Series 7 for gaming?

Hi, I was wondering how the Series 7 15" would compare to an alienware m14x. I want to do pretty intense gaming as well as Adobe CS work. I also have a desktop, so it doesn't need to be top of the line performance, but i'd like medium-high settings on games, and the portability looks nice on the series 7.

 

Here's a rundown of how the Series 7 GPU on the 15.6" variant handles currently released games. It looks to be able to handle current games at med-settings. Most games nowadays are meant to be playable on a wide range of systems. Valve and Blizzard do a great job of scaling their games. But if you are looking to play top-tier titles like RAGE or Battlefield 4, the Series 7 might not do so well.

 

I'm sure it'll play BF3 and Rage, just not at the top detail settings.

The real question is heat management, and we don't know anything about that yet. The M14x has very effective cooling, even if the fan is loud at full load. Thin laptops tend to have less effective cooling, due to less room for airflow in the case, smaller fans (size limitations), etc.

 

With the high-end GPU's hitting over 16,000+ 3dmark06 scores, the HD 6750m is definitely a mid-range GPU(around 9000). Which, is exactly what I've been looking for. In the Samsung 7, the 900p screen is a perfect match for the GPU. You should be able to run most games at native res.

A week or 2 ago I had the same model macbook that's in you sig. I played JC2 on it, and after the fans hit around 5400rpm, the semps for both the CPU and GPU stayed at or below 85C.

I heard the M14X ran very hot under load?

 

The MacBook Pro is also twice the price of this machine. That allows them to pump some more engineering into details like effective cooling, where a spec-sheet bang-for-the-buck bargain like the Series 7 has less money to spend on such things. I would not presume that just because Apple was able to squeeze effective cooling into a $2200 thin laptop, that Samsung will be able to do the same with an $1149 thin laptop with the same expensive internal components.

I've heard plenty of complaints about the fan volume on the M14x, but hadn't heard complaints about it overheating. I think it handled heat very well in the reviews I've seen.

 

I don't think that for such big companies R&D and engeneering are making any bump on the price at all.
The series 7 cooling system is a copy of the mbp ones = venting at the back near the screen hinge, it may be even better since on the series 7 there's a dedicated air intake at the front and two fan exhaust at the back while on the mbp air is sucked from underneath the keyboard.
Been there, done that, I came to the conclusion that mbp hardware is the same as regular mid priced computers plus the unibody and cosmetics.

 

I just think it's risky saying that ANY thin-design laptop with a powerful CPU and GPU has adequate cooling for gaming until we've seen some testing.

 

check out the new Series 7 GAMER version.

Samsung Announces New Series 7 Gamer Notebook Complete With 3D | TechnoBuffalo

Samsung Series 7 Gamer Notebook Hands On at GamesCom 2011 - YouTube

 

I never owned a Mac Book and for a second, I really thought that was the speakers.

EDIT: I was looking at the comments below the link you posted:

The vents seem to be pointing downwards. Engadget Link

 

That looks like a much thicker/larger laptop. Not like the thin, sleek other 7 Series models.