Best Gaming Laptop 2009

It's that time of year when the roundup of the year's best gaming notebooks are done. Just about all the manufacturers have come out with their latest by now, aiming for the holiday purchasing crowd. So this is MMO Explorer's roundup of the 2009 best gaming laptop offers.

For our lineup, of course, we're assuming fully-loaded machines with the top options available. Since they're new, reliability and other things can't be considered, so we're looking purely at power and performance. With all of that in mind, our favorite gaming notebook 2009 is...

The Toshiba Qosmio Gaming Laptop. It was a close call, though, with the Alienware M17 coming in close behind. What pushed the Qosmio up over the M17 for the best gaming laptop 2009 was its superior processor. That's because the Qosmio is nearly a year newer than its Alienware competitor.

The price tags are roughly equivalent, but the Qosmio has better performance and probably better graphics (though that's a little harder to quantify).

So the Toshiba Qosmio (fully loaded) wins our pick this year for the 2009 best gaming laptop.

What about those on a budget?

Well, for you who can't afford these top-of-the-line, high-priced systems, we give our budget gaming notebook 2009 pick to the Dell Ultra Mobile Inspiron 15z Laptop. This system has everything the gamer needs to play all but the most cutting-edge games with only the graphics card really holding you back, if at all. At less than half the price of our top pick, this is definitely a budget gaming notebook 2009 pick.

As a bonus, our savings link to get $100 off the Dell Ultra Mobile Inspiron 15z laptop is still active, so you can click that to save even more!