Gaming laptops are becoming increasingly hard to find these days. With the slowdown of mobile graphic cards production, laptop manufacturers are forced to choose from fewer and fewer models. Luckily, there are a still a few cards that appear to be in moderate production that can deliver a high quality gaming experience in a reasonably priced laptop.
A few of the better cards still being produced are the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650, the nVidia GeForce GTS 360M, and the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870. All are leaps and bounds a head in pure frame rate of other competing cards. I spend a good week researching these laptops and have checked every benchmark possible to guarantee the quality of these cards. For the price, these laptops can’t be beat.
As always, prices for gaming laptops can change, if there is a price change or the laptop is no longer available, drop a comment below and I will try to find a comparable model with similar capabilities.
TOSHIBA Satellite L655-S5111 comes with the new Intel Core i3-370M. For graphics, the screen is a nice 15.6″ led back-lit widescreen and the video card is the well respected ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650.
Will play most newer games on med or high detail.
The Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q885 steps up to an NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M graphics card for high quality gaming. The GTS 360M is a great card that will play most games on high detail and deliver consistent reliability with its updated NVIDIA drivers and 1GB of DDR5 memory. The X505-Q885 also has a few other really nice features. It comes with 1066MHz DDR3 memory, a 18.4″ screen, a 7200rpm hard drive, as well as a 1680×945 native resolution.
If your looking for the balance between price and performance, this would be the laptop to check out.
Sporting the top-of-the-line NVIDIA graphics card, the GeForce GTX 460M, you can’t beat the price and performance of this machine. The TOSHIBA Qosmio X505-Q892 is a killer deal at this price. Most NVIDIA powered high end laptops go for over $1,400, this one is less than $1,200 (for the time being, I expect that to change).
Expect to play most modern games on ultra (max) detail and have friends and family drool at the sight of your portable gaming experience.
The MSI GX740-235US is a definit power gaming laptop. Many owners have vouched that the Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is capable of playing Starcraft 2 on high detail with no problems. That is mighty impressive for a laptop.
The rest of the hardware is no better then the recommended gaming laptop I reviewed above, but the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is a step ahead of the GTS 360. If your willing to shell out the extra cash for the better graphics card, you won’t be disappointed.
Disclaimer: The State of Affairs received no direct compensation for writing this article and is in no way directly affiliated with MSI, Acer, Toshiba, or ASUS. We are direct affiliates to mwave.com and newegg.com, but the affiliation does not sway or influence our recommendations.
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