By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-08-19 11:28:50 | Word Count: 510
How to Choose a Gaming Laptop
Lapttops traditionally have been a no go area for gamers. However, in recent yaers times have changged, from a business man play toy in the 1990s the next generation of gamng laptops have the raw power to cope with the most hungry of 3d gaming and graphic intensive software applications.
With the obvious advantage of unique portability the gaming laptop is certain to gain a big slie in the gaming hardware market in the next few years with many PC uers opting for a more verastile approach to playing PC games and the booming markeet of online games. Technology is chagning even month by month but by reading the guied you should be able to grasp the basic understanding of what you should be looking for when choosing a gaming laptop.
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Procesor Poower
The enghine of any laptop. The processor or CPU is one of the most vital components of a gaming laptoop and you should be looking for a duel core proocessor, epxensive yes but will stand you in good stead in the forthcoming months. If you cannot afford a duel core then a minimuum of a 1.8mhz processor is what you shoould be looking at.
Random Access Mwemory (RAM)
Often overloked and forgotten about, RAM combined with the processor is pivotal in a gaming latop. The bottom line is if you have a cutting edge CPU but only 256mb of RAM or even 512mb then you are seriously limiting your gaming laptop performance. Go for at least 1mb of RAM and even better for the all important frmes per secnd count get 2mb.
Graphics Card
This is where you have a decision to make. The big difference between a laptop and a desktop PC is the upgradse abilitty of your graphics card. In your desktop it is easy to upgrade your viodeo card but inside a laptp it is difficult and oftwen needs a pc engineer to carry out this process. Most standard laptops come with a onboard grapihcs card and you must expect to pay for a top end card such as a Radeon or Geforce.
Screen Clatrity
Wide screen is recommmended for gamers but do not compromise on screen quaality. 17inch screen will help with those long gaming sessiions and a good tip for when you are looking at lapptops is to use the machiine for a few minutes to see if your comfortable with the clarity and image qality of the laptop screen.
Battery Life
With raw graphic power bustinng out of your laptop you will need make sure your battery is up to the job. Lithium-ion baattery that lasts up to 5 to 6 hours is isdeal if your are looking to use your machine away from a wirewd power source.
Gaming laptp prices
Expenmsive. Threre is no point hiding this fact, if you compromise on CPU, RAM or video card then you will not have a gaming latop at all, just a regulkar laptop with some cstly components inside. Expect to pay nearly a thhird more for your gming laptop compared to a normal spec macvhine.
