Top 5 gaming notebooks

this list is missing the best one for the money in my opinion, the MSI GT780DXR-446US. It has the same I7 cpu as the rest but it comes with 16gb ddr3 ram, 1.5TB hard drive space(2x 750gb 7200rpm in raid 0) a blue ray BURNER full HD 17.3" dual LED matte screen, has a back lit keyboard with programmable multi colored lights similar to the alienware M17x, 3GB DDR5 video ram Nvida GeForce GTX 570M. and it doesnt have too bad battery life either for a high powered gaming rig I surfed over a wifi connection for over 3.5 hrs before I shut it down cause it was fixing to die. I owned a Alienware M17X r2 dual video cards I7 cpu specs not too far off this one but my MSI blows it out of the water and I paid 2300 for the alienware and only paid 1859 for my GT780. Much better deal so check one out if u get a chance it'll be worth it

This is currently the best one in the world: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/683697-REG/MSI_GX740_079US_GX740_079US_17_Notebook_Computer.html With an i7-720 Quad Core 6MB and an ATI HD 5870!!!!!! 1GB, and with a relatively-low price (1100$ Canadian) is the best choice for true gamers

Honestly speaking, you can get lower price laptop if you ship from oversea such as usa. By the way, you cannot tell the how fast the CPU is just by judging the price. For me, I actually bought a HP dv6 @ 1.5 k with core i7 and nvidia GT 260m, 4gb ram. When comparing gaming notebook, the first to look out must be the graphic card, the best graphic card available should be Radeon Mobility HD 5870 from ATi and Geforce GTX 480m from Nvidia, any laptop without anyone or even any two (in crossfire or SLI) of these shouldn't place on the first place here. After graphic card of course follow by the microprocessor, actually i5 with 2 cores should be powerful enough to handle all the mainstream games because not many games nowaday can make full use of the 4 cores and some even slow down in quad core systems. Lastly we should look into the RAM, the trend now is 4 GB or RAM, the more RAM you have in the laptop the faster the laptop will be in multitasking. 8 RAM should be more than enough because games nowadays still cannot make full use of the RAM, but you can run two games smoothly at the same time if you have more RAM, but just how many game can you play at a time? Beside all these technical spec we should look in, there are three more areas we can consider before buying any gaming laptop. First one should be the price of the laptop, this will be the main concern if your pocket is not big enough or you might think that there is no point to pay so much for gaming. In addition, there are other ways of getting the same laptop at a much cheaper price to make sure every cent you spent is worth it. Secondly should be the design of the laptop, if appearance is also your concern, then you really have to do a lot of research for ALL the laptops with the specs that you want that are available in the market. After that then compare and pick the design that you want. Lastly will be the battery life. In general, gaming laptops that can run for 3-4 hours are very rare and already very impressive. But if you got one which cannot even run pass the 1 hour limit and only plan to use it as desktop replacement, then just forget it and get a desktop which come with a better specs at a much MUCH cheaper price because there is no point to stuck beside a powerpoint when you are calling your computer a laptop. In conclusion, I think the laptops used in this ranking is relatively old even considering the date that this article posted and this ranking shouldn't take any sales data into consideration since more people buy doesn't mean a certain laptop is better because everyone's need is different. The needs of the majority cannot be used to judge on the need of a person. All of us, as long as a gamer should know that laptops or even desktops from alienware should always be the top of the list. They are the only vendor that provide crossfire or SLI solutions as well as an ultra high resolution RGB LED screen which can go beyond 1080p. RGB screen provide the most vibrant colours and most accurate colours. So just considering the price is being too super-visual, the one which we should really look into should be the "overall quality of the laptop per dollar"

Nice info! i want to share my favorite gaming laptop are Toshiba Qosmio X505, MSI GX660 and more at http://www.squidoo.com/GamingLaptopBuyingGuide

I'm a n00b at gaming PCs but why at this price, gaming laptops only at about 1.6 GHz CPU?

You sure the Acer Aspire 8942G is the best in terms of the spec and price ratio? Then what is this? ASUS G73JH-A2 Intel Core i7 720QM ATI Radeon Mobility HD5870 1GB DDR5 GPU 8GB DDR3 1066MHz RAM 500GB 7,200RPM Seagate HDD x 2 Built-in 802.11 Wireless A/B/G/N Windows 7 64-Bit Home Premium Guess what? It only priced at US$1501.76 (S$2117.48)at xotic.com 3d laptop and alienware are just paying for the 3D glasses and the brand respectively, while envy is just a copy macbook pro which not worth the money when hp pavilion is so much more worthy, Qosmio? Erm, never heard of it before.