What is the best gaming laptop available?

Zach B asked:


I want an alienware, but I’ve recently heard that the latest alienwares are getting bad reviews. So what is the best gaming laptop on the market?

4 Responses to “What is the best gaming laptop available?”

1. BurstKalbrik on August 23rd, 2009 8:47 pm

   Alienware laptops are much too expensive. You can get one with better specs for half the price.

   The Gateway P-7811FX is looking pretty good. Hard drive is small, though.

2. Mary B on August 26th, 2009 10:02 pm

   I recommend the Toshiba Satellite A215-S5802 15.4-inch Laptop ..It is a good one.
   AMD Athlon 64 X 2 Dual Core TK-57 Processor, 1024 MB RAM, 120 GB Hard Drive, Vista Premium

3. 16k-zx81 on August 27th, 2009 6:20 pm

   “but I’ve recently heard that the latest alienwares are getting bad reviews”

   Which model?

   You might want to have a look at some reviews for the area-51 m17x

   Its got a pretty good reputation.

   There really arent that many manufacturers that do dual 8800gtx’s in a laptop. In other words, you are hard pressed at the top end of the market to find many manufacturer that make anything as powerful as the alienware for gaming.

   Dell XPS are the nearest competition.

   Apart from that I dont think there’s much around

4. Zoe on August 28th, 2009 9:07 am

   There is also Sager (Clevo) and OCZ, both manufacturers offer laptops among the fastest in the world (Google: Sager NP9262, Sager NP5796 (17″, Single Video Card, Single Hard Drive, Dual Core), Sager M860TU (15″, Single Video Card, Single Hard Drive, Dual (and maybe Mobile Quad soon) Core), Arima W840 DI / OCZ Whitebook (17″, dual video cards, dual hard drives, dual and mobile quad core, Backlit Keyboard, upgrade to an old chassis that Alienware used once, can take ATi Crossfire).

   Also, both of those manufacturers are cheaper by thousands of dollars against Alienware, Dell, Voodoo PC, etc… with a better build-quality and experience (Sager has been in the market since the middle 80’s).

   The fastest gaming laptop in the world is the Sager NP9262, the only Quad Core Laptop in the world (for now, but the only that can take Desktop Quad Cores, for a long time), it can take Dual 9800m GTX’s on SLi Configuration (1 GB GDDR3, 112 Shader Processors), which is around 15 - 20% more powerful (single card) than the 8800m GTX (9800m GT) and faster than the 8800m GTX SLi too, it can take up to an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 at 3.0 GHz processor (it can take desktop processors with a TDP under 96W, such as the E6600 / E6670 / E8200 / E8400 Dual Core, and the Q6600 / Q6700 / Q9550 / Q9650 Quad Cores), up to triple 500 GB Hard Drives (5,400 RPM) or 320 GB Hard Drives (7,200 RPM) in RAID configuration (RAID 0, 1 and 5), it can go up to 4 GB at 800 MHz (PC2-6400) at RAM, or 8 GB (around 6 GB are available) at 667 MHz, not even the Alienware m17x is close to touching this beast.

   The best Sager Resellers around are Xotic PC and PowerNotebooks, so you might want to drop by their websites to check the many options they have on Gaming Notebooks (Xotic PC carries the Arima W840 DI too, even though it is not a Sager Notebook), also, their customer service is awesome, and Xotic PC offers an extra 2 years on parts warranty with the Sager NP9262 and the NP5796.

   You might also want to register at and create a new thread (following the sticky thread guide) in the “What laptop should I buy?” topic, lots of people would be happy to help you choose what is the perfect laptop for you, within your budget also.

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