The notebooks are getting more and more popular these days and there are more and more models available on the market. Some of them are bigger, others are smaller, some have many features and technologies included, others have less, some are more cheaper while others are more expensive. There are so many models of notebooks on the market, that sometimes it can be a really difficult task to decide which one to choose. First of all you will need to decide which will be the main activities that you will be doing at your laptop, and then to think of how much money you are willing to spend. If playing video games is one of your favorite computer activities, the you will need a powerful laptop for gaming. Since the video games of our days are really complex, the laptop will need to be complex too…so it will also be quite expensive. There are some features to consider when buying a gaming laptop, and first of all you should look at the processor and at the RAM memory. The processor has to be a new model, with a good speed, and the RAM memory needs to be as big as possible in order to run very smooth at video games. To be able to enjoy the advanced graphic of a game, you also need to have a good display screen (and also a large one with at least 15 inch in diagonal) and a powerful graphics engine too. The new video games are quite large, so you will also need a large hard drive with a big capacity, in order to store as many as possible.


Some of the best laptops for gaming are those made by the company Alienware, but of course there are models from other companies that are good too. And today we’ll discuss more about a gaming laptop made by Asus, one that has very good features at a smaller price compared to an Alienware laptop. And this one is the Asus – Laptop with Intel ® Core ™ i7 Processor – Black, Model: G 73 JH – RBBX 09. This one has a nice and elegant design and it comes with a large display screen of 17.3 inch. This is a LED LCD high definition plus widescreen display with a 1600 x 900 resolution that will show movies and games with a great clarity. The processor of this model is a very good one too, and it is the latest and most powerful one from Intel, the Intel ® Core ™ i7 – 720 QM processor which features 1333 MHz system bus, 8 MB L 2 cache and 1.6 GHz processor speed with Turbo Boost up to 2.8GHz.

The RAM memory for this laptop is a very good one, and it is the biggest one we found so far as default for a laptop. Most of the laptops come with maximum 4 GB, but this one comes with 8 GB of DDR 3 RAM memory. The optical drive is a Multiformat DVD ± RW/ CD RW drive with double layer support and the hard drive is very large too. Again it is the best one we found on a laptop so far, and it comes with 1 TB of disc space (this means 1,000 GB) and a rotation speed of 7,200 rpm. As we said, a great gaming laptop needs a great graphics card, and this model comes with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 graphics with 1 GB GDDR 5 video memory for lush images. In case you want to see that video games or the movies on an even bigger display screen, then you can connect the laptop to a High Definition TV thanks to the HDMI port. It also has 3D Audio with EAX Advanced HD 4.0 and 2 built in stereo speakers for a great audio experience in video games.

It also comes with a really good media card reader, a 8 in 1 one with support for Secure Digital, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Duo, SmartMedia and xD-Picture Card formats. It has most of the ports you might need, including 4 high speed USB ports, audio ports, an Ethernet port and others. It is not necessary to just play video games on this laptop, and of course you can do other activities too. you can easily browse the internet because it has a wireless connectivity for easier access to the internet and a built in 10 / 100 / 1000 Mbps Fast Ethernet LAN with RJ 45 connector for quick and easy wired Web connection. You can use it right after you get it from the store, because it comes with an installed version of the the Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit operating system and with Adobe Reader and other software included.

So as you can notice this is a really powerful laptop, that comes with advanced features and technologies. But you will have to pay a lot of money to benefit from them, and the price for this Asus laptop is 1,600 dollars. It may seem like a lot, but compared to other laptops that cost 2,000 dollars it is really good. And those laptops don’t even have so powerful features. In case you too own this Asus gaming laptop, we invite you to tell us more about it…if you are happy with the way it works, if it worths 1,600 dollars and also tell us which video games you played on it. Have  a nice day!