Best gaming laptop
December 8, 2004
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What is the best gaming laptop that has good battery life, weighs less than eight pounds, and costs less than $1,700?
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Submitted by:
Leomar Grullon,
via e-mail
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The bad news is that most great gaming laptops are pretty expensive and pretty heavy. One of our favorites, the Dell Inspiron XPS Extreme Edition, tips the scales at 9 pounds--too heavy to haul around on a daily basis.
The good news is that today's great gaming laptops are significantly lighter than the cream of the crop from a few years back, and we expect that trend to continue. CNET hasn't reviewed a laptop that fits your requirements exactly, but the 6.6-pound Acer Aspire 2020, while a bit more expensive than your target price point, offers smoking performance and five hours of battery life.
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Justin Jaffe lays his hands on lots of laptops, from the classy and cool to the really rotten. His mission is to cut through all the high-tech jive to help you figure out exactly what you need in a laptop and which ones are actually worth your money. His reviews and recommendations have appeared in publications that include Business Week and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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