Bino - That external monitor is going to be a problem. You can get some great graphics in a laptop, but only because they are generally running at the much lower resolutions of a laptop screen. If you try and get a laptop graphics card to run on massive desktop resolutions, that is probably going to not give great performance. And even if it could, I'm not sure the laptop's thermal system is designed to handle that kind of load.
--- Brian On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Bino Gopal <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Gary, I'm actually not planning on using the laptop screen for gaming; > I plan on connecting it to an external monitor, a Dell U2410 (two in fact > with a Matrox DualHead2Go so it sees it as one big 3840x1920 monitor) so > that won't be a problem! ;) > > Thanks for the note about Digital Storm though; will check it out... > > BINO > > > > Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:35:51 -0500 > > To: [email protected] > > From: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [H] PC Gaming on a laptop? > > > > > > Because of my poor eyesight, I really can't use a laptop as the screen > > is too small for me. But with that said, you might want to check out > > Digital Storm. They seem to be very well reviewed and I think they make > > some gaming laptops. It is worth a look anyway. > > > > Good luck ! > > > > Gary > > > > > > > > At 09:13 PM 3/13/2011, It was written by Bino Gopal that this shall come > to > > pass: > > > > >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 > > > > > > > > > > >
