A samurai might have carried a sword in the past, but the modern virtual warrior whips out one of these top-end portables instead.
Let's get this straight. Having a top-end graphics card (GPU) is only one part of the gaming equation. Until DirectX 10 gaming platforms start becoming commonplace, the GPU essentially handles only the eye candy of your favourite titles, while the processing performance of the machine does the actual physics calculation that makes your game oh so realistic.
But this begs a question. Why on earth would someone want to spend several grand on a portable gaming machine when, for significantly less, one could get a cutting-edge desktop with twice the performance power? Though online gaming is becoming more popular -- making LAN parties somewhat of a relic -- there are really few things in life more satisfying than seeing your opponent's face after killing his alter ego with an impossible headshot. A samurai might have carried a sword in the past, but the modern virtual warrior whips out one of these top-end portables instead.
Performance
Based on the punishing 3DMark06 benchmark, the following chart compared gaming performance between the various systems.
(Longer bars indicate better performance.)
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