I want to buy a laptop this summer ( a gaming one ) but i don't know which cheap one i should buy. I usually have a vista computer when i buy one, so i want to know if a Windows 7 or Vista laptop is at least a decent gaming laptop
Make sure it has a non-intel graphics card.
Windows 7 is the best, but most of the stuff you need to use to play a good game are mostly on a HP desktop. trust me those are the best , and make sure you get an updated and most highly efficient graphics card. hope this helps :)
Windows 7 is a fine OS to play games over. You will want to focus on the graphics card of the computer if your looking to game. And unfortunately the words cheap,gaming and laptop don't go hand and hand. So if you don't have alot of money to put in then i recommend taking the desktop path instead of the laptop for gaming. Good luck hope i helped.
To answer the question you asked. No. Not all Windows 7/Vista laptops are good or decent gaming laptops. The word Cheap and the phrase Gaming Laptop do not go together. You should realize that if a laptop can play games well, it can do EVERYTHING ELSE well. So, if a laptop is great for games, video editing, multi-media dislay, internet usage, office usage, you-name-it usage, then why would it ever be cheap? The laptops that are cheap, are good for surfing the net and watching movies. Just because it has Windows 7 or Vista, does not automatically make it a powerful laptop. end of line
Serious gamers primarily us XP and Linux for two reason, they have 95% of the games and have OS that devote more processor power and RAM to games and apps than Vista. Many games that work in XP will not work in Vista. The only advantage in using Vista is using the Direct 10 X, most who have tried the few games using that are are not impressed with the standard or the games. Many find by running those games in the enhanced mode in XP is actually better than using Direct 10 X. With respect to XP history as indicated above, I believe one of the posters has confused XP with the roll out of NT. When most of the bugs were worked out with NT, XP came out and while there were some problems, I can assure anyone, it was absolutely nothing on the scale of what happened to Vista. The reason was XP was released on Business customers first and the system was not forced on the consumer until will after the software was proven. At one point Microsoft was selling 2000, NT, and XP all at the same time. And there were still ways to load Windows 98 if you wanted it. With Vista, in the beginning, nothing worked and it was being forced on you. MS performed a lot of the quick fixes at the expense of users having to add a ton of RAM and even then it will take Windows 7 to bring everything back in line the way it should have been when it was first rolled out.
