What gaming laptop for around 2000 quid

OK - long story short as possible, in 2007 bought £2k laptop from HP, after 13 months NVIDIA graphics card fried, HP refuse to do anything without wanting a further £600 for parts and labour. Lesson learned. NEVER BUY HP.

BTW, I wouldn't get a Toshiba either. The one that I have spontaneously locked me out of the bios. Tried removing the cmos battery, tried all kinds of internet fixes, nothing worked. Come to find out, it was a really big problem that Toshiba knew about. They'll fix some of them for free, but alot of the models with the problem (like mine), didn't make it on the list for some reason. Now I have to buy a new motherboard...superclocked

Oh man, that sucks. Why the hell can't these companies act like they give a crap about their customers? I have visions of sales execs giggling each time someone buys their products. Anyway, thanks for tip, will look at Asus now.

Alienware M17x or M15x.

Also have a look at Sager Laptops, but im not sure in they deliver to the UK.

As you mentioned, Rock Computers are also pretty worthy.

OK - long story short as possible, in 2007 bought £2k laptop from HP, after 13 months NVIDIA graphics card fried, HP refuse to do anything without wanting a further £600 for parts and labour. Lesson learned. NEVER BUY HP.

Bought a Dell XPS M1730 in 2008 for £2k, and again NVIDIA card gives up the ghost after 17 months. This time had bought extended warranty from Dell, yay! But Dell unable to get parts for months, boo! So Dell give me a full refund. So now I'm on the market to spend around £2k on a laptop (up to a maximum of £2400, but would prefer less than £2150.) To get myself something that renders my games beautifully, at a high resolution with lots of the fancy effects turned on!! So far the only things I've found that aren't Dell or HP are Rock, and Toshiba Qosimo X500-10T (but the Tosh really didn't get me excited at all.) Figure now that things have moved on since I bought my XPS, I should be looking at Win7, 64-bit, 1GB GFX, 4-8GB RAM, and some fast disks. Any suggestions my learned friends? What would you spend your hard earned on? Cheers, Nicknmyers

Asus G73 Power Laptop

I would wait for this to hit the shelves.

Alienware M17x or M15x.

Also have a look at Sager Laptops, but im not sure in they deliver to the UK.

As you mentioned, Rock Computers are also pretty worthy.

anotherone10

Thanks for the pointer to Sager, it looks like they supply the identical kit that Rock does - really nice stuff

Looks like the current generation of dual-sli's will push me out of my price bracket, so maybe a single card option is the way forward, and considering the problems I've continually had with NVIDIA, maybe ATI is the way to go this time!

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Alienware M17x or M15x.

Also have a look at Sager Laptops, but im not sure in they deliver to the UK.

As you mentioned, Rock Computers are also pretty worthy.

nmyers

Thanks for the pointer to Sager, it looks like they supply the identical kit that Rock does - really nice stuff

Looks like the current generation of dual-sli's will push me out of my price bracket, so maybe a single card option is the way forward, and considering the problems I've continually had with NVIDIA, maybe ATI is the way to go this time!

If SLI is not an option due to price, you might want to consider that Mobility Radeon HD 5870's are coming out soon and as pointed out above will be in the Asus G73. So companies such as Alienware, Rock & Sager may announce laptops with the mobility 5870 in future months :D