Best Gaming Laptop for around £1,000

The words Gaming and Laptop shouldn't be used in the same sentence. I know you won't listen but this is a fact, one i and many other people have learned from personal experience.
 
Superewza said:
The words Gaming and Laptop shouldn't be used in the same sentence. I know you won't listen but this is a fact, one i and many other people have learned from personal experience.
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I have a laptop with a 2.8gig core 2 (roughly equivalent to an E8300 in benchmarks) and a 260m GTX which is very slightly slower than a 250GTS and can overclock back to 250GTS performance. Does pretty well for gaming at 1680x1050 and even manages ok at 1920x. As far as a laptop goes its a bit heavy but not too bad... battery life is pretty average - just over 2 hours normal use and around an hour of gaming.
 
just to note dell still have an i7 quad core studio 15 laptop with 30% as default and using a code and quidco also gets a further reduction -big saving and can be picked up for £650! for an i7 lappy its a steal comes with a 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HP 4570, which plays Left 4 dead 2 no probs

had mine 3 weeks now and she flies!
 
Superewza said:
The words Gaming and Laptop shouldn't be used in the same sentence. I know you won't listen but this is a fact, one i and many other people have learned from personal experience.
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Yeh true especially if you have some rebadged Nvidia G94 GPU. A lot of these "mobile desktops" with a full HD screen, etc., battery life of one hour, truck to transport them about; are a bit of a joke.

However I do really like my ASUS n81vp. It's only 14" (1366x768) - so is ultraportable. The low res. means I can game at high settings+native resolution on the T9550 + ATI 4650 (1Gb) with the older VALVE games I play (and it will even play Crysis on medium settings).

Anyone buying a laptop for gaming just now really needs to get themselves one with an AMD/ATI mobile GPU. Simply much better bang for buck at the moment. :D

Bob
 
what about the HP ENVY range, just over £1000, yet it comes with i7-QM, 4GB RAM and a 1GB 4830, comes with windows 7 Home premium 64 bit :)
 
CryptKeeper said:
For that money, wouldn't you be better buying a £400 non-gaming laptop and a £600 gaming desktop. Does anyone really play Crysis on the plane anyway?
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I don't know about you but I'm not taking my pc to uni...

And what else is there to do than games during boring colleges or between lessons ?

I'd buy a gaming capable laptop because I'd want more than 4+ year old games and openttd and trackmania to play @ uni...


What I'm saying is:
The words Gaming and Laptop shouldn't be used in the same sentence
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Is not true imo, there are more than enough situations where a gaming capable laptop would be a godsend, especially for students who live at home...
 
Or in my case I sometimes travel around, travel to see friends, tis quieter, uses less power, and my family foster for the social services, so sometimes can be worthwhile being able to leave with it!

I've played Crysis on high settings at 1920x1080...so much as its not common, laptop and gaming can happen ;) :p

Even the largest laptops are also a lot smaller, and a lot lighter than moving around a decent gaming base unit, mouse,keyboard,screen etc.

A lot of cheap 'gaming' laptops are worthless...but some good ones do exist.
 
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Alexrose1uk said:
Or in my case I sometimes travel around, travel to see friends, tis quieter, uses less powerful, and my family foster for the social services, so sometimes can be worthwhile being able to leave with it!

I've played Crysis on high settings at 1920x1080...so much as its not common, laptop and gaming can happen ;) :p

Even the largest laptops are also a lot smaller, and a lot lighter than moving around a decent gaming base unit, mouse,keyboard,screen etc.

A lot of cheap 'gaming' laptops are worthless...but some good ones do exist.
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As he says with a commanchi SLI..LOL

Im just about to order a G860 or G870 this week too, I work abroad for 4 weeks at a time. so its good to be able to play some of my favourite games when Im bored as hell, by myself in a foreign country. I certainly cant take my quad core, SLI'd GTX 280 desktop system with me..can I???? Oh..ye...lets not foret the 24" LCD that if I get it flat in my case, it 'might' be OK when I get to the other end.
High powerful laptops have their place....and one's that can put out 50fps COD:MW2 at 1920 res, all settings high get my vote!

Back to the op.....ive looked lately as I wanted to spend £1000 on a laptop that will play latest games well and last me a fair bit of time. Iv since revalued this and am now willing to spend about 1500£. Look at the standard Kobalt G860 system, with core i7 720 and mGTX 280 or Im sure ******** do a similar system for much the same price. How about the OcUk custom build ones?

Edit..wopps..didnt realise that was competitor...My bad!
 
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Superewza said:
The words Gaming and Laptop shouldn't be used in the same sentence. I know you won't listen but this is a fact, one i and many other people have learned from personal experience.
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Yes....if you're going to spend £2000 on one, maybe. I bought a Dell XPS Gen 2 four years ago and sold it on after a year and a half. Since then, the graphics card has broken, the USB ports are damaged, the sound doesn't work etc. etc. etc. For all that money I could have got a decent desktop and a decent laptop which is what I should have done in the first place. And what I have now.

But if you're gonna spend £700, it makes more sense.
 
seriously bag the i7 studio 15! for the discount available at the min its a steal! that spec can't be had for less that 1k,
 
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