Best Laptop Brands for Gaming

Gaming has surely come a long way from hand-held gaming consoles of yesteryears to some of the most powerful laptops specifically designed for gaming available today. The era of customizing a normal laptop to make it an ideal gaming platform is long gone. Almost all the leading manufacturers today have gaming laptops in their products list.

Gaming Laptops

These are specialized laptop computers with a powerful graphics card and a highly efficient RAM on board. As they resort to a powerful graphics card which comes heavy on their battery life, and hence they require a highly advanced cooling system to keep problems like overheating at bay. In these laptops, the graphics card is given more importance than the processor. Simply put, a gaming fan would be more interested in NVIDIA and ATI as opposed to Intel and AMD. In the list of priorities, the graphics card is followed by RAM and processor on the second and third position respectively.

Best Gaming Laptop Brands

While Intel and AMD battle it out for the best laptop processor for gaming, ATI and NVIDIA have locked horns over the issue of best graphics card. The competition is tough, and that makes it difficult to determine which company has the best models to offer. The Asus Republic of Gamers G73Jh is considered the best gaming laptop as of today, but it's difficult to say whether Asus will retain its numero uno position or whether Dell will topple it off the top spot with its line of Alienware laptops? Given below is a list which includes the top laptop brands which are available in the market today.

Rank	Brand Name	More Info
1	Dell	The distinction of being the best gaming laptop brand goes to the American multinational - Dell, and a large part of the credit for this goes to the Alienware series of laptops that it has to offer. Some of the most popular laptops in this category offered by Dell as of today include Alienware M17x, Alienware M15x, Alienware M11x, etc.
2	Asus	Coming a close second is the Taiwan based multinational - Asus, which has some of the best gaming laptops to its credit, including the famed Asus Republic of Gamers G73Jh - the best in market today.
3	Acer	At the third position, we have the yet another Taiwan based company - Acer along with its recent acquisition the Gateway. Among the various laptops that this brand has to offer, the Acer Aspire 8942G with an i7 processor and 8 GB RAM is perhaps the best bet.
4	Sony	When we talk about brands with astounding graphics and memory, Sony is not left far behind. While Sony Vaio FW480J/T and Sony Vaio VGN-Z591U/B have already consolidated their position among the gaming laptops in the market today, the lineup for 2011 also seems to be quite promising.
5	Toshiba	At number five position we have the Japanese multinational Toshiba with some of the best and affordable laptops for gaming to its credit. Though there do exist other top brands in the market today, Toshiba scores over them when it comes to the price factor.

Other than these brands, there also exist brands like the Hewlett-Packard (HP), Falcon, Maingear, etc., all of which have some good gaming laptops to offer. Though the gaming laptops that they have to offer promise a decent gaming experience, it is not at par with the performance of gaming desktops introduced by these companies. These laptops do have same advantages over the desktops, but when it comes to head-to-head comparison between the two, desktops sure have an edge over laptops.