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Greetings there, I'm thinking of purchasing a new laptop for gaming purposes really, I just can't handle a full size desktop these days due to a number of reasons.

My knowledge of laptops is somewhat poor, I currently own a Samsung V25, which is a pretty decent piece of kit for most things; except gaming of course. (curse you intel extreme graphics!)

So far I have found two possible buys, the alienware performance laptop, and a mesh laptop which looks much better spec wise then the alienware, but would it perform better? the price seems rather low for its specs.

What do you knowing people think, know of any other good desktop replacement style laptop vendows,? i'm looking to spend less then 1.6k really.

http://www.meshcomputers.com/updated/ultimapro171.htm
http://www.alienware.co.uk/system_pages/area-51m.aspx

Anyone able to lend me some wise words?

Thanks for any aid.

edit - thought I had best mention I'm uk based, and while US suppliers seem much cheaper most won't ship.

The Clevo 410E (Sold here as Elite M9X) is a very nice machine and fairly inexpensive for what you get; It also runs well under linux too.

Most tests find the Alienware Area-51 is slower than either a Rockdirect Extreme or an AJP D500E. All are serious lappies which cost a bomb, but are pretty much the fastest you can buy. Personally I'm looking at a Rockdirect Extreme, as they seem to have a better dead pixel policy (ask them when you order it, and they make sure you don't get a dead pixel - perhaps a stuck pixel though, but thats a different story). Only downside is the screen resolution isn't as high as the AJP or the Alienware (1400ish compared to 1600x1200).

Check out [href]www.whatlaptop.co.uk[/href] Look at the forums.

Oh, and I wouldn't buy just yet either. Basically it looks like a lot of changes within a few small months. Fair enough, no time is a good time etc. But lots of things are happening. Eg. PCI express, Dothan (and the Centrino 2 - forget the name - standard coming out at the end of the year), faster memory, chips, blah blah. All happening after a slow couple of years.

Cheers