Best Gaming Laptops of 2012 at Decent Prices

Unigamesity writes: "Finding the best gaming laptop – a laptop with top specifications and performance – at a decent price might be a real struggle today when you could end up paying over $2,500 for a decent gaming laptop. However, if you want to get the best gaming experience on the go, you don’t actually have to spend a fortune since there are still some very solid options available for gaming laptops at decent prices."

[Wizziokid]

Personally I wouldn't pay over 1k for a gaming machine anymore, you can get top gaming rigs for under that now, obviously you can still go all out for the 1k+ machines and if you have the money go for it, but for someone like me 1k is too much, I've picked out my gaming PC from Scan.com which is £800 and can run the works, obviously in a year or so it won't but hey that's the price with PC gaming I suppose.

[SPAM-FRITTER-123]

you spent £800 on a gaming rig thats gonna last you a year. i think Scan.com scammed you.

my PC is coming on 3 years old and still power houses any game.

by the looks of Crysis 3, i think that may be the time for some older computers to upgrade but mine should be fine.

[Zha1tan]

Crysis 3 doesnt have the gameplay to warrant upgrading, im only going to do it for a game that looks good and plays good and so far crysis 3 just looks like more of crysis 2.

[DudeJets]

Laptops are always more expensive than pcs though. My next pc I'm looking at is about £2.500 but my current pc is 7 years old and still plays 99% of stuff on high

[Wizziokid]

Yeah you're right, that's one of the main reasons I opted out of going for a laptop

[Somebody]

In contrast I'm still waiting for my gaming laptop to arrive. My old Celeron-powered Compaq Presario can only play classic games while my main gaming PC is too bulky to carry around. I have to stay at my work place for most of the week so carrying that behemoth is quite a chore, especially when I need to use a boat to get there.

So this year I opted for a gaming laptop. It's nearly half the weight of my PC (it still heavy compared to regular laptops) but at least I still get to play the newer games. I've stopped carrying the desktop around when a capacitor fell off the motherboard. Not really sure if it fell of due to travel shock or sabotage from an angry housemate.

I used to be against gaming laptops but now it seems that I need one.

[extermin8or]

Hmm I need a laptop for under £500 ish :/

[dirthurts]

Look into Asus, you can often get last years models of their gaming laptops cheap, and their gear is top notch. As a computer repair tech, I always prefer Asus equipment.

[JellyJelly]

Great specs, great build quality, and at a very cheap price. I have one myself and it's an excellent laptop.

[extermin8or]

cool thanks it ws between an Acer Aspire on an ASUS guess it will probably be ASUS then :p

[timur222]

Yeah Asus is the way to go.I have bougth mine last year,and i have pretty much no problems Whatsoever.

[ProjectVulcan]

I picked up a brand new Core i3 Medion on sale with a GTX460M for a pitiful 380 pounds about a year ago....This thing manages 1900 in 3Dmark 11. Thats not lightning fast, but it'll easily play anything on the upper range of settings. It was my bargain of 2011.

[sarlucic]

This article recomend laptops with integrated graphic hardware....

[extermin8or]

yeah not to great for gaming at all :p

[ginsunuva]

GIGABYTE U2442 is the best value for your money, and most power for its weight you'll ever find. Size of a macbook, half the weight, kepler gpu, ivy bridge. It runs BF3 at 40 fps on medium.

[extermin8or]

BF3 has become my benchmark for GPU's and laptops etc I look at what setting it can do however many FPS on BF3 :p

[Venoxn4g]

hey guys, what do you think about a samsung laptop at amazon.co.uk with bluray and 2670 i7 CPU which is less than 800 pounds.. I can't get a link though, cuz I'm on 3ds now all the time.. please reply someone, cheers