The PC Report

I have always been a PC gaming sort of guy, as I’m sure you know, but in all my years of PC gaming I just cannot see the point of gaming laptops. I personally play on my gaming desktop with my nice and large monitor and proper peripherals, and I paid less than half that of an equivalent laptop of the time. And I wouldn’t even consider playing games anywhere other than my house at my desktop.

Here is why you should never buy a gaming laptop, ever.

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It’s got a long name, and it’s mighty powerful – the Acer Aspire 8942G-728G1280TWN is the first laptop to use DirectX 11 for next generation graphics. But it’s not only this that makes this laptop so good, it also packs a 1.6GHz Core i7 mobile processor, 8GB of DDR3 RAM and the latest ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 graphics to push out the DirectX 11 graphics with (hopefully) amazing frame rates.

The laptop also packs an 18-inch full HD (1920×1080) LED display, dual 640GB hard drives for excessive amounts of storage and an 8-cell battery that probably lasts just over 30 minutes while gaming. Oh, and it will kill your back carrying it; it weighs close to 4.6 kg. We have no idea when it will ship, apart from the “2010″ ballpark and the price is still unclear but it’ll be expensive. Really expensive.

The most powerful 15-inch laptop just got a bit more powerful: it’s now packing one of the new Core i7 mobile processors on the inside. The Alienware M15x now has the fastest mobile processor available, the 2 GHz Intel Core i7 920XM, inside it’s massive 4kg, 4.8cm thick shell. Accompanying this CPU is a 1GB Nvidia GTX 260M, up to 8GB DDR3, a Blu-ray drive and your choice of either a 500GB hard drive or 256GB solid state drive

Of course, Alienware is known for some ridiculous pricing (the M17x costs around US$5,800 for the best configuration), and by using Dell’s online customizer, the M15x starts at US$1,499 and goes all the way up to US$4,599 for the best configuration. I still think that a gaming desktop is better value than a gaming laptop, but go ahead and buy this if you like powerful laptop hardware.

We have been seeing plenty of gaming laptops as of late, and this is the next one to claim the “world’s most powerful gaming laptop” title. This beast is huge, with enough width to have at least 2 USB ports on top of each other AND have more room on both sides. I would expect the laptop to weigh over 3kg

Onto the specs, in which we see some very similar things to Alienware’s M17x laptop: an Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme processor, dual GTX 280Ms, up to three SATA 2.5″ drives (HDD or SSD), up to 8GB DDR3, an (optional) Blu-Ray drive, a massive 18.4-inch screen with Full HD (1920×1080) resolution, programmable gaming buttons and a 3MP webcam. Of course, with all this stuff it’s bound to come with a huge price tag, US$2,999 to be exact

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Dubbed the “all powerful” gaming laptop, Alienware’s M17x has got a nice special edition red paint job to go with some solid components: namely the Core 2 Extreme Quad processor and dual nVidia GTX 280Ms. Alienware, a subsidiary of Dell, has taken the red streaks and highlights from the original “Space Black” color and chucked it all around the lappy. On the downside though, the new paint job will set you back $99 on top of the $1,799 for the laptop itself, totalling a staggering $1,898 for the SE.

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Today gaming laptop manufacturer Rock has announced two high-end gaming latptops named Xtreme 790 and Xtreme 840, both of which offer a blu-ray player, nVidia GTX 280M 1GB graphics and up to 6GB of DDR3 RAM. Both laptops also carry 8 gaming buttons that you can map in-game controls to, or run macros while your playing.

The Xtreme 790 carries with it a Core i7 CPU, up to 1.5TB of storage and a 17″ screen while the Xtreme 840 goes one step further with a 18.4″ screen, Core 2 Quad CPU and the ability to whack in 2 GTX 280Ms. The 790 will be available for US$3,259 and the 840 is a bit more at US$3,748 and both ship with Vista Home Premium (with a free Windows 7 upgrade)