Coming from experience in buying a Dell for gaming. Definately look at your choices. Angie has a Dell and, at the time, we upgraded a lot of stuff on it to be able to game. The downfall about doing it with a Dell is that it became big, bulky, heavy, and the battery only lasts an hour fully charged when unplugged. We even bought the bigger battery too. Her laptop ended up being 2 inches thick and weighed about as much as 2 gallons of milk. Sorry, thats how they compared the weight. Her laptop was a 2.8 GHz and my desktop was a 1.7 and mine ran faster. Dell has a thing for putting stupid shit on the computer to make it slow. Updated drivers aren't easy for the video card. We opted for the higher Ati Radeon card and I can't just go to the Ati website and download new drivers. They won't work.
Like I said look for your choices. Go to Dell and price a lappy and then price one at Alienware. Alienware might be a little bit more, but then again, it is a gaming computer and I think they just leave it with a bare install of Windows too. Alienware also has this trade-in thing too. So look into that. <---That is good if you want to keep your laptop up to speed with newer games.
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Alienware was bought out by DELL. That's why dell has some nice higher end proformance laptops.
At this time my favorite companys for laptops are by far Itronix(not so good hardware but practically indestructable) and Voodoo (straight proformance to the max).
At this time my favorite companys for laptops are by far Itronix(not so good hardware but practically indestructable) and Voodoo (straight proformance to the max).