Who could forget that marigold yellow gaming laptop sitting around Samsung's booth at CES?
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In February, Asustek released a high-end gaming laptop sporting an 802.11ac-ready Wi-Fi chip from Broadcom Corp.
The eventual product was called the Razer Blade, a high-end gaming laptop that featured a dynamic keyboard with OLED keys.
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Kicking things off the 17-inch DIY gaming laptop, which takes a note from the DIY-styled Neutrino, but gets a much bigger form factor.
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These qualities put the Nomad line at the top of the heap in the race to be the best gaming laptop 2012 has seen.
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It shows a screenshot of Halo 4 on a gaming laptop.
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Kitted out with the specs of a mid-range gaming laptop, it may very well be that -- but we couldn't let the proclamation pass without giving it the once-over ourselves.
Razer promised it was aiming to iterate its Blade gaming laptop on a yearly basis, and despite the company's recent focus on tablets, it appears to be keeping its word.
Well, Origin and CUPP dropped a bit of a surprise at CES this year -- a supercharged 11.6-inch gaming laptop that runs Android 2.3.4 and Windows 7 simultaneously.
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Like its big brother the Nomad 17, the Nomad 15 is the only gaming laptop in the industry to offer hand-painted premium automotive paint jobs, free of charge on most configurations.
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Though the Series 7 Gamer has been available in Europe since last fall, the company decided to wait until Intel made its big Ivy Bridge reveal before introducing its first gaming laptop here in the states.
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Dell has already put 3D to good effect in its high-end Alienware models, but Samsung claims the screen on its new RF712 gaming laptop will have industry-leading brightness, helping it to overcome the dimming effect of wearing 3D glasses.
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The NOMAD 15 also delivers best-in-class network connectivity with Killer Networks "DoubleShot" technology, the combination of their Killer E2200 LAN and 1202 Wireless to game with less lag and make it quite possibly THE fastest gaming laptop in its category.
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The audio from the built-in speakers wasn't as deep as some other laptop gaming computers.
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Additionally, the PeeWee security suite also allows parents limit the amount of time children spend gaming and protects the laptop by preventing children from changing system settings.
Neil Young, the chief executive of Ngmoco, thinks that the iPad will encroach on both laptop and desktop PC gaming as well as living room gaming with consoles like the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
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And we can see why: all-in-one PCs don't have the modular, expandable design of a tower, and also aren't mobile like a laptop (not that gaming notebooks are portable, per se, but you get what we mean).
Now that Steam will be available for Ubuntu any time now, you might be interested in taking a look at System76's latest and greatest Ubuntu-powered laptop designed specifically for the gaming enthusiast: the Bonobo Extreme.
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" The laptop also curiously features a small "gaming LCD" display above the keyboard, for providing "additional information about the system or applications.
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Hot on the heels of announcing some fresh gaming notebooks, MSI is showing off yet another laptop -- albeit, one you can't buy yet.
Even the slightly recessed hinge lends the laptop an air of aggression that we kinda dig in a gaming rig.
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This article is for gaming enthusiasts who want a screaming fast, drool-inducing, beast of a laptop.
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Concocting an "in-car gaming system" that utilizes a GPS receiver, handheld computer, headphones, and a laptop in the trunk of the whip, the Backseat Playground would eventually turn real world "sights, attractions, and locations" into in-game characters and events for the lucky passenger(s).
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With a massive 1TB of capacity available, the Laptop SSHD provides the space needed to download, store and stream rich media content such as gaming or high-definition video without sacrificing performance or responsiveness.
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