Gaming Laptop

[IonizeMyAtoms]

I'm kind of thinking about selling my desktop and picking up a laptop. The only thing is, I want to use it for gaming. I want a laptop that is at least as powerful as my current computer, which is:

AMD 3000+
Gig of ram
ATI Radeon x800xl
5.1 sound card of any kind

I really know nothing about laptops, all I know is that I've heard the gaming IBM thinkpads or whatever are really good for the price. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Ikerous]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834224016
Not the greatest gfx card, but the best/cheapest gaming laptop I've seen

 

[Narcolepsy]

I'm going to get ridiculed here, but the Dell XPS Gen 2 is currently the best gaming laptop out there. I have one, and it's incredible - the screen alone (17 inches at 1920x1200 resolution) is worth the price of admission; to me, it was an experience similar to seeing HDTV for the first time. With some speakers and a good mouse, you can have a near-desktop quality gaming experience.

XPS Gen 2 Specs

If you're really interested, just tell me, and I can give you more detailed impressions. The thing is indeed expensive, but there are ways to get the price to the sub $3,000 level if you know what you're doing. If you want to get the kind of performance you're getting now with your desktop, you're just going to have to spend that kind of money.

 

[IonizeMyAtoms]

I won't be spending more than $2500 Candian (about $2100 American)

 

[WhiteZero]

I got mine from PowerNotebooks.com for around $1800 and it runs HL2 on the higest settings pretty much fine.

 

[Narcolepsy]

I won't be spending more than $2500 Candian (about $2100 American)

Then I'm really afraid, on the graphics card front at least, you won't be able to match your current desktop. Laptops just tend to cost more than similarly configured desktop counterparts. If you can deal with that, the laptops that others have recommended here sound good (though keep in mind the 9700 Pro will be a sizable downgrade).

 

[WhiteZero]

This one comes with the mobile version of the GeForce 6600 in it. So I suppose it'll be pretty boss for a laptop. Plus the video card is modular, so I guess you can switch it out at a later time easily.
$1700 USD before cusomization.
Or This one for around your maximum price that has a modular GeForce 6800 on it.
All of them come with either 512 or a gig of DDR2 RAM standard.

Also, PowerNotebooks.com is the highest rated reseller on Reseller Ratings.

 

[Chris D]

Not sure what Toshiba laptops are like worldwide, but I have a basic home-use laptop from Toshiba and I think they're great, reliable machines.

They do a range called the Toshiba Qosmio (pronounced Cos-mee-oh) and they're geared towards gaming... They're actually commonly being referred to as "desktop replacements" now.