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    Does sony have a gaming laptop

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by dark_light, Jul 28, 2007.

  1. dark_light

    dark_light Notebook Geek

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    Well whats the best they have to offer. Gaming laptop
     
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    azntfl Notebook Evangelist

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    In Belgium, the best one goes with the name AR41S
    17" screen, C2D, Santa Rosa, BR, 2 GB RAM, 8600M, Vista HP
     
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    If your on a reasonable budget, the best they offer is an 8400 GT. Its pretty decent for most games, mainly medium settings on power hungry games. The FZ series 8400 GT uses GDDR3 memory I think, which gives a slight boost in performance. With GDDR3, its almost the same or just slightly behind the 8600 GS.
     
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    Sony doesn't really have a gaming laptop, but their product reps would like to think that the AR series is a gaming notebook. However, with only an 8600M and such a high price tag, many other similarly sized 17" notebooks (Dell E1705, Dell XPS, Sager 5790, etc) have much better gaming performance than it for a much lower price.
     
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