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Many people think that games on the go can only be played on portable devices, but they'd be wrong. Gaming laptops are way better than you regular portable devices - they are further advanced and can play anything your heart desires.

Gaming Laptops

Gaming Laptops are the ultimate portable device. Forget your Gameboys, your Nintendo DSi, your iPod. This does it all but so much more advanced. You may as well sell your desktop computer; a beautiful gaming laptop can move anywhere it wants. It is an all in one portable device, and we can’t get enough. Technology evolved this amazing notebook and it was then transformed into an untamable monster. It can play everything you could imagine, Fallout 3, Crisis, Call of Duty. You can play a real time war game with people around the world. Twenty years ago that wouldn’t even have been thought feasible. Why do we even have wars anymore? We could just settle it over a game of COD on our gaming laptops.

Disadvantages to Gaming Laptops, Say it Isn't So

Obviously it has its disadvantages, sadly. The main one being that a good laptop is heavy, I mean if you have all that amazing hardware packed into it then unfortunately it can weigh you down. It’s worth it though right?

Another disadvantage is that it is expensive. With all the hardware thinned down and such it means it is a delicate procedure, barely visible to the eye. Delicate procedures = more money.

You can purchase a normal laptop from $200, but gaming laptops are from $800 realistically. For the real ball players you need a $2000 gaming laptop, and for the “must have it all” nerds, $4000 is the limit.

And then there is the customizability of it all, if you love messing with hardware (who doesn’t?) then you can upgrade parts to maximum potential, and decal your laptop to look pimped, again making it more expensive.

Another disadvantage! Gaming laptops tend to overheat, due to the huge amount of calculations that need doing to get your guy to move from here to there, and then everything else. It can heat up quickly, special cooling systems may be required, or you may be limited to the amount of continuous hours you can play. Battery power will also last for less time due to the amount of energy demanded by gaming.

Enough With The Disadvantages

Enough disadvantages, I’m sick of disrespecting my baby. Gaming laptops are different to normal laptops in a number of ways: They have extremely powerful graphical processing units (GPU), or graphic cards. These make fast calculations and take a load off the processor. This makes faster work of complicated algorithms to get your games moving. A slow GPU means you may start lagging at 5 frames per second, this is one of the most frustrating things in the world, and you will want to chuck your computer through the window. However a fast GPU will churn butter from that milky algorithm, and you will zoom through the game at 100 fps making skilled headshots blindfolded. A fast CPU is also often required although not as important as the GPU. It is still used massively in games to complete calculations. RAM (random access memory) is important in a good gaming laptop, RAM temporarily stores information quickly. It’s important because it can be accessed quicker than virtual memory and therefore speeds up your game play.

The bigger the screen, the better on a gaming laptop; imagine playing World of Warcraft on a pocket watch screen, almost impossible. Maybe that was exaggerated but you get my idea. If possible get a bigger screen, although it will be bigger to take around. You can always buy a special bag for it, but you know you don’t go out much.

A must have on a gaming laptop is an internet connection; no, dial-up doesn’t count. A decent internet connection will give your gaming laptop the ability to contact and play games with anyone in the world, and with a bad connection you aren’t going to be moving as fast as anyone else.

A gaming laptop is like a way of life. The more you invest in it, the more enjoyment you will gain from it.