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Gaming laptop

by Ragrits Jul 7, 2009 8:02AM PDT

I am looking into buying a laptop for uni which is capable of playing games online. Sadly, I can drive the car but I don't understand how it works, if you know what I mean. So when I see laptop specs I really don't know whether it'll handle games or just lag.

I looked around and there is an obvious line with gaming laptops as far as I can tell, which is there either

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by JonTitor Jul 7, 2009 1:00PM PDT

basic rule of thumb is if it doesn't have ATi Radeon or nVIDIA GeForce under graphics, then it's not for gaming. But there's obviously more to it after that

well I don't know many UK stores or how prices generally are so I went straight to Dell. And the Studio 15 seems decent while fitting your price at

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A nice gaming laptop?
by Arthasbeenhere Jul 8, 2009 3:41AM PDT

They have a pretty good gaming lap top to win at Mountain Dew's Horde Red Alliance Blue microsite:

http://www.mountaindewgamefuel.com/wow/incoming_earn.php?e=504&url=youcast

It's Alienware and pretty powerful from what I am hearing around the office(I work for the marketing company running the campaign for MD and Blizz)

What's better than free lol, and if you don't win the contest for the laptop there's always the other awesome schwag they are offering.

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How about...
by squidie Jul 8, 2009 8:13AM PDT

It does need to have a suitable CPU, and graphics/gaming adapter to play games quite decently. I have an ASUS X59GL laptop which has an Intel Core2 Duo (T5800) at 2.00GHz with on-board graphics equivalent to an Nvidia 8200. Though it plays games quite well, you aren?t going to be able to play anything like COD4 or Flight Simulator X because the graphics aren?t suitable and supportive. But for

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Gaming laptop
by Ragrits Jul 8, 2009 9:03AM PDT

If I want a laptop that plays games like COD4, would I have to spend in the region of

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Games
by Ragrits Jul 8, 2009 9:09AM PDT

If I want a laptop that is capable of playing COD4 and new games. Will I need to be spending

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this should do quite well
by JonTitor Jul 8, 2009 9:52AM PDT
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you know what
by JonTitor Jul 8, 2009 9:55AM PDT
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