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Originally Posted by Arclight
That's a good idea, if you can make it work. But it might drain it faster than it's recharged. 
To be honest, I'm terribly biased against laptops and pre-built desktops in general, because I know I can get the same or better hardware for less money. A laptop can be used for gaming, but you have to accept setting the options a bit lower than you would be able to on a desktop. A GTX260M or GTX280M sounds impressive, but in reality it compares to about a 9800GT with lowered clockspeeds.
In fact, that GTX280M is not a GTX card at all: it has the G92 core, the same core as I have on my 8800GTS 512, a card that's (I think) 1.5 years old. But to keep the temps and powerconsumption reasonable, they lowered the clocks for the mobile chipset.
They call it a GTX and charge you as if it were, when in fact they stick you with parts that were gathering dust for the past year. That's another thing that ticks me of, and probably means I shouldn't be the one giving "advise" about gaming laptops just now. 
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...0m,2353-6.html |
ALL True, but not the fairest comparison, for laptops you are paying the extra cash for the mobility - shrunken & more energy effcient components that (supposedly) cost more to design, develop and produce.
Big problem with modern GPUs (in laptops) is the temperature & power consumption,
GPU cores run MUCH hotter than your CPU which tend to level off around 60 oC or so (with a good cooling solution.)
A mid/highend Nvidia GPU operates at about 130 oC + with the stock coolers on most cards.
And the smaller the fan, the higher the RPMs..and no one wants a laptop that sounds like an Boeing 737 preparing for take off.