Do You Really Want a Gaming Notebook?

You can call a notebook a desktop replacement when it can perform most of the functions of the desktop while still being portable. A gaming notebook is - as the name suggests - a notebook on which you can play games, something you thought was possible only on desktops. Designed with gaming fans in mind, a gaming notebook enables a serious gamer to enjoy the pleasures of annihilating demons in his favorite first-person shooter even when he is on the move.

A gaming notebook weighs around 5 kilograms, that is about 12 pounds, which is too heavy to really be called a laptop. As one would rightly expect, a gaming notebook has high-tech components and accessories to provide a breathtaking gaming experience to its owner.

The Area-51m 7700 is a gaming notebook with quite a stylish appearance.

This eye-popping gaming notebook provides amazing detail and depth to a game with its 17-inch wide-screen LCD and a resolution of up to 1,680 x 1,050 pixels, supported by the powerful GeForce Go 6800 Nvidia graphics card and 256MB video memory. This particluar gaming notebook is powered by a Pentium 4 CPU that has hyper-threading technology and up to 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 PC-4200 533MHz memory. The Intel 915P motherboard on which the hardware of this gaming notebook is layed out supports PCI Express, dual disk drives and dual optical drives as well.

The stunning graphics, frame rates and audio further enhance the capability of this gaming notebook. The quality of the sound system is reasonably good - you get a 7.1-channel surround sound with four speakers and a subwoofer.

Another gaming notebook worth mentioning is the D900T with a slim and silvery look. With a 17-inch TFT screen, a full-size keyboard and a touch-pad having a scroll facility, this alluring gaming notebook can leave you gaping in wonder with its get-up - it has a blue light under the power switch and a front clock.

Powered by a Pentium 4 550 processor with a speed of 3.6GHz and a motherboard that supports PCI Express, this powerful gaming notebook has 512MB of 533MHz DDR2 memory. The basic model of the D900T gaming notebook comes with a 80GB hard drive space and an additional bay for another HDD with RAID 0 and RAID 1 support - upgradeable to 200GB.

If you are a crazy gamer and would like to play on no matter where you are, then you desperately need a good gaming notebook.  For some more information on gaming notebooks check this article: Custom Gaming Laptops - Five Things You Must Consider When Building a Gaming Laptop