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Yes you could , if you can afford the price?, i paid £1.600 for mine, bought it when it first came out, but now the price has dropped, its a real bargain.
Would you game on a gaming laptop?
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Yes you could , if you can afford the price?, i paid £1.600 for mine, bought it when it first came out, but now the price has dropped, its a real bargain.
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Ah see im the opposite, i dont like any other kind of laptop apart from the alienware ones. But thats me just ordered the laptop.
Base - Alienware M17x Base
Memory - 6144MB (1x2GB + 1x4GB) 1600MHz DDR3 Dual Channel
Keyboard - Internal UK/Irish Qwerty Keyboard
Video Card - 2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680M
Hard Drive - 500GB 7,200rpm SATA 3Gb/s HDD
Operating System - English Windows® 7 Home Premium (64 BIT)
Optical Devices - DVD+/-RW (Read/Write)
Sound - Creative Sound Blaster Recon3Di with THX TruStudio Pro Software
Wireless Networking - Killer Wireless-N 1103 a/g/n 3x3 MIMO with Bluetooth 4.0
£1429. I also went for the accidental damage thing too. Since im super careful with my gadgets, but the other half isnt. I'll also throw in an SSD,more memory and a bigger hard drive in the January sales. Fingers crossed i have it before december as im off the last 2 weeks in november!
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Sitting with a hot laptop, thats noisy with a very small screen and a terrible angle looking down for hours making my neck uncomfortable, with a tiny keyboard..... sounds like fun.... not.
Laptops in general for extended use are still horrible, a screen that is far far too low, a keyboard that is right by the screen and not particularly big. I see no reason to do so, I can sit in a comfortable chair, with a comfortable natural keyboard, with a good mouse, without having to "set up" where I am each time I move, with a big screen that I don't have to strain to read from or strain my neck to watch.
I get laptops for work, IF you go around to meetings and the like and need something portable, when given a choice between comfort and quality vs pointless downsides its a non contest. When you factor in cost and can put up a silent fast, cheap gaming computer with a great screen for massively less than a laptop that is even half as fast and will be much noisier.
If you have no other option, that's one thing, if you do I have no idea why people choose laptops.
Laptops in general for extended use are still horrible, a screen that is far far too low, a keyboard that is right by the screen and not particularly big. I see no reason to do so, I can sit in a comfortable chair, with a comfortable natural keyboard, with a good mouse, without having to "set up" where I am each time I move, with a big screen that I don't have to strain to read from or strain my neck to watch.
I get laptops for work, IF you go around to meetings and the like and need something portable, when given a choice between comfort and quality vs pointless downsides its a non contest. When you factor in cost and can put up a silent fast, cheap gaming computer with a great screen for massively less than a laptop that is even half as fast and will be much noisier.
If you have no other option, that's one thing, if you do I have no idea why people choose laptops.
Didn't realise the choice of mice was limited to desktops
Portability seems like a common reason for choosing laptops also going by the comments in this thread alone.
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I have a DELL Studio 15 (about the same age as the OPs DELL Studio 17) and it runs most modern games ok, albeit generally on low settings and it's capable but weak ATI 5470 1GB graphics chip does mean it can get hot, so it's fan does spin up quite loud.
However, I use it as a backup. My PC is what I use 99.9% of the time, only time I use the laptop for gaming is when I go elsewhere, friends come over and need a computer or my main PC is not working.
Basicly a PC is more customizable, generally more comfortable and cheaper and easier to both repair and upgrade. Unless they start making laptops that are completely modular, which I doubt will happen, then I will stick with my PC as my main gaming device.
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I imagine people use laptops due to the portability (as Scythian says) and since when can you not attach a decent mouse (and keyboard and even monitor if you so wish) to a laptop? I use my ex-pc mice on my laptop myself.
However, I use it as a backup. My PC is what I use 99.9% of the time, only time I use the laptop for gaming is when I go elsewhere, friends come over and need a computer or my main PC is not working.
Basicly a PC is more customizable, generally more comfortable and cheaper and easier to both repair and upgrade. Unless they start making laptops that are completely modular, which I doubt will happen, then I will stick with my PC as my main gaming device.
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drunkenmaster said:
I imagine people use laptops due to the portability (as Scythian says) and since when can you not attach a decent mouse (and keyboard and even monitor if you so wish) to a laptop? I use my ex-pc mice on my laptop myself.
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I would be satisfied with the performance.
I would NOT be satisfied with the ergonomics (speaking from experience). That is the only reason I don't use one at the moment - it's too uncomfortable to use for anything other than office work.
If I did have one, I'd have to plug in an external monitor, keyboard and mouse, and use it at home exclusively.
I would NOT be satisfied with the ergonomics (speaking from experience). That is the only reason I don't use one at the moment - it's too uncomfortable to use for anything other than office work.
If I did have one, I'd have to plug in an external monitor, keyboard and mouse, and use it at home exclusively.