Laptop Shopping

  • Thread starter Thread starter Lain
  • 13 comments
  • 860 views
Lain

Lain

Premium
Messages
7,107
United States
Pasadena, TX
Messages
Yaywalter
So I'm thinking about buying a high-end gaming laptop, preferably under $3500.

Right now I'm considering a Malibal Nine configured with a Core i7 990X and 2x Radeon HD 6990M in Crossfire, which comes out to about $3400.

Anyone know of any better options (besides build a desktop pc)?
 
Well the kind of PC you have quoted will be what 17", 18" or 19"?

Weigh around 5kg(11lb)+.

Need atleast a 120w power supply.

Are you going to be moving this about or just having it on a desk.?
 
Do you need mobility as well as power?

If you're not going anywhere with the laptop, you might as well build a desktop for that price. Desktop graphics cards wipe the floor with laptop graphics card, even if it is ASUS' best G-model or the best from Alienware.
 
I'd agree. $3500 for one laptop computer is a lot to invest. You can easily get yourself a powerful desktop with monitor, keyboard and mouse with budget room for a good laptop.
 
Bram Turismo
Do you need mobility as well as power?

If you're not going anywhere with the laptop, you might as well build a desktop for that price. Desktop graphics cards wipe the floor with laptop graphics card, even if it is ASUS' best G-model or the best from Alienware.
Click to expand...

Does G stand for "Grotesque?" They're so ugly. D:
 
Actually in person the ASUS G series look nice. I've seen Alienware and they look cheap in my mind(m11x for example). Of course looks is subjective.
 
You could go with the Asus VX7.
P_500.jpg

http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/Special_Edition/ASUSAutomobili_Lamborghini_VX7/
 
For all those who asked, yes I need mobility. I'm in the Navy, and lugging a desktop rig to and from my ship on a frequent basis is very impractical.

ROAD_DOGG33J
Buy both. For $3400 it would be possible to get both a gaming desktop and decent gaming laptop.
Click to expand...

I've already got a decent gaming laptop with my MacBook Pro, actually. I'm looking for a killer one though.

The Asus laptops look nice, but aren't quite as big of a jump up from my MBP as I'm looking for. The GTX 560M is quite a bit more beefy than my MBP's Radeon HD 6750M, but I'd also like an equally big upgrade in CPU.
 
Last edited:
Grayfox
What kind of games?

I got a Asus U36SD-RX138V for about AUD$1400

Specs:
Intel i7 2620M 2.7Ghz(3.5Ghz Turbo Clock)
4GB 1333Mhz
750GB 2.5" HDD
A/B/G/N+BT 3.0 Wifi card
Nvidia 520M Video card/Intel HD 3000
Integrated 802.11 a/b/g/n
2xUSB 2.0
1xUSB 3.0
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 x64
Battery 8Cells 5600 mAh 83 Whrs

http://www.asus.com.au/Notebooks/Superior_Mobility/U36SD/#specifications
Click to expand...

All sorts of games. Battlefield 3, RAGE, Elder Scrolls V, Deus Ex Human Revolution, etc.

My current MacBook Pro can play them fine, but it'd be nice to play them better.

The main reason I'm upgrading is actually because I want a laptop with a top-of-the-line desktop hex-core i7. I'd really like to have a high (3+ GHz) base clock speed, and not just the potential for the processor to overclock itself to a high clock speed when all of its cores aren't being used and/or it's under a certain temperature.


I've looked at the Eon17, but once you start configuring it, it gets more expensive than an equivalently configured Malibal laptop.
 
Last edited:
yaywalter
I've looked at the Eon17, but once you start configuring it, it gets more expensive than an equivalently configured Malibal laptop.
Click to expand...

Plus it looks like something from the early 90's being so brick like.
 
Grayfox
Plus it looks like something from the early 90's being so brick like.
Click to expand...

The Malibal Nine I'm considering ain't no supermodel, either. :p

In fact, externally it's fairly similar to the EON 17.


If I go with the Malibal, I think I'll get dual GeForce GTX 485M's instead of dual Radeon HD 6990M's. About the same cost ($30 cheaper, actually), and seems to perform slightly better. And I've heard that dual NVIDIA GPUs in SLI don't have quite as noticeable microstuttering as AMD GPUs do in CrossFire.
 
Last edited:

Latest Posts

Back