Picking Higher End Gaming Laptop

[Anti_Bodies]

Hello everyone! I am ordering a custom gaming laptop and I need to pick between 4 set ups. [I can upgrade all the hard drives by 100 gb for about $100-200]. The batallion seems like the best in my mind, as im dissapoined by the Alienware specs. I can't get those any higher. And YES desktops are better but I already have 1 that shreds games and I NEED a gaming laptop, so here I am.

So my questions are:
1. Is having a single 460m bad compared to a SLI 460m? It's hard to find these benchmarks.
2. Which one will allow me to run games on highest performance?
3. Does anyone else have any good recomendations for other high end laptop companies for a PC under 3k?
Thanks!

Alienware M17x $2855

Intel® Core™ i7 2720QM 2.2GHz (Quad, 3.3GHz Turbo Mode, 6MB Cache)
8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz (4DIMMS)
1.5GB GDDR5 Nvidia GeForce GTX 460M
256 gb SSD


CyberPower: Xplorer Xtreme $2696

Intel® Core™ i7 960 Processor (4x 3.20GHz/8MB L3 Cache)
12 GB Triple-Channel DDR3
NVIDIA GTX 460M 1.5 GB (X2 in SLI Mode)
128 gb SSD


Batallion 101 X7200 $2836

Intel® Core™ i7 960 Processor (4x 3.20GHz/8MB L3 Cache)
12GB [4GB x 3] 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM
AMD Radeon HD 6970 2GB GDDR5 3D Video [X7200]
OR
NVIDIA GTX 460M 1.5 GB (X2 in SLI Mode) (-$29)
160 gb SSD


Sager NP7280 $2931

Intel® Core™ i7 960 Processor (4x 3.20GHz/8MB L3 Cache)
12GB [4GB x 3] 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM
NVIDIA GTX 460M 1.5 GB (X2 in SLI Mode)
120 gb SSD

[videobruce]

I don't see any AMD choices. Stop feeding the Wintel machine.

[nemowolf]

And YES desktops are better but I already have 1 that shreds games and I NEED a gaming laptop, so here I am.

So my questions are:
1. Is having a single 460m bad compared to a SLI 460m? It's hard to find these benchmarks.
2. Which one will allow me to run games on highest performance?
3. Does anyone else have any good recomendations for other high end laptop companies for a PC under 3k?
Thanks!

I find it highly suspect that you "need" a gaming laptop when you have a desktop. No one NEEDS anything electronic, you just want it more than other things.

1. Bad as in what? Are we comparing efficiency? Heat generation? Power usage? What are you looking to compare benchmark wise? Pure FPS in games? Time it takes to render? Performance in something like Photoshop?

2. All of them will run games on the highest setting, one may do better than others though ...

3. I dont honestly think that "gaming laptops" are more than a niche market, especially in the 2k-3k range. With the way the economy is going these days, not many people have 2k-3k range to spend on a "toy" so its hard to say where you can find one unlike say 3-4 years ago when everyone was throwing money around.

Again, the idea of a gaming laptop is almost a contradiction in terms so i wont digress down that path to save you from my personal rants. It seems like the alienware is using older tech as its running dual channel instead of triple channel, has the single 460M instead of SLI, and while it has a larger SSD it may not be the best one available as it may be an older style. Ive never heard of Batallion or Sager and i think Cyberpower is a joke. Not sure i would buy any of them, especially at that price.

Have you looked at a Macbook Pro 17"?