I just don't get these "gaming" laptops... you need to constantly have an external keyboard, a mouse, speakers etc... Anyone who actually buys these laptops and expects to be taken as a serious/professional gamer is a complete fool, plus at 20" it stops being a laptop and just turns into a portable monitor w/ a pathetic battery life...
Instead of this constant rat race between companies for who will be the first to stick in a faster processor or a better video card they should just focus on cleaning up their existing lineup of dozens of useless models with no difference between one another... It seems like to them its quantity over quality... sigh... all the stupid fools who are responsible for all the crap thats coming from Dell/hp and a dozen other companies should be fired...
Oh and another thing; how in hell are you supposed to play games on this if it starts lagging the moment to turn it on for the first time because of all the adware/shitware/crapware/spyware/malware/dosware? :p
Michael La Framboise - most all of your points are moot excepting the last one.
Anyone worth his weight on an FPS uses headphones - firstly, but more importantly, you mean to tell me you don't need a keyboard and mouse for your desktop system? I'd much rather lug around a 12 pound powerhouse than my fully-fledged (much more than 12 pound) desktop system. LAN parties and such help cultivate this theory. The idea behind this isn't the usability of a laptop, it's just the portability. A gaming system you can take anywhere (as long as you have power and internet access).
Granted, as soon as I got one of these systems (assuming I ever did) I'd format it, install XP, and find and install all the drivers. Goes for a clean setup.
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Michael La Framboise @ May 5th 2007 2:45PM
I just don't get these "gaming" laptops... you need to constantly have an external keyboard, a mouse, speakers etc... Anyone who actually buys these laptops and expects to be taken as a serious/professional gamer is a complete fool, plus at 20" it stops being a laptop and just turns into a portable monitor w/ a pathetic battery life...
Instead of this constant rat race between companies for who will be the first to stick in a faster processor or a better video card they should just focus on cleaning up their existing lineup of dozens of useless models with no difference between one another... It seems like to them its quantity over quality... sigh... all the stupid fools who are responsible for all the crap thats coming from Dell/hp and a dozen other companies should be fired...
Oh and another thing; how in hell are you supposed to play games on this if it starts lagging the moment to turn it on for the first time because of all the adware/shitware/crapware/spyware/malware/dosware? :p
Chris M @ May 5th 2007 3:06PM
Michael La Framboise - most all of your points are moot excepting the last one.
Anyone worth his weight on an FPS uses headphones - firstly, but more importantly, you mean to tell me you don't need a keyboard and mouse for your desktop system? I'd much rather lug around a 12 pound powerhouse than my fully-fledged (much more than 12 pound) desktop system. LAN parties and such help cultivate this theory. The idea behind this isn't the usability of a laptop, it's just the portability. A gaming system you can take anywhere (as long as you have power and internet access).
Granted, as soon as I got one of these systems (assuming I ever did) I'd format it, install XP, and find and install all the drivers. Goes for a clean setup.
Chris
Gus Gus the Great @ May 5th 2007 7:24PM
You just pointed it out to be what it's meant to be. A portable keyboard and monitor with a computer's components inside. :P Silly.
aStopperBy @ May 5th 2007 9:30PM
Hmmm...it doesn't seem to me that hp has a lineup of dozens of useless models.