1k of a self built gaming desktop will eat even a Mac Pro alive in games.ryokinshin6x3

well that goes with out saying. you can never compare a desktop to a laptop. but im looking for a LAPTOP. i dont care how freaking awesome a desktop i can build would be, its not a practical thing to take to and from college.

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My friend cannot even play halo:combat evolved on his macbook...

soo...

powerwolff

that is exactly what i needed. thanks! anyone else have any recomendations for a 15in laptop? im sorta leaning towards the alien ware. i can get it for about 2100. 9800m, 4 gigs of ram, 500gig hard drive, 2.5 core duo.

um fx's are desktops :/ oh and im looking for a 15/16 in

ok ill check it out. and yea boot camp is what i was planning on doing.

yea i can get 200 off for a macbook pro. the other lap tops im looking at are the 15 inch alien ware, and the xps16

well the main reason i want a macbook pro over a pc is the mac software. garageband especially. its just alot better for my artistic needs than a pc. but if i can get the best of both worlds that would be fantastic.

i understand that. but will it be ok for just the occasional gaming? like im not trying to play crysis or anything, thats what my desktop at home is for. i just need one i can have at college to do college-y things as well as the occasional gaming.

if im mainly doing school work (word processing etc) and music and film production with a little gaming on the side (all valve products, CoD, any truely must have heavy hitters etc) would a mac book pro be ok for me? i know someones gonna say a gaming laptop is an oxymoron, but thats not the real reason im geting it. but i would love to be able to play l4d and tf2 from time to time. as well as ep3 and sc2.

thoughts?

play it with out the radar ant it becomes alot more fun. you actually have to look at the buildings where your going rather than just follow a blip.

wow thats increadable. its about 400 more than the alien ware and 17in not 15. is sli worth 400 bucks?