Today’s gaming laptops use high end components to make your dreams a reality. The power of the CPU combined with the GPU (Graphics cards) achieve high end 3-D graphic detail. If you’re on the market for a new gaming system be sure you buy one with a dedicated ATI or Nvidia graphics card. Systems that come with onboard video cards such as Intel’s GMA are very common, cost-effective and power efficient, but don’t have enough power for modern 3D games.



Be prepared to drop $1000 for mid end and up to $2000 for upper end systems. Most of today’s gaming laptops have 15″ or larger screens, 3-4GB of RAM (or more), and usually have a 2-4 hour battery life.

It seems like the most popular gaming laptops are one that have large LCD's. Take a jaunt over Amazon.com and you'll come across the ASUS G Series G73JH-A1, a popular beast of a gaming/media editing machine. Gamers agree that the machine has a lot power to play with; it easily handles any games at the highest settings. The laptop also packs plenty of power to handle intense media editing, do high resolution renderings, and fly with anything else you throw at it. Read the rest of this entry »

The HP Envy 14 is vastly improved from the the original Envy systems that HP introduced back in 2009. What you’ve got here in a 14.5” LCD machine that weighs 5.2 pounds, has a 2.66GHz Intel Core i5-450M processor, 4GB of DDR3 RAM and a 500GB 7,200rpm hard drive. It’s video card is the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 GPU with 1GB of VRAM. It’s got two USB ports, an eSATA / USB combo port, HDMI, DisplayPort, Ethernet, and two headphone jacks, one of which double as a mic jack as well. Read the rest of this entry »

Let’s take another dip into the Newegg.com pool just to see what we can see. Just a quick swim on over to their Laptops / Notebook’s section reveals that Newegg’s second most popular laptop is Lenovo's Y550P (324156U). The Y550P has the new Core i7 processor which means that the machine can easily handle gaming, browsing, business applications, and still be ready for more. Read the rest of this entry »

Before we move onto Best Buy's desktops let's take a look at one final gaming laptop. The Alienware M17X-2308MBK is totally designed for high performance portable gaming. Alienware has a reputation for producing high end gaming rigs with the fastest hardware available; the M17X-2308MBK is no exception! Inside you'll find the Intel Core 2 (Q9000 (Penryn) which features 4 cores running at 2GHz. On the memory front there's 4GB of DDR3 SDRAM installed which can be upgraded to 8GB. Your graphics card is the NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 260M which has 1GB dedicated video memory, 112 CUDA core, and runs at 1375 MHz. The 500GB hard drive spins at 7200rpm and Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW drive has double-layer support. Other features include a wireless N/Gigabit LAN, 2 megapixel webcam, to 8-in-1 media reader, 4 high speed USB ports, and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. The operating system is Windows 7 64 bit edition. Overall weight is 11.68 pounds and battery life is up to 3 Hours, 26 minutes. Read the rest of this entry »

Best Buy currently has 9 laptops that are designed for gaming. Their top gaming laptop is the Asus G72GX-RBBX05. It's got a large 17.3" LCD widescreen, an (P8700) Intel Core 2 CPU running at 2.53GHz, 6GB of (DDR2) RAM, and a 500GB (540000RPM) hard drive. It's (nVidia GTX 260M 1GB) graphics card has enough power to handle most of today's 3-D games. Everything else that comes with this system is pretty standard: Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW (dual layer) drive, 1.3MP webcame, 8-1 in media reader, wireless N, and gigabit networking. Windows 7 64 Bit Version is your operating system, overall weight is 8.8 pounds. Best Buy indicates that the battery life is 1 hour, 23 minutes...that's pretty piss poor! Read the rest of this entry »

The Asus G73JH-RBBX09 is the one of the top selling gaming laptops at Best Buy. If you're looking for a large screen laptop that has oomph to play any of today's 3-D games this is it. It's got a larger 17.3-inch LCD which everybody seems to love, an ultra powerful quad-core Intel Core i7 processor (720QM), and a ferocious 8GB of GDDR5 memory. Look under the hood at the Graphics card and you'll find the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870. This graphics card is today's most powerful video card for mobile computing. Gamers say it plays Modern Warfare 2 and Crysis on maximum settings "like a hot knife through butter." Also inside is a 1TB hard drive (7200rpm) and Windows 7 (64 Bit Version). The think weighs 7.5 pounds and is 2.2" thin. Unfortunately all this power does come at a price: battery life is just under 2 hours. Read the rest of this entry »

This week Newegg's deal of the week is the Lenovo IdeaPad Y550-41865GU. This Lenovo is a mid range all purpose laptop the can be used to business use, gaming, or everyday computing. It's got a Intel Core Duo 2.13Ghz processor with 4GB the faster DDR3 RAM, and a 320GB hard drive. Buyers indicate that the NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M video card is a mid level card that packs enough power to play most games at mid to high level settings. It comes with a DVD±R/RW optical drive, a 1.3MP camera, wireless N WiFi, and Windows Home Premium. The 6 cell battery typically will last 2-4 hours. The Y550-41865GU is sell for $799 at on Newegg, $200 off the regular $999 price. Read the rest of this entry »

Asus has created an excellent laptop for the serious gamer who loves large screens. Their N61JQ-X1 has a 16" LCD (1366x768 resolution), weighs 6.5 pounds, and comes with some serious hardware for today's gaming enthusiast. It 's ultra fast quad core CPU (Intel Core i7 720QM at 1.6GHz) and video card (ATI Mobility Radeon 5730) easily churns out today's top games. Read the rest of this entry »