Buying a laptop

[Homer]

So I'm going to Marine boot camp in 4 days, and it has come time to say bye-bye to my old desktop. After boot camp I wont have the room for a desktop, or the time to maintain one, so my plan is to waste all of the money I make in boot camp and SOI on a top end laptop(ok, maybe not that much, but I'm blowing some hard cash on this thing).

I want something powerful enough that I can play Oblivion on it... thats pretty much my criteria. I'm willing to spend as much as I have to on this, I don't want to have to think about my system for years.

Advice?

 

[duffers20]

If you are leaving it in one place and battery life doesnt matter, then go for a Athlon 64 cpu based laptop. If you need it to be good on battery life the go for a Pentium M based laptop. I think, but am not totally sure about this, that the 6800ultra mobile gfx is the best out for laptops at the moment. As for makes, Toshiba, Sony and Asus are the only good ones that spring to mind, but there are lots of other good makes.

 

[Lahire149]

and a gig of ram and atleast 60gb of HDD, and everything that duffers said

 

[$kelet0r]

dell xps or 9100 (what i have) if you plan on having a mobile desktop - battery life is poor but performance is great
acer also do good custom machines

 

[Homer]

On a few sites I've seen 7800s in very top end laptops, it seems to be 300 bucks more than a 6800, but considering this is a computer I want to use for 6 years I think I'll pay it. That is, if thats not some pre-release crap.

 

[$kelet0r]

then get a dell xps or a good alienware if money is no object

 

[Homer]

Well, I'm going to spend what I have to, but I would rather not spend 7000 bucks on a alienware when I could get the same thing from someone else for 3500.

 

[Combine Hybrid]

Get an Alienware laptop if you want something powerful and willing to pay alot of money