If you decide to buy a professional gaming laptop and you are ready to spend huge sums of money to get best gaming laptop, which gaming laptop from which laptop maker will you choose? What factors are important most for you? CPU? GPU? Appearance?...
Dell XPS M1730 became immediately popular after coming out to market and the f Gateway P-171XL FX (Gateway’s first ever gaming laptop) caught eyes since it was presented at CES 2008.
Popular gaming laptops with high quality are many (like Alienware Area-51 m15X, Sager NP9260, WidowPC Sting 517D2, Black-Hawk XR5, Fujitsu Amilo Pi 2550 & Amilo Xi 2428 ( with Penryn processor), Asus M51SN (with Penryn CPU), and etc).
Among these many gaming laptops I have chosen two to compare and also to hear ideas about these two gaming laptop: Dell XPS M1730 or Gateway P-171XL FX. I am going to have some looks on each gaming laptop to help you to decide easier.
At the first look the Gateway FX laptop is an attractive big laptop is clad with a glossy black plastic with orange, silver, and carbon fiber colored accents. It looks some light (8.3 pounds) among gaming laptops.
Image link: Best Buy
When you open the laptop you face a big spacious copper-bordered keyboard with five multimedia buttons, (DVD, Windows Media Center, and music quick-launch buttons) sitting above the keyboard and glowing orange, 17" matte widescreen display with a webcam (and a small blue LED light to show when the webcam is on) and a microphone above it.
Yeah, it looks pretty good. Asides the laptop you can find a 5-in-1 media reader, headphone, mic, FireWire, USB, Ethernet, HDMI, eSATA and VGA-out (on the right side), and an HD DVD combo drive, two more USB, and a Kensington lock ( on the left side and on the back side you can find extra-large 9-cell battery, AC adapter and 56k modem. (There is no PC card or Express card slot and there is no DVI –out put for HD content).
Image link: Best BuyAt the first look the XPS M1730 look like a giant heavy (11 lbs) handsome laptop.
The appearance and design of the laptop clearly show that it is a gaming laptop: the black chassis with a 'hydrographic' design pattern and one of Red, Blue, or White or smoke accent. Inside of the laptop is shiny. There are LEDs in the front speakers and within the touchpad, LEDs on the keyboard and the numeric keypad. Also, The LEDs lighten the XPS logos. The16 "Zone" colors are displayed all areas of laptop except keyboard and lid. There is an integrated LCD above the keyboard to show the condition of CPU and RAM utilization, date and time, with a stopwatch, and countdown timer.The keyboard is LED backlit.
The new Gateway P-171XL FX with the price of $3000 is a 17" desktop replacement gaming laptop based on Intel Santa Rosa platform and is powered by 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 CPU, 3GB DDR2 of RAM, single NVidia GeForce 8800M GT (512MB) graphics card, Dual 200GB hard drives (7200 rpm) in RAID 0 and HD DVD drive and 17" matte widescreen (1920 x 1200).
It runs on Vista Home Premium OS.
It features 802.11a/g/n, Bluetooth 2.0 and a fingerprint reader.
The professional XPS M1730 gaming laptop with the price of $3824 is a 17" desktop replacement laptop that is powered by 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 CPU (4MB L2/ 800MHz FSB); Dual Nvidia GeForce 8700M-GT in SLI (256MB each) graphics card and Ageia's PhysX card (to make games look more realistic), 2GB DDR2 of RAM, Dual 200GB 7200RPM Hitachi drives in RAID 0, DVD burner and 17-inch WUXGA display (1920 x 1200).
It features 802.11a, b, g, and n wireless, Bluetooth,( the option for Mobile Broadband WAN), A 2.0-megapixel webcam, Configurable speakers to have different effects and colors and Vista Home Premium OS. (There is no finger print reader).
By looking at the features and price you can find huge differences between there two laptops. The following gaming benchmark test and the comparisons between these two laptops show the efficiencies of these two laptops how they can respond to different current 3D games.
Benchmarks:
Laptop magazine has done the following tests on this gateway laptop:
3DMark03: 26,983 equal with Dell XPS M1730.
3DMark06: 4,110 (half of XPS M1730: 8,064).
86 frames per second on F.E.A.R. in autodetect mode (Dell XPS M1730 ($3,800), which features the same processor, was able to knock out 152 frames per second, owing to its two GeForce Go 8700M GT cards in SLI mode).
If you like to see the quality of game on XPS M1730 visit here.
Notebook review’s test showed that the dual 8700M-GT video cards of M1730 do struggle in the latest games but only at extreme resolutions with maximum detail settings. All in all the M1730 delivers solid gaming performance. For example this laptop delivered better performance in DirectX 9 and single GPU mode to Crysis Demo. So, the results for the Crysis demo to be less than desirable. This laptop delivered impressive performance to Call of Duty 4. The game was mostly playable at WUXGA and it seemed like I was getting more than the mid-20s average framerate.)
-Wi-Fi performance of 19.6 Mbps at a distance of 15 feet, and 15.9 Mbps at 50 feet for the gateway FX laptop and 18.4 Mbps at a distance of 15 feet and 16.7 Mbps at 50 feet for M1730 laptop .
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Read more:
At CES 2008: Gateway P-171XL FX Gaming Laptop with Nvidia 8800M GTS
Dell XPS M1730: Review, 3 Comparison Videos, 8 Pictures, Specs, Good & Bad Sides
Gateway P-6831FX Gaming Laptop Is Available at Best Buy for $1,350
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1 comments:
If you go to Laptop magazine.com and notice they updated their stats with the new gateway drivers that make the 3dmark06 score just 32 points less than the dell and that the gateway does tend to outperform the dell on cnet.com's tests.
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