With laptops becoming popular as well as powerful and portable gamers are shifting towards gaming laptops. The performance gap should always stay intact between desktop gaming machines and gaming laptop computers however it’s becoming smaller all the time with breakthroughs in technology and it’s getting to an extent where the levels of speed are becoming respectable for game players. The versatility provided by laptops just makes the choice that little bit more easier, especially for students who can only have one or the other.

When purchasing notebooks you can buy from the global brands or from the local outlets. Each channel has its own benefits. I guess you get peace of mind when buying from the larger oem’s. However more often then not, technical support is lacking, you don’t get any performance components, performance costs an arm and leg and there isn’t much choice of gaming laptops with the majority of them. Niche manufacturers can basically give you the specification you require. They give all the high performance components without charging premiums for them. The support is more personal and they usually take care of you. The main setback is that they could potentially go into administration so it’s important to ensure you have a good warranty in place.

When purchasing gaming laptops the cpu, memory and graphics card are the most important components one should consider. You need a cpu with a minimum speed of 2GHz and it should have two processing cores. Minimum requirements for memory are 2GB if running Vista but try to get 3GB or even 4GB if you have a 64bit OS. To play games you need to have a dedicated graphics card. 256MB is the minimum dedicated graphics memory to look for. A mid to high range video card should play all current and future games without any slow down. Anything better is a bonus and will just make frame rates a lot faster.

Retail or online? Where is the best place to find your gaming laptop or any laptop? Bigger brands would prefer you buy through retail but honestly there is so much choice on the web and its all much cheaper than retail. Fact is you will find it very difficult to find the same variety of high specification laptops offline and even if you do you will end up parting with too much.