Soo...this may sound like sacrilege to folks here but I guess it might be time
for me upgrade my computer for gaming and I was thinking about going with a
gaming laptop (*gasp* I know!) and I was wondering what people thought of
that...
My roommate currently uses a Dell XPS 1720 from 4 years ago and it's worked ok
for him (it has had and still continues to have heat dissipation issues-what
you get for cramming full-size desktop parts into a laptop case I guess-though
he was able to play stuff like Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age, Arkham Asylum so it
seems like it's pretty decent) and that's my main worry about taking such a
path myself; well along with gimping myself on CPU/Graphics capability too.
The main reason for considering a laptop over a desktop would be b/c I've gone
from spending time in my room to being out in the dining room (now really our
den since there's three laptops and 2 of my 24" monitors and a 5.1 speaker
system on it at any one time, if not more!) b/c then I can watch the TV in the
living room while on the computer (which is what my roommate currently does all
the time too while on his laptop).
So I was wondering whether the tech had gotten to the point where certain
laptop models could adequately replicate what you get in a desktop as far as
CPU/Graphics go. What do folks think?
And obviously since you can't "build" a laptop (other than customize the specs)
would Dell and specifically Alienware be the only option for a gaming laptop,
or are there any other feasible options out there? Anybody on the list taken
this route and even have/use a gaming laptop or would everyone be purely
desktop for gaming...?
BINO
