Dell XPS M1730 Gaming Laptop Quick Guide

Specifications: Avg. price is £1500 17 inch screen, , 4G RAM, 2X 160GB memory, 5kg

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Dell XPS M1730 Review

The Dell XPS M1730 is a monster of a gaming laptop. It measures a huge 56mm at it’s deepest and weighs a hefty 5kg. However it was never meant to be the ultra-portable laptop one keeps hidden in their backpack. This is for serious gaming and multimedia apps. No wonder Dell have nicknamed the M1730 the “Beast”.
 The XPS Dell M1730 has a faux-carbon finish which is very much “in your face” and portrays power.
Owing to its large size it is able to have a truly large and well sized keyboard. This means that you will not feel cramped like you sometimes do with other gaming laptops. The keyboard is also backlit, which looks uber cool. Just above the keyboard is a small lcd screen which shows a range of information, like time/date etc. This wont enhance your gaming at all, but does look quite cool.

With a gaming laptop this big and powerful you would expect it to generate a lot of ehat, but owing to its large ventilation panels, the XPS is kept cool the whole time.
A pretty cool addition is the remote control to control your multimedia (CD’s,DVD’s, and media files) from a distance.

The screen produces crystal clear graphics, with an excellent graphics set-up (two Nvidia GeForce 8800M GTX GPUs in an SLI configurationtwo Nvidia GeForce 8800M GTX GPUs in an SLI configuration).

Yes the Dell XPS M1730 is expensive. Yes it is big. But if you want a top of the range gaming laptop…you simply can not go wrong with this baby.

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Asus Lamborghini VX2 Gaming Laptop Quick Guide

Specifications: Avg. price is £1999, 15.4 inch screen,Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 , 2G RAM, 160GB memory, 2.43kg

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Asus Lamborghini VX2 Review

The Asus Lamborghini VX2 is, as the “Vx2″ refers the second edition of the fairly popular co-branded gaming laptop between Asus and Lamborghini. Of course working with a luxury car manufacturer wasnt the brain-child of Asus, as Acer have been doing it for years with Ferrari. But…back to the Asus Lamborghini VX2. It really is a stunner of a laptop. It was avaliable in two colours, namely yellow and carbon, but only 100 carbon ones were made and have, alas, already been taken. The yellow does look cool though. On the outside the lid is a bright yellow and a raised Lamborghini logo and a smaller Asus logo at the botton right. Flip the lid open and the screen is a large 15 inches with a 1.3 mega pixel webcam (and built in mic) at the top. The keyboard if of exceptional quality with no flex at all. Beneath the keyboard is the large trackpad, which has a built-in fingerprint scanner. Surrounding the trackpad and going all around the keyboard is high quality leather with a yellow trim stitching. This might not be to everybody’s liking, but it does fit the look of the VX2 Asus pretty well. 

Now for the technical specs: It has an Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 which might not be the best of the best but will perform its functions well enough. Basically the Asus Lamborghini VX2 is definitely not the best gaming laptop on the market…not by a long shot. But is has high quality materials and looks fantastic. If you have the money, then this will get heads turning.  

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Asus G60Vx Gaming Laptop Quick Guide

Specifications: Avg. price is £1299 15.6 inch screen, , 4G RAM, 640GB memory, 3.4kg

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Asus G60Vx Review

The Asus G60Vx is a solid piece of kit from Asus. The G60Vx has a decent sized 15.6 inch screen and weighs 3.42kg. For any typical laptop this would be heavy, but for a gaming laptop it is actually pretty good. The lid is white with an illuminated badge on the outside, which really looks smart.
There is a chiklet keyboard, which makes it easier to push them faster, and of course they all have back illumination. The keyboard is solid with little flex. A well sized trackpad fits beneath it and also looks slick.

Now for the good stuff, the performance of the Asus G60Vx. There is an Intel Core 2 Quad processor, an NVidia GeForce GTX 260M card with 1GB of dedicated memory, 640GB memory and 4G RAM. This beast can handle most of what you can throw at it – be it playing your games at full settings or watching a bluray movie on the HD screen.

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Asus W90 Gaming Laptop Quick Guide

Specifications: Avg. price is £2399 18.4 inch screen, Intel Core 2 Duo processor, ATI Mobility Radeon HD CrossfireX, 6G RAM, 320GB memory,  

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Asus W90 Review

The Asus W90 is a monster of a laptop, weighing in at 5.2kg and being 18 inches. It is almost too big, but not once you hear whats inside it and how this bad boy performs. Asus have made the W90 to blow all other gaming laptops out the water and simply…to blow your mind!
You want graphics? The Asus W90 has a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X 2 – ATI CrossFireX graphics card, which is superb. Watching a film on the large screen the picture quality is just excellent and you can play your games at the highest settings.
You want sound? How about 6 Altec Lansing speakers and an integrated subwoofer
You want speed? 6GB RAM and a clock rate of 2.66GHz
The W90 Asus is simply packed with high specs which includes multiple ports and a bluray player. Yes it is big, and yes it is heavy. However it looks decent and pretty smart actually. The keyboard is study with no flex at all, meansing it will stand the pounding it gets from excited game play.

Overall, although it is expensive and large, the Asus W90 is amazinly powerful and will suit all your gaming and movie watching needs.

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Alienware M17x Gaming Laptop Quick Guide

Specifications: Avg. price is £1699, 17 inch screen, Intel Core, nVidia 260M graphics card, Windows 7,Many RAM options, many memory options,

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Alienware M17x Review

The M17x Alienware laptop featues an Intel Core 2 Extreme Processor which means that its fast…really fast. It can handle almost anything you can throw at it and still keep on moving along like a steam train. Play games, while laying your music in the background, twitter their demise live,  and even record your gaming for futur reference. The graphics are wonderfully powerful and create such vivid images in high quality HD. The Alienware M17x delivers dynamic lighting and shading with 3D film-quality effects.
Not only powerful, but the M17x also looks fantastic, with an aluminium case in either metallic silver or metallic blank. There is a subtle yet sexy light backing the keys and the mousepad that just further enhances how uber cool this gaming laptop really is.
Of course, like the Alienware M15x, the M17x also has Aliensense facial recognition software to protect you and your laptop.

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Alienware M15x Gaming Laptop Quick Guide

Specifications: Avg. price is £1199, 15 inch screen, Intel Core, nVidia 260M graphics card

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Alienware M15x Review

The M15x from Alienware is one amazing gaming laptop. It is in fact the most powerful 15 inch gaming laptop that Alienware have ever created. The graphics are simply mind-boggling and watching a full screen bluray dvd is crystal clear and shows no stuttering at all. (just make sure you dont put it in stealth mode). Also, playing any game that you want at the highest settings just feels great, especially with such a compact laptop.
At just 15 inches it is not tiny, but feels solid and compact. The Alienware m15x looks aggressive and in your face, while still not being too ’sharp’ but keeping defined lines. It is avaliable in Metallic Red, Metallic Silver or Metallic Black, and personally we think that the red looks awesome.

As a security feature the MX15 Alienware has AlienSense, which is advanced facial recognition software to protect your laptop and privacy.

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Alienware M15x Full Specifications

1GB NVIDIA^®  GeForce^®  GTX 260M
Intel^®  Core
Windows Vista
250GB
Bluetooth
4kg

The market for gaming laptops is growing as laptops become more powerful and it is possible to make upgrades to them constantly. Here is a list of the companies that make dedicated gaming laptops:

Voodoo, Alienware, Mayhem, Vigor, Sager, ASUS, Rockdirect, M-Tech, Dell

Most of these “brands” of gaming laptops are actually made by the same 2/3 Taiwan companies and just marketed differently. 
Alienware is well-known for the stunning and ‘out-there’ designs of its laptops, but dont assume they are all design and no substance. They have some of the most powerfu gaming notebooks around.
Rockdirect (a British company) also make very high quality laptops, however they are expensive. The main reason given for the high prices relates to the quality of the materials that they use.

Rock Pegasus 320 Gaming Laptop Quick Guide

Specifications: Avg. price is £700, 13.3 inch screen, Via Nano, 2GB RAM , 250GB storage, Windows Vista, Intel Core 2 Duo, nVidia 256MB, 2.15 kg

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Rock Pegasus 320 Gaming Laptop Review

The Pegasus 320 laptop from Rock is a starter version/edition gaming laptop that is made for portability. With the new Intel Core Duo processor and nVidia graphics the pegasus320 is exceptionally fast and powerful for it’s small size. Use it to play games, watch videos and general multimedia fun and you wont be dissapointed.
Some cool aspects include fingerprint recognition software and a great 2 mega pixel camera. The screen is 13 inches and the whole package measures just 320mm(W) x 235mm(D) x 27mm(H) and weighs 2 kg, making it a great ‘on the move’ gaming laptop.
Price-wise you are looking at between £600-£700, which really isnt bad for a laptop like this.

Rock Pegasus 320 sub-models

The pegasus 320 comes in two basic configurations. Below we will show only the specs that are different for each model.

Pegasus 320-P8400
Intel Core 2 Duo P8400, 2.26GHz, 3MB cache, £799

Pegasus 320-T4200
Intel Pentium Dual Core T4200, 2GHz, 800MHz FSB, £675

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Rock Pegasus 320 Full Specifications

• NVIDIA GeForce 256MB
• 13.3″ Screen
• Optional Blu-ray Optical Drive
• Integrated Wireless LAN 802.11 a/g/n and Bluetooth
• Fingerprint recognition
• 2.0MP webcam
• Microsoft® Windows® Vista Home Premium

Rock Xtreme 790 Gaming Laptop Quick Guide

Specifications: Avg. price is £2000, 17 inch screen, Via Nano, 3-6GB RAM , 250GB/500GB storage, Windows Vista, Intel Core, nVidia GeForce GTX 280M 1Gb, 1.4 kg

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Rock Xtreme 790 Gaming Laptop Review

 The Xtreme 790 gaming laptop from Rock is one of the fastest gaming laptops in the world. It is powered by the Intel Core i7 processor making it super fast and ideal for gaming and various multimedia functions. The nVidia high performance graphics are nothing if not exceptional, and this can all be viewed on the great quality 17 inch screen. This size provides a great balance between portability and use and is wrapped around a body weighing on 1.45 kgs and measuring 397mm(W) x 298mm(D) x 51mm(H).  

Xtreme 790 sub-models

The xtreme 790 comes in three basic configurations, which vary quite considerably in price. Below we will show only the specs that are different for each model.

Xtreme 790-I7-920
3Gb, 2 x 250Gb, 8x Dual Layer +/- DVD-RW, £2000

Xtreme 790-I7-950
4Gb, 3 x 250Gb, Blu-ray ROM / +/- DVD Writer, £2400

Xtreme 790-I7-975
6Gb, 3 x 500Gb, £2999

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Rock Xtreme 790 Full Specifications

• Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition
• NVIDIA 280M GTX 1GB GDDR3 High Performance Graphics
• 17″ Screen (1920 x 1200)
• Supports up to 12GB RAM
• 750GB SSD Hard Drive or 1.5 Terabyte Hard Drive
• Optional TV Tuner 
• Intel Pro Wireless LAN
• 4 x USB and Bluetooth
• Express Card Slot
• HDMI & DVI Port
• Webcam
• Surround sound
• High Definition Audio Interface
• 5.1 Surround Sound Output
• Microsoft® Windows® Vista
• Cyberlink PowerDVD
• Bullguard Internet Security Anti-Virus protection
• Battery: 6 cells Li-ion Battery Standard
• Special Features: 6.5 hours battery life