Gaming Laptops and Prices

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I have revised this thread, going back to remove Microsoft Office, no extras like lap coolers, warranties, etc. As a result, prices have dropped on some of them. This was preferable to posting an entire extra post to cover something already covered.

In my online researchings, I ran into Mtech laptops. Why? Because though I like the power of a tower computer, something about cramming a lot of performance into something that is still portable appeals to me greatly.

So I searched the Web for relative price and specs of some top-line laptops

http://www.discountpcsales.com/cgi-b...key=mtechD9FHD

First up:

Mtech laptops, boasting themselves as the world's fastest laptops.

$7384

This is to start things out with a laptop that is close to the most powerful laptop you can find anywhere

17.3" screen, glossy, no 3D capability touted or offered

2 Nvidia GTX 580M GPU's, which requires dual power supply bricks, which the price includes

1 Intel Core i7 six-core Extreme i7-990X 3.46 GHz, 12MB L3 cache

3 250GB SSD's in RAID 5. (fault-tolerant plus speed.)

IC Diamond Thermal Compound on CPU AND GPU

12GB (3X4GB) 1333MHz

6X Blu-Ray burner/reader 8X super multi combo

Bigfoot Networks wireless-N 1102

e-SATA

This is about the fastest laptop in the 17" class available from Mtech.

I also checked out Sager notebooks, also touted as being very powerful and configurable laptops:

Sager 2-VPU
Also boasting as having the world's fastest laptop. Rebranded Mtech?
$6,154.00 configured almost identically to the Mtech:

This is to start things out with a laptop that is close to the most powerful laptop you can find anywhere

17.3" screen, glossy, no 3D capability touted or offered

2 Nvidia GTX 580M GPU's, which requires dual power supply bricks, which the price includes

1 Intel Core i7 six-core Extreme i7-990X 3.46 GHz, 12MB L3 cache

3 250GB SSD's in RAID 5. (fault-tolerant plus speed.)

IC Diamond Thermal Compound on CPU AND GPU

12GB (3X4GB) 1333MHz

6X Blu-Ray burner/reader 8X super multi combo

Bigfoot Networks wireless-N 1103

This is about the fastest laptop in the 17" class available from Sager.

Dramatically lower prices with the Sager e-SATA not metioned, a bit better network card than the that which is available with the Mtech, $1230 cheaper.

In any case, evidently, those are the two most powerful laptops available on Earth. I will keep looking at other brands, but I doubt they will surpass these, especially for the price of the Sager. Sager's in Canada, so it's Canadian bux, I think, for price.