The computers appeared many years ago, and they have all sorts of applications. Today they are used by so many people, and in so many domains, that they had become a part of our lives. At the beginning they were build for more serious activities, such as writing documents, running applications for work and stuff like that, but in time the computers began to be used more and more for fun activities. And among these fun activities there are also the video games. In time they had become really popular, and as the computers were advancing and becoming more complex, the video games were becoming much more complex too. And today they are so popular, and so complex, that there are some models of computers and laptops that are specially made with high end features, for advanced gaming activities.

So in case you are wondering which are the best laptops for gaming?, the answer would be: the ones made by Alienware. This company is specialized in producing high end notebooks with very complex technical details and also with very high prices. But it is not necessary to have an Aliewnare laptop to enjoy a good quality at the video games. You can have a laptop made by any other company, as long as it fulfills some conditions. And about them we are going to discuss more in this article.

Well first of all, your gaming laptop would need a powerful processor. An Intel Core 2 Duo is good enough for most of the video games, but it would be even better to have an Intel i3, i5 or even an Intel i7 (which is the best one right now). Besides this you might also need a very good RAM memory, and to not worry about anything, 4 GB of DDR 3 memory would be enough. And as important as the processor and the RAM memory is also the graphics engine. Since the video games of these days are very complex, with advanced graphics, you will definitely need a good video card. One that has a video memory of 1 GB can be really good. And of course to enjoy the graphic of the game at its best quality, you will also need a large widescreen display. A 15 inch one can be ok, but it would be even better to have a display screen with a diagonal of 17 inch.

Since they are so complex, the video games of 2010 are also very large, occupying a few GB of hard disc space. So in order to store a lot of them, you will also need a large hard drive. One of 320 GB or even better 500 GB can be enough for most of the users. And since any video game comes on a CD or a DVD, you will also need a good optical drive for your laptop, in order to copy and install the game. A DVD MultiDrive with double layer support will be good, but it would be perfect to have one with Blu-ray support.

There are probably some more other small features to consider, but if you’ll buy a laptop with the features presented above, it will definitely have the other small ones (such as wireless connectivity for easy access to the internet, a digital card reader, a good touchpad device, USB ports and other ports). So know you know which are the features needed for the best laptops for gaming. If you already have a laptop that behaves very well at complex video games, tell us more about it! Have a nice day!

There are all kinds of different laptops, and depending on their technical details they can be used for different activities. Some of them are good for simple activities such as browsing the internet or writing documents, while others are good for more advanced tasks such as video editing or playing complex video games.

And for today we’ll focus more on this activity, which is playing video games.  It is known that the best gaming laptops are the ones produced by Alienware, but these ones are also very expensive. And some Alienware laptops can even cost 2,000 dollars or more. So it is clear that not so many people can afford an Alienware laptop to play their video games. And that’s why for today we’ll discuss about a quite good notebook, that can be used for playing video games, but which is also much cheaper compared to an Alienware laptop. And this is the Toshiba A 505-S 6033 model that has a price of just 800 dollars at geeks.com. And for these money you will get quite very good features, as you will see in the next part of the article.

The processor of this laptop is the most powerful one on the market right now, the  Intel Core I 7-720 QM 1.6 GHz quad-core processor. This one will work really fast for you, and you will play any video game with no problems. The RAM memory is powerful too, offering 4 GB of DDR 3 SDRAM memory, so this way you can open more programs and do more activities at the same time. But let’s not forget to mention the thing that you see first at this laptop, and this is the display screen. This Toshiba notebook has a 16 inch widescreen Hi-Def TruBrite LCD display with a 1366 x 768 resolution.

This screen can be perfect for watching movies, pictures, playing video games or laying out two documents side by side. The optical drive is good too (a DVD ± RW DL drive), but not the most powerful on the market, because it doesn’t offer Blu-ray support. The sound will be quite ok too, thanks to the built in speakers that are produced by Harman Kardon. And this is quite a good feature, because to have a great gaming experience you also need a good sound.<

No matter if you are storing complex and large video games, movies, music, pictures or any other files, you will have plenty of space to store hundreds of them, thanks to the large hard drive of 500 GB. And this laptop even comes with an installed version of the Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit Edition, so you can use it right after you have bought it.

Like most of the other laptops on the market, this one also features a built in webcam with microphone, so that you can keep in touch with your friends over the internet. And to allow you to have easy access to the internet, this laptop  has both wireless and Ethernet connectivity. For playing video games at a good quality you will also need a good graphics engine, and this model has a NVIDIA GeForce 310 M with 512 MB GDDR3 discrete graphics memory, and Up to 1755 MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory using NVIDIA TurboCache technology.

For easy transfer of pictures, videos and other files, this laptop also has a 6 in 1 media card reader (with support for:  Secure Digital (SD), Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC), Memory Stick (MS), Memory Stick Pro (MS PRO), MultiMedia Card (MMC) and xD-Picture Card (xD). It has most of the ports you might need, including 3 USB ports, a HDMI port, audio ports, a VGA port and others. And it is not so big after all, with dimensions of: 1.25 x 5.25 x 2.35 inches (H x W x D, approximate) and a weight of 6.48 lbs without battery.

So after all we can consider this Toshiba A 505 – S 6033 one of the best  gaming laptops , and in case you buy it from geeks.com, here is what you will receive in the package:
Toshiba A 505-S 6033 Core i7-720 QM Quad Core 1.6 GHz 16 inch Notebook
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit pre-installed w/CoA
6 cell Lithium-Ion battery
Power adapter (100-240 V ~ 1.5 A, 50/60 Hz; Output: 19 V ~ 4.74 A)
Power cord

Today there are so many different models of notebooks, from so many producers, each model with its different technical details. Not any laptop can work for any activity, and some are more appropriate for certain activities, compared to others. For example some are good just for browsing the internet, others are good for playing video games other for video editing and so on. And today we’ll focus on the best gaming laptops.

Since the video games these days are really advanced with a complex graphic and complex characters, there are some specific features needed for a gaming laptop. First of all it need a fast processor, and a big RAM memory, to support the fast and complex game play. And as important as these 2 features there is also the graphics engine, that need to be really powerful in order to support the very complex images of the video games. Since most of the video games today are really large, you will also need a big hard drive, in order to store as many of them as possible. And to install the game you will need a CD or a DVD, so for this your laptop needs to have a good optical drive too.

There are many models that would fit this description, but it is known that the best gaming laptops are made by Alienware. Alienware is a subsidiary of Dell (so it is also an American company) and it is specialized in making computers and laptops with special features suited for video games. And since the products of this company have very advanced features, they can also be used for other complex tasks, such as video and audio editing. The company also sells other gaming products (such as headsets, mice, monitors and keyboards) made by other companies.

The laptops of this company are known for their advanced features, and also for their science fiction based design. So for today we’ll discuss more about a laptop made by Alienware, and we’ll choose the model M 11 x, which is the smallest and the cheapest of the 3 models made by the company. It is cheaper compared to other Alienware notebooks, but compared to other laptops with the same dimension of the screen (11”) it is much more expensive. It has a price starting at 799 dollars, and like the producer says, it is the most powerful 11″ gaming laptop in the universe.

It is quite a small one, with dimensions of (W) 11.2″ x (D) 9.2″ x (H) 1.3″ and a weight smaller than 4.5 pounds. So this one is both really small and really powerful, meaning that you can play your video games almost anywhere. It comes with very advanced features, features that are usually found on bigger laptops, and not on such small netbooks. This laptop is fully customizable, and just the basic version (with the weakest features) has the price of 799 dollars. If you visit the official site of the company you can fully customize your future model, and you can even choose the color of the keyboard, the alien logo from the OS, and you can even write your name (or nickname) onto the laptop.

We made a configuration slightly better than the original one, and for a price of 999 dollars, here is what you can get: an Overclockable Intel ® Core ™2 Duo SU 7300 1.3 GHz (3MB Cache) processor and a RAM memory of 4 GB Dual Channel DDR 3 at 800 MHz. These options are quite really good, good enough to handle any video game. We chooses a bigger hard drive than the regular one, a 250 GB SATA II @ 7,200 RPM and an installed version of the Genuine Windows ® 7 Home Premium, 64 bit, English. As we said before the display screen has 11 inch and it is a WideHD screen with a resolution of 1366 x 768. The graphics engine is a really good one, a 1 GB NVIDIA ® GeForce ® GT 335 M. The sound is good too, and it has an Internal High Definition Surround Sound Audio (5.1). And finally it also has a Integrated 10/100 Network Interface Card and a 1.3 MP webcam. So enjoy it!

There are so many models of notebooks on the market, that sometimes it can be a really difficult task to decide which one to choose. First of all you will need to decide which will be the main activities that you will be doing at your laptop, and then to think of how much money you are willing to spend. If video games are your top priority, then you will need a really powerful laptop…so you will also need a lot of money to buy it. Since the video games of our days are really complex, with advanced graphics, sounds and with quite a big size, there are some features that you need to consider.

First of all you will need a fast processor and a good RAM memory, so that the game will run as smooth as possible. To be able to enjoy the great graphics of the video games, you will also need a large display screen (at least 15 inch, or even better 17 inch), and a really good graphics engine. As we already said the video games today are quite large, some of them having 10 GB or more, so in order to be able to store many video games on your laptop (as long with your other stuff), you will need a large hard disc too.

We already mentioned that some of the best gaming laptop computers are the ones made by Alienware, but since we already discussed about some of them, for today we’ll choose a different model. And we found one that is really powerful, and offers very good features at an even smaller price compared to an Alienware. This model is made by Asus, and it is the Asus – Laptop with Intel ® Core ™ i7 Processor – Black, Model: G 73 JH-RBBX 09. The first thing you will notice is its simple and elegant design and its big display screen of 17.3 inch. It is a LED LCD high-definition plus widescreen display with a 1600 x 900 resolution that will show movies and games with a stunning clarity. Its processor is a really good one (the best for a laptop at this hour), the Intel ® Core ™ i7-720 QM processor. This one features 1333 MHz system bus, 8 MB L 2 cache and 1.6 GHz processor speed with Turbo Boost up to 2.8GHz.

The RAM memory is also very good, and its actually the best one you can have on a laptop at this time – 8 GB of DDR 3 memory for high multitasking power. The optical drive is quite good too, and it is a Multiformat DVD ± RW/ CD-RW drive with double-layer support. But this one is not the best on the market, because it dooesn’t offer Blu-ray support. The hard drive is also very good, the best one on the market right now and it offers an amazing disc space of 1 TB (that means 1,000 GB) with 7200 rpm. Few laptops on the market offer this hard drive as a standard feature. The graphics engine is very good too and it is a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 graphics with 1 GB GDDR 5 video memory for lush images. It also has a HDMI port for connection to an HDTV and 3D Audio with EAX Advanced HD 4.0 and 2 built-in stereo speakers for a great audio experience in video games. Most of the laptops these days have a 5 in 1 media card reader, or a 7 in 1, but this one is even better, offering a 8 in 1 media reader (with support for Secure Digital, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Duo, SmartMedia and xD-Picture Card formats). It is also better than others offering 4 USB ports instead of 2 or 3 and also a built in webcam.

And of course you can use it for other activities too, not just for video games so it also has a wireless connectivity for easier access to the internet and a built-in 10/100/1000 Mbps Fast Ethernet LAN with RJ-45 connector for quick and easy wired Web connection. It comes with an installed version of the latest Microsoft operating system, the Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit and with Adobe Reader and other software included. And finally, to benefit for all of these features you will have to pay quite a lot of money – 1,599 dollars.
So as a conclusion this is an amazing laptop, that offers some of the best technical details on the market, and also at a very good price, compared to other powerful laptops that cost more than 2,000 dollars. Enjoy it!

If you really love video games, and especially the RPG games, you have definitely played (or at least heard) about the Sims game. It is a strategic life simulation computer game and it was made by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts (EA). It contains hundreds of virtual persons (Sims) and it simulates the day to day activities of them, in a suburban household located close to the SimCity (which is another similar game). The first Sims game was released in 2000, and the latest version is the Sims 3, released in 2009. But besides the simple versions Sims, Sims 2 and Sims 3, there were many more other expansion packs released, such as: The Sims: Livin’ large, The Sims: House Party, The Sims: House Party, The Sims: Vacation and others.

So in case you want to play the latest version of this game (The Sims 3), and you are wondering what computer or laptop you need to have, here are the system requirements for this game. It can work with operating systems like: Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard, but probably no one is using these days an older operating system than Windows XP, so this won’t be a problem. For the processor, you will need at least a Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent, a 2.0 Ghz for Windows XP or a 2.4 Ghz for Windows 7, but of course it would be better to have a dual core processor. You will need at least 1 GB of RAM memory if playing it on Windows XP, and at least 1.5 GB if you are playing it on Windows Vista or Windows 7.

You also need at least 6.1 GB of free hard disc space to be able to install the game, but if you will want to add some extra content later, you will need more disc space. For the graphics engine you will need a DirectX 9.0 c compatible card with at least 128 MB RAM (NVIDIA FX 5900/ ATI 9500 or better). And finally you need a 100 % DirectX 9.0 c compatible sound card. So the requirements of this game are not really advanced, and you will be able to play it with most of the new models of laptops. But for now we’ll discuss about a laptop that offers all of these features and even more, so that the gaming experience would be really good. It is known that Alienware is specialized in making laptops which are really good for video games, so we’ll discuss about a model from this producer – the Alienware – Laptop with Intel ® Core ™ 2 Duo Processor – Cosmic Black, Model: AM 11 X- 2719 CSB. It is quite an expensive laptop (899 dollars), but for these money you will get really powerful features.

As you can see, even the design of this laptop reminds of a video game, and here are the complete technical details for this model:

-Warranty Terms – Parts 1 year
-Warranty Terms – Labor 1 year limited
-Product Height 1.3 ”
-Product Width 9 ”
-Product Weight 3.8 lbs.
-Product Depth 11.3 ”
-Processor Brand Intel ®
-Processor Intel ® Core ™ 2 Duo
-Processor Speed 1.3 GHz
-Battery Type 8 cell prismatic
-Display Type High-definition widescreen LCD (1366 x 768)
-Screen Size (Measured Diagonally) 11.6 ”
-System Bus 800 MHz
-Cache Memory 3 MB
-System Memory (RAM) 4 GB
-System Memory (RAM) Expandable To 8 GB
-Type of Memory (RAM) DDR 3 SDRAM
-Hard Drive Type SATA (7200 rpm)
-Computer Hard Drive Size 250 GB
-Optical Drive Not included
-Direct-Disc Labeling No
-Digital Media Reader or Slots Yes, digital media card reader
-Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 335 M
-Video Memory 1 GB GDDR 3
-TV Tuner No
-MPEG No
-Built-in Webcam Yes
-Modem None
-Networking Built in 10/ 100 Ethernet LAN
-Wireless Networking Wireless- B+G+N
-Bluetooth-Enabled No
-S-Video Outputs None
-Additional Audio/ Video Connectors HDMI
-Audio High-definition 5.1 Surround Sound support
-Speakers Internal
-PCMCIA Slots 1 Express Card
-USB 2.0 Ports 3
-IEEE 1394 FireWire Ports None
-Parallel Ports None
-Game Ports None
-Laptop Weight Ultraportable (5.5 lbs. or less)
-Battery Life Up to 5 hours and 35 minutes
-Pointing Device Touchpad
-HDMI Output Yes
-Blu-ray Player No
-Operating System Platform Windows
-Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
-ENERGY STAR Qualified No
-BBY Software Installer No
-Graphics Chip NVIDIA