience that Alienware have.
When you price them up Alienware usually offer the cheapest too, and as I say in laptops you need experience. The new M17 has none of the flaws the old M15 had (burn baby burn, laptop infernoooo yeah, burn the mother down) and is their best to date. It kinda winds me up when companies like MSI et al stuff some uber performance gear into a laptop without doing the research.
As an example about four years ago my ex wife brought a Sony Vaio. The spec for the time was stonking. Radeon 9200 pro (proper one, not mobile), P4 3.2ghz etc. It was hailed as a "desktop replacement". It cost her $1499. A complete and total bargain right? WRONG !. Within about 10 minutes of playing
an N64 emu it would overheat and slow to a crawl and literally scald your bollocks. It was utterly and totally useless for gaming and thus all she did with it was surf the web.
That's what happens when a company with no fucking brains tries to build a gaming laptop.
In Alienware I trust (but having said that even I wouldn't trust their SLI 280 model TBH).