15.4 inch laptop with the best graphics card

Same as title.

Currently looking at the 8662 which has a gtx 260m but are there any cards that are better in a 15.4 inch lappy?

thanks

 

The NP8662 is currently the most powerful 15.4" laptop on the market IIRC so no, you won't find any better than the GTX 260M in a 15.4" chassis currently.

 

^^ what Forever Melody said.

 

What melody said.

 

Okay, thanks =)

Was just making sure i didn't buy the 8662 then find out a couple days later that there was a better laptop out.

 

Define a couple of days I wonder when the 4870 GDDR5 model will debut (and when it will come in a thick *** 15.4" notebook).

 

Is the 4870 alot better that the gtx 260m that it is worth it to wait?

 

If you wait for the next big advance in technology you will never end up making a purchase, as something better is always around the corner. Get the NP8662 and enjoy it! Trust me you will!

 

^^^^^^^^^ What all o them said lol, and no you will see similiar performance between the 260m and the 4870... actually I would say the 260 is better due to psyX support

 

Heh, ya i guess so.

 

That didn't sound to enthusiastic. Have some confidence! That 260m will last you a good long while
Cool Runnings- Pride

 

The 4870 will not come in a 15.4" notebook, so dispel that as a possibility immediately.

 

Make sure to quote these exact words when some crazy PC enthusiast miraculously mods their laptop to manage a 4870.

 

I'm hoping it will =p

Ill probably order the laptop within the week even though i'm almost certain that i will get this laptop-I try not to make any rash decisions. =x

And thanks for the info Kevin

 

That's what they said about the GTX 260M initially

 

I think the Asus N81p is more impressive since it's a much small and portable 14.1" machine, and still packs quite a wallop, with only 65 watts max of power usage. Pretty ****** incredible I say and a great price too! Wish I had one

 

The 4860 should come sometime soon in the Asus K series. It should be on par with the 260m, if not better.

 

I know that saying gets beat to death but I finally realised just how true it was. I literally waited over a year for Alienware to fix the issues with their M15x and come out with it in black and they never did, and in all that time I could have been actually enjoying my games and not playing them on my current computer where I have to use the lowest settings. Trust me, it just doesn't seem worth waiting for the next big thing unless you know when the release will be and you know that's what you want.

 

Rule of thumb: if you need it, buy it. If you can wait, then wait.

It's that simple. There's no use keep waiting for ht next big thing, because there's always a next big thing lol

Believe me, before it had the GTX 260M, he NP8660(the ancestor to the NP8662) had a 9800M GT and it still held the title of most powerful 15.4" laptop for quite a while.

Really it comes down to what you need. A GTX 260M can most likely handle any game out today and next year(if not the 2 years after also).

 

the NP8662 must be getting quite hot imo.

 

nope, just loud.

 

Actually, the NP8660/8662 was praised for its superb cooling system. That's part of the reason of what makes it so big and weigh so much(t was ~7lbs last I checked).

The NP8660 which had a 9800M GT had lower temperatures than some lower end notebooks with lesser GPUs.

 

Hows your macbook when gaming? It must be able to cook raw meat when flipped over lol.

 

......... nice

 

lol it wasn't meant as an insult at all.
A friend of mine had a macbook pro and I was playing css on it about 3 years ago and it got amazingly hot. I just wanted to see if apple had improved on their cooling system since then or not.