Gaming Laptop's are improving in quality and hopefully coming down in price.

What system requirements should i look for in purchasing one in order to play flight sims, and first person shooters with good levels of graphics?

Any suggestions much appreciated!!

Hello Siditfc,

The same way you'd shop for a gaming laptop, is the way you'd shop for a gaming desktop.

The big three specs are most important - CPU speed, Video Card, Memory

If the laptop is primarily for games, and not as much for portability, you will want to try to find a laptop that doesn't have mobile processor. They are designed to conserve less power and as such, they won't give you as much performance. But non-mobile processors will kill battery life faster.

Get at least 2 gigs of memory and get the fastest available. And then look for a model that has a dedicated graphics card, not shared. Shared graphics memory will leech memory off of your RAM, which will reduce overall performance.

My advice is, unless you absolutely need a laptop as a portable computer and gaming will take second priority, don't get a laptop for gaming. You will notice pretty quickly how it will become obsolete very fast and you will have very few options to upgrade in the future. Primarily the CPU and video card...aka the two most important specs for gaming.

You are going to pay way more for a computer that will last half as long in the gaming world.

don't get a vista gaming laptop, vista kills life :| just kidding! if u get the option to get xp or vista & xp get them, because vista is NOT gd for laptop gaming, especially for the weaker systems