Laptops, in many ways, offer some of the best gaming opportunities and experiences for hardcore gamers out there who not only desire comfort and mobility, but also exceedingly smooth, high-quality graphics and game-play that might initially be overlooked due to the powerful popularity and draw of home gaming consoles. But people shouldn’t stick their noses up toward laptops so quickly, as any laptop gamer can attest.
As for those of you who already
have perked ears at the possibility of owning a gaming laptop but are a bit
unsure as to what route you should take, we’d like to offer a few tips that
might help you along the way. Of course, one’s individual inclinations and
partialities will ultimately make the final cut, but when it comes down to it,
it’s portability and power that are the deciding factors. Basically, the more
juice your laptop packs, the less mobile it will be due to a shorter battery
lifespan and/or because of the laptop’s overall weight and mass. And if you
plan on using this laptop for purposes other than exclusively for gaming, that
brings a whole new set of options into the field.
Whether you’re fulfilling
quests with your friends and slaying the mythical on W.O.W. expeditions
or getting wavy in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, the three big factors
that come into play when choosing a gaming laptop are processors, screen
quality and graphics cards. The following top-notch three laptops have been
selected due to their high caliber abilities concerning each of these three
gaming specifics, and they cover a healthy price range to boot.
Alienware pulled out all the stops when they crafted
the Alienware 18 gaming laptop that basically outranks most, if not all, when
it comes to quality and performance. It’s like a sleek sports car – exceedingly
sleek, flashy and crisp built with dual NVIDIA DeForce GTX video cards that
offer killer frame rates, and there’s more than a terabyte flanked by the
storage and boot-drive. It’s the engine in the Alienware 18 that’s really
giving this gaming laptop some gas, and it’s locked, stocked and loaded
features offer the cream of the crop custom gaming experiences like never
before. But when it comes down to it, the owner of the Alienware 18 has to be
willing to shell out a pretty shiny penny, and if you plan on purchasing from
the company this will run you along the lines of $5,000.
Origin
EON17-SLX
Origin’s EON17-SLX laptop model is basically a quintessential
option for customizer-gamers who are willing and able to drop over $4,000 to obtain
some of the best gaming experiences of their lives. Not only can you personally
incorporate various reconfigurations on the laptop’s inner workings, such as
opting for a dual or single graphics card for instance, the owner of this bad
boy can also personalize the levels of memory and hard-drive pace, completely
souping-up a customized gaming laptop that’ll have your friends and brothers in
arms drooling with jealousy. Just be prepared to possibly be eating Ramen
noodles every night for quite some time to come. It’d still be well worth the
trade-off.
MacBook Pro with
Retina Display
While it seems that the majority of the best
games around are Windows-exclusively based options, Apple’s MacBook Pro with
Retina Display offers something extremely valuable – flexibility. Really, this
choice of a gaming laptop isn’t as capricious as you might think. The 15-inch
screen version keeps images looking clear and crisp, and the MacBook Pro’s
processors can run the race alongside Intel’s Core i5/i7 as well as graphics
cards from NVIDIA or Iris. Windows operating system can also be installed with
programs like Bootcamp, making the MacBook Pro with Retina Display an adaptive
gaming titan with mobility, power and that classic Apple visual appeal that
calls for a fairly hefty price. Expect to pay anywhere between $2,500 and
$3,500.
About Author:
Ezra Melino
is an all-around-geek turned serious blogger out of North Carolina who
not-so-secretly relishes an in-print love affair with everything from
technology and multimedia entertainment to film and at&t.
He has written for and managed multiple tech blogs that are devoted to
exploring new technological developments all around the world.
Ezra Melino is an all-around-geek turned serious blogger out of North Carolina who not-so-secretly relishes an in-print love affair with everything from technology and multimedia entertainment to film and at&t. He has written for and managed multiple tech blogs that are devoted to exploring new technological developments all around the world.