Gaming laptops?

[Ichigo]

From what I've seen a R7000.00 laptop can only do what a R3000.00 desktop can do. Office work.
It is flippin unfortunate.

Dont see ones I linked only doing office work

[axon1988]

Ichigo is right... if you look in the right places you can find some epic laptops that'll play most games fine.

[powderbucket]

I own a HP Pavillion dv6 which plays games fantastically. Then again, it did cost R12 000. That said, it has better specs than the entry-level Alienware going for R20 000. I've had it for a year and a half and it has yet to disappoint.

At the moment I'm playing Dead Space 2 on mine with all graphic specs set to high and it runs without any glitchiness or drop in frame rate. These mythical gaming laptops do exist! And not all will cost you an arm and a leg.

[simon]

If the laptop is going to cost me R8000 I might as well buy a R4000/5000 one and an xbox so I can play The Witcher 2 and Splinter Cell Conviction. Think I'll just do that :/ Thanks guys. Think I've got my solution.

Even for R5000 you should be looking at going Core i5 laptop, which will handle some older games fairly well, not really Witcher 2 but definitely games from 2010 to early 2011.

[bradbear117]

Dont see ones I linked only doing office work

Damn Im out of the loop! Ichigo FTW!

[Ichigo]

Damn Im out of the loop! Ichigo FTW!

Things have changed a lot compared to what it use to be

I remember my first laptop cost like 20k to do what these 5k ones do

[Achtung!Baby]

all current intel laptops i3/i5/i7's have the HD graphics intergrated on the cpu and the performance is roughly equivalent to an Radeon 5450 desktop gpu's imo.

I actually saw a decently priced laptop today for R6500. Was a Sony Vaio, intel core i3, nvidia geforce GT410M graphics card. 3 GB Ram. What do you guys think?

[axon1988]

I actually saw a decently priced laptop today for R6500. Was a Sony Vaio, intel core i3, nvidia geforce GT410M graphics card. 3 GB Ram. What do you guys think?

Zones usually have those for around R4000 and for R5000 you can buy something with a much better graphics card. The reality is that this is a mobile system, so everything is underclocked in a way to save on power consumption. So the core i3 in a laptop would be mediocre.

[DeaDm0nkeY]

Yesterday I played around with a Mecer "gaming" laptop (R6800). Not sure the model, but it had an i5 2nd gen, 4gb mem, 500gb hdd, and a 540M gfx card. It played MW3 maxed, BF3 (not sure the settings), Crysis 2. I know its not much info but I was impressed.

[Achtung!Baby]

Zones usually have those for around R4000 and for R5000 you can buy something with a much better graphics card. The reality is that this is a mobile system, so everything is underclocked in a way to save on power consumption. So the core i3 in a laptop would be mediocre.

I'm fine with mediocre. If it plays older games even with graphics turned down. I'm not going to be using it mainly for gaming. I just want to be able to play the games I already own. If it can play new games great if not it's not a train smash.

Yesterday I played around with a Mecer "gaming" laptop (R6800). Not sure the model, but it had an i5 2nd gen, 4gb mem, 500gb hdd, and a 540M gfx card. It played MW3 maxed, BF3 (not sure the settings), Crysis 2. I know its not much info but I was impressed.

Thanks, I'll look around a bit more. See what I can find. This town doesn't have many options.