In a previous article we showed you a top ten of some of the best 10 gaming computers of 2010. And as you can notice at the price rubric, 9 out of these 10 computers have prices bigger than 1,000 dollars, and some of them can even go as high as 4,000 dollars. There is one exception though, the CyberPower PC Mega Special 1 which costs just 825 dollars. Since a laptop is capable of doing the same tasks as a desktop computer, this means that you can also play video games on a laptop. But not just on any of them, and you will need a powerful gaming laptop.


At laptops it’s the same as on PC-s, and most of the powerful gaming notebooks cost way above 1,000 dollars. But just like as we seen earlier, there are some exceptions too, and you can also find some gaming laptops under 1000 $.

And about one of them we’ll discuss more today. We are going to choose the Dell – Studio Laptop with Intel® Core™ i5 Processor – Cappuccino, Model: S 15 Z – 3630 CPN. The original price for this model is 1,050 dollars, but Best Buy is offering now a discount of 120 dollars, so its price is 930 dollars. It may not be a laptop made specially for video gaming, but its features are quite good enough to support intensive gaming. It has one of the bests processors on the market right now, the Intel ® Core ™ i5 – 430 M processor which features a 3 MB cache and 2.26 GHz processor speed with Turbo Boost up to 2.53 GHz. The RAM memory is good too, good enough for multitasking activities.

This laptop comes with 4 GB of DDR 3 memory. Its optical drive is a Slot loading DVD ± RW / CD – RW drive and the display screen is a 15.6″ WLED high definition widescreen display with a 1366 x 768 resolution which shows movies and games in stunning clarity. For you to be able to store as many games as possible, along with other files (movies, pictures, music, documents etc), you will definitely need a large hard drive. And this Dell laptop has just what you need – a 500 GB Serial ATA hard drive with a good speed of 7200 rpm.

In case you are a big fan of video gaming you probably already know that you can’t have a good gaming experience without having a good graphics card. So this laptop has the ATI Radeon HD 4570 graphics which features 512 MB dedicated video memory for brilliant images. And in case you are not happy with the small display screen of 15 inch that is found on this laptop, you can connect it to a High Definition TV and enjoy movies and games at a much better quality. And you can do this thanks to the HDMI port found on this laptop.

The sound offered by this model is not the best one possible, and it has just 2 built in speakers of 2 W each, with SRS Premium Sound. But if you use some good headphones or a 2.1 audio system, you can solve this problem. Besides gaming you can do any other activity you want on this laptop, such as browsing the internet and video chatting with friends. It has a built in webcam with a microphone, and built in Intel ® 6200 half mini card (802.11 b / g / n) as well as built in 10 / 100 / 1000 Ethernet LAN for easy access to the internet with or without wires. And it also comes with built in Dell Wireless 365 Bluetooth 2.1 mini card, for connecting to Bluetooth enabled devices such as mobile phones, headsets or MP3 players. For easy transfer of files it also has a 7 in 1 media card reader, which supports Secure Digital, Secure Digital High Capacity, MultiMediaCard, MultiMediaCard Plus, xD-Picture Card, Memory Stick and Memory Stick PRO formats.

The Dell – Studio Laptop, Model: S 15 Z – 3630 CPN has 3 high speed USB ports and also one IEEE 1394 FireWire interface. It weighs 5.5 lbs and measures just 1 inch thin, so it is quite very portable. Besides the portability it also offers a really good battery life, meaning that you can easily take it with you when traveling and use it for a long period of time without having to recharge it. The battery can last for up to 6 hours and 3 minutes, which is really good for a powerful laptop. If buying it from Best Buy it comes with an installed version of the Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64 bit operating system and some other installed programs. So you can use it right after you buy it from the store. And finally this laptop is also Energy Star qualified, which means that it meets strict energy efficiency rules and uses less energy.

This was just one example of a good gaming laptop under 1000 $ , but of course there are many more other models. So in case you too are a big fan of video gaming, and you have a laptop that cost you under 1000 dollars, we invite you to tell us more about it and about the features it has. And of course, also tell us about the video games you like, and which can be played on laptops and which can not. Have a nice day!