For those who are seriously into gaming these days, it's important to purchase the most powerful gaming laptop system they can afford. Knowing which laptop brands are the top gaming laptops can be difficult, however. Every website and every unit's packaging are going to tell you that their particular type of machine is the best on the market, but they obviously can't all be the best.
Therefore, you need to be able to narrow down the playing field, so to speak, in order to choose the best gaming laptop that is available. This article will give you a list of suggestions as to which models fall into this top category.

If you've always loved your HP computer but thought that the HP laptops were more geared to business than they were to gaming, you need to give them another look. HP now offers the ENVY series which will give you everything you're looking for. This system includes a base configuration made up of a 2.0 GHz 2nd generation Intel Core i7 processor, 6 GB RAM, a 750 GB hard drive, and a turbo boost system with speeds up to 2.9 GHz.

Additional features which will help you play your best include a 17.3" HD 3D screen, 1 GB Radeon HD 6850M graphics, and a backlit keyboard. You can expect to pay around $1,600 for an ENVY machine.

Dell has been offering great gaming laptops for quite a while now. In fact, they have been producing the most popular gaming systems of all brands. A model which it launched in recent months, the Dell Alienware M18x, is often considered to be the best gaming laptop of 2011. It has a 2 GHZ Intel Core i7 2630QM processor that has 4 GB of RAM, a huge 18.4" 3D HD display screen, and a 1.5 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX460M video card making it one of the most powerful units on the market. Prices for these machines start around $2,000.

Of course, in the end the decision is up to you. If you have an opportunity to play on any of these models prior to making a purchase, you can get the feel of what you're working with and what you'll be getting for your gaming bucks which will help you narrow the field down to the top gaming laptop for you.