hahahah sorry, im not buying it for $1700 or $1800 or whatever from gateway. I was just using that link to show the laptop. if i do get that laptop i will be buying from bestbuy because that one comes with 4gigs of RAM and a 320 gig Hard drive.
someone mentioned that it will last about 2 years for gaming. do you really think so? or would that be with using lower settings?
jon9o4
Lets put it this way, I bought a gaming laptop similar to yours-the XPS M1710 2 years ago. It had the same exact processor as the one in your Gateway, 1GB of RAM, and a 256mb 7900GS. Both the 8800M GTS and 7900GS are second string high end moble cards, the 7900GS answering to the 7900GTX, and the 8800 GTS answering to the GTX. Don't get me wrong, they're both still amazing cards compared to everything else at their respective time period. When I first got my laptop, the big graphics whore was Oblivion, and I could run it at 1440x900 on high, as which you'll be doing with Crysis, only at 1024x800. A year later, I was running most games at medium high(S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2...). Now, 2 years later, I run new games at medium at 1440x900, or on high at 800x600. I run Crysis on medium at 1024x800 with 25-30fps. So now you see where I'm going, about every year, you'll drop a performance level-the first year you play on high, the second on medium, the third on low and it's time to upgrade. Works the same way with desktops, there are few people using 6800GT's happily, mosst have upgraded. But you can't(well, you can, but only license Gateway parts, and I doubt they'll support your laptop in 3 years, Dell isn't supporting mine anymore, all I can upgrade to is the 7900GTX). So, depending on what settings you're comfortable with, your laptop will last you gaming wise anywhere from 2-4 years. Mines lasted me 2, at the end of this year I'm building a new PC and retiring my laptop to mobile operations and office work.
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