Computers & Networking

[jimjimdp]

Just curious, What would be a reasonably priced "Gaming" laptop that would hold up to at least some moderately demanding games? I'm Joining the military so This is why a Desktop is out of the question, thanks.

[TheLexMachine]

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jimjimdp wrote:

Just curious, What would be a reasonably priced "Gaming" laptop that would hold up to at least some moderately demanding games? I'm Joining the military so This is why a Desktop is out of the question, thanks.

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There is no such product. Notebooks with gaming level GPUs cost big money these days and the multi-media notebooks, which is what would be considered "reasonably priced", no longer uses GPUs that are lesser versions of the gaming-oriented GPUs. When AMD releases their newest Fusion chips, you will be able to pick up a notebook that can do some gaming for a reasonable price, but that won't be for some time.

[Evo_7]

I'd have to agree. Without hitting maybe the $600-700 price range (and still hitting decent graphics), the AMD fusion chipsets to be released "should be" the best thing. In short if your in need of a good gaming laptop, lowest you might find it for is roughly $700-800 and have good frame rate and performance. I can say that you might luck out from what I know @ Office Depot. I know its odd to bring up but the unexpected effect created by AMD's release is that Office Depot is one of the only chains I know being more aggressive at disposing its older AMD~based PC's. I have seen last week a triple-core AMD Phenom with 1 GB DDR3 graphics on an HP 17" (or 15.4" ) and was priced roughly under $600. That's about the best deal I've seen as far as graphic performance and processor. 

The only thing I'd say that you might take advantage of watching the sales ads of Office Depot and Best Buy while keeping an eye on the HP website as well as other vendors (ie New Egg and Amazon but mostly New Egg). As AMD roles out fusion obviously the older chipsets will hit a lower price so I'd say its not impossible to get a nice gaming laptop with good performance around $600 but its more like side job to keep on track on this stuff.

I really should begin that blog of mine with all of this sh*t on it...