Laptop Gaming Help

Haven9270 · Yari Ashigaru Joined: Aug 03, 2004 Posts: 244

Hello,

I'm planning to buy a laptop so I was wondering:

Which is the most powerful?

I need enough power (or more than enough power)
to run the latest games (high quality 3-D ones I mean).

Yes I want a high end laptop.

However, problem is that is there a tablet PC that is as powerful or nearly as powerful?

I feel that tablet PC would help me big time (with you-know-what). But I want to play games too.

Worst case scenario, I'll bring my Graphire with me along with the laptop T_T

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

PS: Yes I do know that tablet PCs aren't popular. But besides wanting to have one becaue I belive it'd help me a lot, a teacher of mine who once had a manga portfolio reviewed also highly recommended it (showed me his portfolio - all drawn in the computer). And a half art machine and half gaming machine would be the perfect purchase^^
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aLuRbasE · Yari Ashigaru Joined: Jul 21, 2005 Posts: 388

Well this is in "Video Games" section so you must want a gaming laptop right?

Well one from dell is very suited for gaming, if you got the cash. ;>

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1710?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
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thugangel · Ronin Samurai Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 713

yuck, dell. good luck with that one. i hope you don't get ripped off.

this should give you an idea what a really high-end gaming laptop would be like: http://www.widowpc.com/2005/06/gaming_laptops.php?google-gaming-laptop&gclid=CKWUuKb2voUCFRWVJAodCEm0qA

oh yeah, try to get or upgrade the RAM. especially for laptops, gotta try to get 1GB at least. tablets sure are nice but you gotta pay extra for a good graphics editing to do works with it. thing about laptops and tablets are that the colors would look different from their screen than it would on a CRT monitor. but you probably know about that.

Haven9270 · Yari Ashigaru Joined: Aug 03, 2004 Posts: 244

GACKT

I only got $1500 budget to use for the laptop

I want a tablet PC capable of handling recent 3-D games

Or at least run this game (which I have) in max settings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnb18wnhhL8

Oh and yeah this game too (which I recently purchased) again in max settings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY_JkOvKeoI

Actually the games I play on the PC are games from Falcom
(http://www.falcom.co.jp/)

Other than that, I "may" purchase Phantasy Star Universe for Windows
IF there's a tablet PC capable of handling it (I'll just grab the PS2 version if not).

Hmmm.... saying that I want a hi-end gaming laptop is indeed misleading (sorry) as majority of what I need is for my art stuffs (Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash etc.) while the part that I need for gaming would only be devoted to those few games (again, Falcom games and PSU).

Oh and like I mentioned above - with a budget of $1500.

Thanks
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aLuRbasE · Yari Ashigaru Joined: Jul 21, 2005 Posts: 388

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Haven9270 · Yari Ashigaru Joined: Aug 03, 2004 Posts: 244

Maybe I could fork in some extra cash ^^

Though I've made up my mind that the priority is the tablet PC rather than a gaming laptop. If the most powerful tablet PC cannot handle my games then so be it - I'll grab a tablet PC anyway. But seriously I really wish it could handle my Falcom games at above minimum settings at least Smile

BTW

Here are the requirements of the Falcom games
(arranged from newest to oldest)

Legend of Heroes VI (plus VI Second Chapter)

http://www.falcom.co.jp/ed6_sc/order/order.html
(scroll to the bottom)

Xanadu Next

http://www.falcom.co.jp/xanadu_next/order/order.html
(also at the bottom but above the requirements for Legend of Xanadu)

Ys Oath of Felghana

http://www.falcom.co.jp/ysf/order/index.html
(scroll to the bottom)

Gurumin

http://www.falcom.co.jp/gurumin/order/index.html
(scroll to the bottom)

Ys Ark of Napishtim

http://www.falcom.co.jp/ys6/order/index.html
(scroll to the middle)

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It appears I'll be grabbing the PS2 version of Phantasy Star Universe^^

Again, I want a tablet PC that could run the Falcom games mentioned in above minimum settings.

But from the looks of it, the requirements seem pretty low though^^

I look forward to your recommendations:)
*crosses fingers*

Thank you very much for your help^^
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Rhysticgon · A-Source Staff Joined: Jun 25, 2005 Posts: 208

Im not sure this will appeal to you but if I was in your situation this is probably what Id do:

Buy a dell inspiron 9300 or higher notebook. It wont be cheap but it will be good, and of course if you want the silky screen coating itll cost a bundle more etc, the monitor size is large 17 inches I believe widescreen. at least mine is. uhh you can check www.edealinfo.com and under the dell coupons for 200 off 300 off 650 off respectively going higher as the price of your notebook gets higher. Of course you can just buy a gaming notebook elsewhere, but at least if you go with dell you dont have to worry abuot servicing your notebook (which I wont touch even though my desktop pc Ill mess around with all I want); to date, about a year or so now my dell inspiron hasnt caused me any problems, so it should be fine.

About the tablet part, if you do the above mentioned then I would prob go over to www.newegg.com and just buy a usb tablet. This way you can have a full end laptop for gaming, and whenever you feel like drawing you have a tablet with you. You might need to buy a bigger carrying bag, but wouldnt it be worth it? this method, depending on the options of the notebook you carry can set you back by a couple hundred extra dollars, or save you, it really depends on what specs you decide the notebook to be.

But I would definitely reccomend that, its the best of both worlds : get a notebook , buy a usb tablet add on. if you go by that, your options are very open now.

Goreandbleach · newbie! Joined: Sep 14, 2005 Posts: 30 Location: Greece

if i am correct there are laptops with dual core processor and two grapfhic cards (up to 512 mb).
I don't know the prices but i suppose they are under 2000 euro

thugangel · Ronin Samurai Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 713

Last time I heard, 1 Euro is equivalent to $100 USD.

v-boi2002 · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:39 pm Post subject:

Uh....I really think that's a little off. I expected 1 euro = $1.25.
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aLuRbasE · Yari Ashigaru Joined: Jul 21, 2005 Posts: 388

100 USD! : D

I would go to US every time i would buy something WOW! : O

Or order from there.
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thugangel · Ronin Samurai Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 713

ah, sou ka. haha, i guess i heard wrong. ^_^;

Jsy3k · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:38 pm Post subject:

thugangel · Ronin Samurai Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 713

lol, I just heard my parents talking about wanting to go to Greece or Italy, and I didn't really think hard about the currency.