If you need a laptop computer which one should you choose? There is a large range of standard laptops that are extremely low priced and then you have those gaming laptops which are usually built to spec. Though I think it depends on your needs you should always purchase the latest specification you can buy at the time. You never know when you may crave to play the latest game, only to find out your cheap laptop can’t handle it. Laptops for gaming are just high spec notebook computers which can easily run todays software and games which seems a smart investment if this is a long term purchase.

Intel has been controlling the notebook computer industry as long as I can remember. The centrino certification has always meant the customer gets a certain level of mobile experience however there has been a lot of confusion regarding what centrino notebooks are. Common misconceptions include thinking that just because the laptop has an intel processor that makes it a centrino laptop. A Few consumers still don’t understand that centrino is a marketing platform that implies the laptop has an intel mainboard, intel processor and intel wireless card.

When purchasing a gaming laptop the processor, memory and graphics chip are the most important parts you should consider. You need a processor with a minimum speed of 2GHz and it must have 2 processing cores. 2GB is the min amount of ram necessary for playing games. To play games you need to have a dedicated graphics card. Usually you get 256MB dedicated graphics memory. I think an Nvidia 8600M card should be good for playing all the latest games well. Nothing but the most powerful cards will do for extreme gamers.

Nvidia are about to release the Geforce 9 Series and Ati are also releasing new chips to compete so things can only look up for game players. Current memory prices also look like they will drop with the entrance of DDR3 memory.