First of all, you have to realize that you have to take the gaming power and performance of a desktop system and put it in a portable shape. Expect the price range to adjust accordingly as a system like the ones that will be mentioned below will range between $1300-$3000.

If you plan to buy a laptop exclusively for gaming you have to take into consideration the following facts. Due to the fast pace evolution of games, you have to put the 3D performance of your video card on top of everything else. To enhance your gaming experience you will also need a god speaker system and a big, wide LCD display. Also, be sure to equip a large memory and a fast and reliable processor. First of all you should check the system requirements of the games you would like to play and buy a system that is at least 1/3 times better that the ones mentioned in the recommendations. This isn’t a scientifically proved method but the extra performance that you’ve opted for will count in 1 or 2 years.

Here are a few guidelines that you should definitely take into consideration before buying your gaming laptop. The processor is the downfall of many systems, so pay attention to this aspect and don’t be greedy and spend that extra $100 if needed. It will come in handy sooner or later. You have to look for a Core 2 Duo processor, this if you can’t find a Core 2 Quad that will fit your budget. Also take a peek at the over-clocking proprieties of the processor, which may also come at handy when dealing with fancy games.

Another important aspect that most neglect is the RAM memory. You have to look for something over 3GB DDR3 ( 1066MhZ or 1333MhZ ). Something like 6GB at 1333MhZ will be just fine. Note that 6GB of RAM can be quite expensive. You will also need a high-resolution display of 18 or 21 inch, LCD of course. When it comes to the hard drive, you should definitely go for big. Bear in mind that today’s games often exceed 10GB so your hard drive should be as spacious as your wallet can afford.

Here are a few systems worth watching when it comes to finding a reliable gaming laptop. I think it is normal to start with the Alienware M17X laptop, regarded as the world’s most powerful 17″ gaming laptop. this powerhouse system ranges between $1,699 and $2,700, based on the performance pack chosen. You can also opt in for the Alienware M15X laptop, almost the same sharp performances as the M17X, only this time in a 15” version.

Of course there are many more gaming laptops , you just have to know what you want, the rest just comes from itself. I hope you will make the right choice, and don’t forget to have fun, this is the most important aspect of all.

Customers are persons who decide which is the better brand on the market. When someone wants to buy a laptop computer, he usually makes a thorough research and finds out what people are thinking about a particular brand or laptop manufacturer.

In fact, consumer reports on laptop computers are the best answers you can ever receive to your questions when you want to buy a laptop computer. It all depends on each demand and on what do when you wants to buy a laptop . For instance, I found on a website a person`s question related to the fact that he/she didn’t know which model between Acer AS5740g-6935 and Sony Vaio VCP-EB is better.

Concerning its customer service, there are pros and cons opinions. On one side some people sustain that Acer products are cheaper and the customer service is almost absent and on the other side some customers say that Acer has a very helpful customer service and laptop computers. Concerning Sony, there are people saying that it refuses to fix up laptop computers that have guarantee. Moreover, the Sony customer services is asking for some taxes in order to do you a favor.

A problem for people who love and use laptop computers, is represented by Alienware consumer services, which don`t respond to your mails and calls. Also, there are persons that brought the same laptop to the repair shop for the same problem 4 times in a summer.

So, on the 1^st place in the worst customer services top, stands HP.

There are a lot of customers that are always complaining about this brand. Someone, had written on a specialized website that first, it is hard to reach customers services on phones. Second, the problems are resolved in 3 months and they are asking you to detect the problem. They will resolve only what are you asking them to. They are strictly and their attitude is unfriendly and rude. Apple seems to have the best customer services. For instance, one customer had said that, some time ago, he need to have some internal parts changed for his Apple MacBook because it kept overheating. In 24 hours, Apple had fixed all the problems. It is very receptive to customers` problems. So, Apple obtains a white ball!

Laptop companies are spending billions, each year, in order to improve their image and public services. Plus, a company with a bad reputation concerning consumer reports obtains only a rapidly decreasing number of customers. Customers are meant to be the most important persons in a business. They decide if a company will have or won`t have the necessary success. Companies that play dirty and trick customers lose everything, even if they have the best people working there and the best products.

Anyone of us seeks support. When we have just bought a laptop computer, our main care is not to spoil it and for it not to let us down when we need it the most. But, if something worse happens with it, the competent person to solve the problem is “its mother”, the company that produced it (its manufacturer). A little advice to laptop computer manufacturers: Once involved in an activity, assume your mistakes!

Laptop computers are separated into different categories, as we all know, depending on who uses them and for what they are used. There is a wide range of laptop computers but we will make a comparison of laptop computers used for gaming, mostly, just to give you an idea about how tings work in such laptops. So, below is this comparison of laptop computers which hopefully will help you decide if these types of laptops are what you need and want. The comparison will be made between Alienware M17x that is already very well-known on the gaming laptops market and Toshiba’s Qosmio X505.

Alienware M17x is probably the best laptop computer for games, thanks to its Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 2.4GHz (3MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB) processor that is powered by 4GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1066MHz. Moreover, the games are powered also by the Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M, 2GB – SLI Enabled video card which will make your gaming experience incredible taking into account the colours and contrasts you’ll get on the 17-inch Wide XGA+ that has a native resolution of 1440×900.

Even better, you also get a 250GB good for storing your games and a Slot-Load Dual Layer DVD Burner (DVD+-RW, CD-RW) to write your own disks. Besides the fact that the laptop will take your gaming experience to the other level, the design will also change something in your life. The M17x is a beautiful piece of machine with its Nebula Red – Special Edition – Anodized Aluminum chassis that will take you out of the ordinary and the back-lit keyboard will allow you to get into your games’ atmosphere thanks to the red light it spreads. However, the laptop is pretty expensive as it gets to some $1.799, but if you are a true gamer and you know what you want and, most importantly, you have the resources to get it, than you should buy this laptop without putting too much thought in it.



Toshiba’s Qosmio X505 is also a very good gaming laptop and we’ll make a comparison now with the previously-mentioned laptop’s features to see how good it gets. The processor is the Intel Core i7 720QM / 1.6 GHz that is running on 6GB of RAM, which is more than the M17x has, so it runs a bit faster. The hard drive is also larger, as it has a storage space of 320GB on which you can stock anything you like. But let’s see if the video card is more or less powerful than the M17x’s. The X505 comes with the PCI Express x16 – NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M TurboCache, which is not as fast as the one the M17x has, but it’s fast enough to run your games smoothly and frameless. All in all, this too makes a good gaming laptop due to its features, but it is also very stylish in design. It doesn’t shock, however, like the above-mentioned, but this is too the type of laptop that will make you stand out in the crowd. Another difference between them is the price, as this one comes cheaper and you can purchase it for only $1.474.99

Laptops are not the best gaming computers. However, if you want to play when you take the long way to go, you can buy a laptop with enough power to run new games. If you go through the stores and you will compare products and options, you will discover that you have what to choose without great sacrifices.

There are several ways to get a cheap laptop for gaming. One option is to buy a second hand or refurbished notebook with desired characteristics. Another way is to buy an older model or looking for a shop which is doing reductions of price due to high stock . Compare features of different models to see which offers the highest performance at the lowest price. Gaming laptops need a minimum of 1 GB RAM. However, 3 or 4 GB will offer better performance in games with detailed graphics. Processor must be a minimum 2 GHz.

Laptop for gaming needs 4 basic components. These are the CPU (processor), more RAM, a new network card, a good video card (GPU) with its own memory and a decent sound card. Display preferably be at least 17 inches wide and a gamepad and a pair of headphones will additional fill but there are not essential. A good notebook for gaming needs CD / DVD burner to install games. It also requires a minimum 160 GB hard drive to store the files needed for the games. Laptops with multi-core processors are more efficient compared to the single core even if the single-core has higher frequency. Quad-core processors are best suited for performance in games. Choose RAM DDR SDRAM, DDR2 and DDR3 SDRAM will further increase the laptop’s performances in the game.
Dell Alienware M17x
First of all I would like to note that Alienware M17x hardly looks like a laptop, but rather like a spaceship console, and is a part of the gaming laptop computers. If someone has something to note in terms of design, it means that he lost his mind. With other words, in a configuration taken to the extreme, Alienware M17x laptop may be the strongest laptop in the world. Why? Try to pay attention and follow carefully the configuration: Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme QX9300 (12MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB), 8GB of DDR3 memory at 1333 MHz frequency, two graphics cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280m with 1GB memory in SLI configuration, Blu-ray optical drive combo, 500 GB hard drive at a speed of 7200 RPM and a 17-inch screen capable of a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels. Pretty impressive, right? Other equipment (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, webcam, etc.) suddenly become some widgets. Alienware M17x’s weight starts at 5.3 kg and the configuration presented here for you reaches 6 kg without any problems. Mobility? 9 cell battery? What difference does it make when you have a monster that can run any new game? For this configuration the price is of $ 3370. Oops!

Toshiba Qosmio X300-14U
Qosmio X300-14U is something fresher on the market and less customizable than Dell, but it certainly has something to say at the performance chapter. Qosmio X300-14U’s case looks flawless and the sound can’t be anyway less then just perfect because it has on its board a Harman Kardon audio system with 5 speakers: two for the average frequency, 2 for high and one for the bass. The processor is a “modest” Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300 working at frequencies of 2.53 GHz. Qosmio X300-14U is part of the gaming laptop computers after all so you should feel the power of two NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS graphics cards in SLI configuration with 2 x 512 MB memory. We may also obtain up to 1791 MB of memory via TurboCache technology.

It would be foolish to put more than the 4 GB of RAM, as much as you installed, but you can add yet another on that. Hard disk? Two pieces of each 320 GB go? There are the less pleasant parts when it comes to optical drive. You have the option of a Blu-ray drive, pretty good at what may be the Qosmio X300-14U. Perhaps the producer was not thinking about this fact because of the screen that leads only 1.680 x 1.050 pixels. There is no sense that you think about the issue of connectivity. Qosmio X300-14U has everything you could ask for in a computer or even more. Mobility is limited to a maximum of one hour and 50 minutes, but I do not expect more from a system full of resources, with minimum weight of 4.3 kilograms. The system cost about 3200 euro in the configuration that you read about above.

iBUYPOWER Battalion 101 D900F
Yes, I have not heard of this brand before until I found out about their configurable super laptop’s. Casing does not look at all spectacular compared to Dell and Toshiba models, but what is under the “hood” will give you for sure a first class gaming experience. If you start on their website you can configure Battalion 101 D900F. Starting with the processor, the most powerful choice is the new Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition, you will get with this laptop the four cores running at 3.33 GHz frequency, which is a true delight. 17-inch screen has a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels, which entitles you to install also a Blu-ray drive. The only option for RAM is 6 GB DDR3 from Corsair, which is not so bad. At the hard disk chapter you can chose two pieces to 500 GB, but you can also choose two SSD in 80 GB or 160 GB version of something more expensive. Battalion 101 D900F comes with a card reader, with Wi-Fi Draft-N module, with a webcam with a resolution of 3 megapixel and for the operating system you are forced to choose a Windows. You have a lot of options for peripherals that you can also add to make your laptop as you wish. Battalion 101 D900F configured like this costs only about 2490 euro. I say only considering the prices of the colleagues above.

During holidays there are people who still want to check their mail in the brains of the mountains and to update projects. For such tasks we need a powerful laptop, and that is why we need a top 10 laptop computers, a top with the best terminals with screen of 15.4 inches. Models belong to producers like Alienware, Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Sony or Toshiba.

Laptops HP Pavilion dv7, dv5 and dv4 are designed for multimedia fans that have a low budget to medium. Dv5 model was launched in June this year and comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB DDR2, NVIDIA GeForce Go and Windows Vista Home Premium. Its display is a WSXGA+ with a resolution of 1680 x 1050 pixels, support HD (720 p) and 15.4 inch diagonal. Hp Pavilion dv5t incorporates a 320 GB HDD (5400 RPM SATA), a Blu-ray drives and supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0.

Alienware Area – 51 m15x. This laptop is for gamers and it was released in January 2008, at a price of 3600 dollars. Its display is a WXGA with HD support (1080p) and the resolution is of 1920 x 1200 pixels. The Area 51 m15x processor is an Intel Core 2 Extreme X9000 at 2.8 GHz and the RAM memory is DDR2 2GB. The list of specifications includes a motherboard Intel GM965, a NVIDIA GeForge 8800M GTX 512 MB, Windows Vista Home Premium and an HDD (7200 RPM Serial ATA) 200 GB. In addition, Alienware laptop comes with a DVD burner, card reader, HDMI port and Bluetooth 2.0.



Sony Vaio FZ was also launched in January 2008 and it cost no less than 2200 dollars, proving to be a performance terminal at an affordable price. Its screen is a WXGA with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels and it supports HD (720 p). VAIO FZ’s processor is an Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 at 2.1 GHz and the memory is DDR2 RAM of 4 GB. Its specifications include an NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT 256 MB, OS Windows Vista Ultimate, HDD (Serial ATA 4200 RPM) for 300 GB, Blu-ray drive and 2 in 1 card reader. The list of ports of Sony Vaio is rich, including 3 USB 2.0 sites, a Fireware, Ethernet, headphone jack, microphone, HDMI, VGA and S – video.

Dell XPS M1530. This terminal has a WUXGA display with a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels and HD support (1080p) plus processor Intel Core 2 Duo T 9300 at 2.5 GHz. The RAM is DDR2 3 GB and the graphics card model is a 256 MB Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT. Dell XPS M1530 comes with a HDD (5400 RPM SATA) 320 GB, DVD writer, card reader and Bluetooth 2.0, mobile broadband, HDMI, VGA out and USB 2.0.

Apple MacBook Pro. This star of this ranking was released in February 2008 and it was available at a price of 2100 / 2500 dollars, depending on which version to choose. The display is a WXGA+ with a resolution of 1440 x 900 pixels and it supports HD (720p). Its list of equipment includes an Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 2.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM DDR2, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256 MAB and OS Mac. The HDD is an ATA 200 GB serial at 7200 RPM and offers storage space, coming with a DVD burner, an ExpressCard slot, 2 USB 2.0, Firewire (800 and 400) and DVI-out.

Toshiba Qosimio X305 and F55. The first one is focusing on gaming functions and the second on GPS performance. F55 is considered a low-end laptop, looking like a smaller version of G55, equipped with a display of 15.4 inches and GPS sensor. Its processor is an Intel Core 2 Duo and the built in video card is a Nvidia GeForce 9700 GTS 512 MB. On its list of specifications has also an operating system Windows Vista Home Premium, eSATA port and HDMI-CEC.

Dell Studio 15 comes with a WUXGA display supports 1080p and 1920 x 1200 pixels resolution, accompanied by an Intel Core 2 Duo T930 to 2.6 GHz and 3 GB of RAM DDR2. Its video card is an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 256 MB and OS’s that arrives with Studio 15 is Windows Vista Home Premium. The HDD is a SATA 5400 RPM and 320 GB storage space. In addition Dell Studio 15 includes a Blu-ray drive, card reader, HDMI support, VGA, Firewire, USB 2.0, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 and wireless broadband.

Toshiba Satellite A305 has a classic WXGA display with HD support (720p) and 1280 x 800 pixels resolution on its list of specifications, along with an Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 at 2.0 GHz and 4 GB of DDR RAM. An ATI Mobility Radeon 3470 128 MB video card is among its facilities, along with OS Windows Vista Home Premium and a SATA HDD (5400 RPM) 320 GB. In addition, Toshiba Satelite A305 incorporates a card reader, DVD burner and supports USB 2.0, Fireware, S-Video, VGA, HDMI-CEC and Wi-Fi.

Lenovo IdeaPad Y510 includes a WXGA display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, Intel Core 2 Duo T5550 at 1.83 GHz and 4GB DDR2. The built in video card is a Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT 256 MB and OS installed is Windows Vista Home Premium. In addition, the laptop also includes a SATA HDD (5400 RPM) 250 GB, a DVD burner and a card reader. Y510 comes with USB 2.0, Firewire, VGA, S-Video and headphone jack.

Sony Vaio NR has a WXGA screen supporting a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. Also, the terminal includes an Intel Core 2Duo T5550 to 1.83 GHz, 2GB DDR2 and Intel GMA X3100 video card. OS it use is Windows Vista Home Premium and on the list of equipment we fins a Serial ATA HDD (5400 RPM) 250 GB, DVD writer, card reader and USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet, VGA out and headphone jack.

Whether you choose an ideal laptop for gamers or the best “media monster”, any laptop from the top 10 laptop computers would be a portable companion for your travel.