Yeah coz I live in Australia Even though our dollar is as strong as yours I would still have to get it delivered and we have different power outlets than you guys do hehe 2,400 isn't too bad for such a powerful and new laptop I don't think.

I'm glad that it helped and I hope you're really happy with what you get. I'm not super-technical and I've learned something by trying to help so thank you too.

My G73JW came with a gaming mouse and I got a Logitech G110 keyboard to wire into it so I could try to play Morrowind because the Logitech F510 game controller couldn't do it or I just didn't know how.

When we get Skyrim, it's going to be so amazing. I'd like to encourage you to find an area in Skyrim to clear out, maybe near some flowers or waterfalls or lakes or something and take your wife and daughter on a little tour in the game to show them how beautiful it is. The reason is that I'm all for more women gamers and you can let your daughter pick flowers while you keep an eye out for dragons and protect her. If your wife is not already a gamer, she might become one or understand why you love it. That can only be good for you.

Good luck!

As someone who's been building computers for the past........10 or so years Im gonna have to agree with the consensus here. Obviously you would be able to build a desktop that would blow that laptop away for probably a 1000$'s less. Thats just a fact of life, but what your forgetting is the other obvious stuff: You can't upgrade laptops (besides RAM) and It's Much much much harder and more expensive to replace damaged components due to wear and tear (which is obviously more likely in a laptop). Needless to say I know my way around the parts and new technologies.

Whereas in a desktop, you just plop a new W/E in and your done. With a laptop you have to order the part, get it delivered, somes get it professionally installed (opening a laptop to even fix it is a liability)

You also list that you want to "be mobile" with the computer. But think about it, how often are you in an area away from home where you could take advantage of the laptop? probably never. Not to mention the horribad battery life it would have if you actually decided to play games on it. I know your looking for reasons to get it, and you want people to be like "YAAA MAN GO FOR IT", but you'll regret it a year later. Trust me, you sound just like my friend who ALWAYS buys gaming laptops, and every 2 years he has to get another one, whereas I just buy new parts. He spends 2000$ I spend maybe 300$.....i'd say im on the better end.

And I do like Asus laptops, they are nice. But almost 2600$ for a 460m Card.......thats pretty steep. But I mean Asus laptops are the BEST ones in your gonna get one......but there really is no reason too.

The only realistic and smart thing to do is get a gaming desktop for home, and then buy a cheap netbook for on the go stuff. Because you'd prolly save 1000 dollars going with a desktop.

That's the reason why I have a laptop

I don't need to be secluded in a room and anchored to a desk.
I can sit in the living room and still be semi-social with the wife after the kids go to bed.
I can watch sports on the TV while playing
Space saving not needing a whole room
Taking the 'puter to the local establishments for some me time

Most folks always seem to bash laptops because of the price difference to an equivilant desktop. To me, the fringe benefits are worth the extra money.

Plus, I buy the higher end laptops so they will still be relevant 3-5 years from now. Of course, I only buy a game roughly every 3 years as well

Any and all modern laptops or computers not running an Intel graphics chip can run Skyrim. Performance may lacking on some, but it WILL be able to run it.

@rumblyguts: #5 made me think of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12JTDp6xm18.

I'll say it again, I advise against this desktop replacement, it's a heavy beast of a machine that really won't give you the mobility you think it will, it is mobile in the sense you can move it around, however you will certainly notice it to carry it around and you'll regret it when you see somebody else with a PC that cost half the price and out-performs the laptop....



Not true, there was a thread previously where somebody posted a laptop down that had an ATI Integrated chip that to be frank, would have issues trying to run Oblivion... let alone skyrim.

Kinda off subject but I wonder how the gaming laptop will benefit from a possible computer chip material migration to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene#Graphene_transistors. I watched a NOVA about it and they say that with time Graphene will probably replace silicon as the material that micro chips are based on since they are able to have a NM process as little as .5 -1 NM and use very little energy and generate very little heat. Both of which are a major hurdle that Laptops have been trying to over come for a while now. But I'm by no means a Computer guru so this is just what Ive heard.

A 2.5 inch SSD can be placed in either a desktop or a laptop. Windows will start up quicker (it doesnt matter if you have a traditional BIOS or UEFI system, Windows will load up quicker on both if you place a SSD in there). I do have a traditional BIOS in my desktop but a OCZ Vertex SSD and once it finishes its POST its only 8 seconds before I am on the internet. On my laptop I have a UEFI system and it does its "POST" much quicker, however there is a lot longer loading time waiting for it to spin its 7200RPM drive. And on a traditional HDD even once you get to the desktop, you will still have to wait several more seconds for it to start up all of the system processes and services.

well thats a pretty damn good reason to get a laptop..

yea thats actually what i meant by "booting up".. english isnt my native language so i sometimes choose the wrong word to describe what i actually want to say

Honestly, it sounds more like fantasy then Lord of the Rings, and Lord of the Rings is one of the greatest Fantasy stories around. Personally I have no experience of the material, however as I am only too use to, many things in computing are over-stated or over-hyped and by the time they come around, they aren't as good as the things that they were suppose to replace. Right now according to your own source they are only at 240 nm, CPUs are already at 32nm and as these things usually go some company will already have silicon working smaller then that. Silicon will very likely get to that point before Graphene... Silicon after all keeps getting thinner and always making a fool of those that would proclaim it can only go down to a certain size.