"Gaylord" <bigsexy@clearwire.net> wrote in message
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> "Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
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>> The truth is that no laptop is truly suitable for gaming.
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> Maybe im wrong but the 1710 was voted best laptop for playing games on,
> with its 256meg Gforce 7900gs as standard, or
> the red edition with the 512meg Gforce 7950 GTX, a pretty powerful beast.

Barry's point, I think, is that laptops, unlike desktops, cannot be
easily upgraded. With a laptop, you can't install a new video card and more
RAM every 2-3 years like is necessary to do in order to keep up with the
ever increasing specs to produce decent graphics and decent speed. A laptop
like the 1710 is a great gaming laptop *now* but in 2 years it's going to be
completely behind and not able to be upgraded like a desktop, so instead of
just buying a new video card and more RAM, with a laptop you're stuck buying
a completely new machine every couple years.