Over the past couple of years the cost of laptops have fallen dramatically, while at the same time becoming much more powerful. This has led to an increase in the use of top end laptops for gaming. But, just which one is the best gaming laptop. In my opinion it’s the Aspire 8930G from Acer. We will look at 2 configurations of this gaming laptop, one retailing at £1,200 and then a slightly more realistic one at £820. These where both released in the UK on September 2008.
Touch pads are terrible for gaming, read our review to find the right gaming mouse for you.
It use to be that Laptop screens came in between 14 and 17 inch sizes. So the high definition LCD monitors are larger than just about any laptop screen out there.
The SATA drives are a new development in hard drive technology. It resolves the bottleneck caused by the older interface between the motherboard and the hard drive, with the new SATA connection.
If you are going to get a high end laptop you might as well get one of the new disc drives. They can read conventional DVDs as well as the double sided ones. The double sided DVDs carry about x2 the capacity of the old DVDs. Also, you can watch blu-ray discs on this, which is a nice feature.
You can’t drag a clip on webcam around with a laptop, besides those are pretty fragile. So the built in webcams are good to have.
The differences between the two laptops: The higher end model has 1 extra Gig of RAM, a better Intel CPU and a slightly better Nvidia graphics card. The truth is both these laptops will run any game on the market and run it very well. You will only see the difference one year down the line when more resource hungry games are released. The difference in price is substantial at £400. So I guess it’s up to you which gaming laptop is best for your needs.
Consider a gamepad instead of a mouse: A gamepad, also called joypad or control pad, is a type of game controller held in the hand. This means that you don’t need a surface to use it on, like you do with a mouse. If you need to be very mobile with your laptop and you hate using the touchpad as much as I do the gamepad could be the right solution for you.
Gamepads generally feature a direction controller handled with the left thumb and a set of action buttons handled with the right.
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