When console gamers whine about the constant upgrades being too difficult to keep up with, PC gamers just chuckle under their breath and try their best to humor them. There’s something new every day, and you know that if you don’t get the absolute best gaming laptop or PC on the market today, it’s going to be obsolete by tomorrow. All we can really do is sigh; that’s the price you pay when you have a real passion for gaming.
With that in mind, here are a couple of the best gaming notebooks of 2008…
Best Performance
Alienware Area-51 m15x
The m15x may surprise you. It’s basically a top of the line gaming PC crammed into a notebook. The system boasts an Intel Core 2 Extreme X9000 processor and Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX graphics, and it’s equipped with a nice, sharp, fifteen and a half inch screen. It’s ultra light for portability, and… it looks really, really cool, with six lighting zones. This is why they call themselves “Alienware”; with the LED lit keyboard and touchpad, it looks more like the controls of an alien spacecraft than a gaming laptop.
The downside is the stiff price tag. Take a deep breath and sit down before we tell you:
$5000
Even if the m15x is basically the best laptop rig out there, and it’s not going obsolete anytime soon, the price tag really seems to limit its audience to the super rich, or people willing to take a second job just to play video games. Kind of a shame, really, but if you’re willing to spend that much on a gaming rig, you really can’t do much better. This is for the most discerning (and financially comfortable) gamers out there, but it is worth the price if you can afford it.
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