gaming laptops...

[Assassin]

Hey im in the market for a gaming laptop to take with me on vacation trips and such. I would normally bring my whole comp into my dads Volkswagen Eurovan and we had a 400 watt power supply thingy hooking up to the battery, and it worked fine... until I got a bigger moniter...

anyways, i know about the area 51 from alienware and i think it seems pretty decent (pretty expensive, too...) but im wondering, are there any other gaming laptops that would be worth getting, and hopefully a little less expensive?

I know of one, and I think its pretty good, give me your comments on it... its the one on the left, under the title "gamer" in case anyone is wondering...

The laptop im thinking of getting...

[White Dragon]

Why dont ya buy a cheap smaller monitor???
And also keep ya big one afcourse!

[interman]

if you're going to go with a gaming laptop now and don't care much about the battery capacity then the alienware is a good choice. You will of course need a laptop with the radeon 9600 vidcard, but keep in mind that faster cards are on their way. You can go quite far with a 2.8ghz p4 and a radeon 9000 too, but if you want to play the latest in a way that's not too much slower than on a desktop then I'd want a 3/3.2ghz p4 or a64 cpu, and the radeon 9600.

personally im postponing my laptop purchase, just because what i consider desktop replacement laptops are way too expensive, and not even fast enough for my taste.

[ThunderBoy]

This is what I recommend

Voodoo PC does a great job putting powerful notebooks together and in all the compairisons I've seen they've acctualy beaten the Alienware notebooks in most benchmarks. If you opt to go with an Intel based nb as oposed to an Athlon64 one then remember that the new Pentium M chips out preform the regular P4s even thought the M chips run at a lower clockspeed.
You can't go wrong with Voodoo. :thumbup: