I have $3000 to spend on a notebook, please help!

[andoryuutenno]

So, I have $3000 and I want to buy a great notebook. I want to be able to do some serious gaming. It should have a superfast processor(3GHZ or so) and at least a 60G harddrive. If you know of any deals for me please contact me.

Thanks,

andoryuu

[mozilla4]

Do you care about weight or battery consumption?

[andoryuutenno]

I don't care about the weight. I know that a performance notebook's battery life isn't going to be that great, but I would like it to be no less than 3 hours.

[mozilla4]

I would wait for a couple of months for the new DX9 video cards to come out. They should be here real soon. Here is ATI's press release (http://mirror.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2003/4621.html). The NVidia products should be coming to the party a little later. I would probably get a Centrino (Pentium-M) laptop since they are extremely competitive, performance wise, with the P4-M and you get so much more battery life. They will be more expensive, last longer on a charge, and lighter. If you want to pay more and get those luxuries then go with the Centrino. Even though the P4-Ms outpace the Centrinos in some benchmarks (http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20030205/centrino-15.html#direct_3d_performance_3d_mark_2001_se), the Centrinos outpace the P4-Ms in gaming. If you can't wait then Dell has some good laptops with Mobility Radeon 9000 64MB chips.

[ua549]

Originally posted by andoryuutenno
I don't care about the weight. I know that a performance notebook's battery life isn't going to be that great, but I would like it to be no less than 3 hours. 3 hours is a very long time for any notebook to run on a single battery. If you need 3 hours, your best bet is to get an extra battery that fits the multi use bay. Rated battery life assumes normal business functions rather than intense game playing. Even so, my 5 hour rated notebook runs out of battery power short of 2 hours of 100% CPU utilization. That's with a new battery. Batteries start to lose the ability to fully recharge after a few cycles. The loss continues until the battery dies.

[Sh0w]

http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-1027-404-9805278.html?tag=byline

[Bateluer]

Aliewanre, with the 3GH+ P4 and the MR 9600. Nothing will touch it. Its heavy, and the battery life is fairly limp tho.

[splooger]

I'm waiting for the MR 9600 to come out and it's still not listed on Alienware's configurator :(

[Sandro]

I shall now point you to Sager (http://www.sagernotebooks.com). Actually, a better place to buy these particular notebooks would be PCTorque (http://www.pctorque.com).

[ImaNihilist]

The Alienware Area 51-m will NOT see the ATi 9600m, rather they are using the mobile nVidia GFX chip. Check out Press releases at nvidia.com

[andoryuutenno]

I went with the Fujitsu N-series. http://webshop.fujitsupc.com/fpc/Ecommerce/buildseriesbean.do?series=AN