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Gateway has it, powered by 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS, this gaming laptop is pretty affordable in the mid-range class. It has also 3GB DDR 2 RAM installed, and for $1400, it gets reviewed by HotHardware.

Generally speaking, it’s a rival for Dell XPS M1730. Gateway showed quite an impressive result in 3D benchmarking test, according to the following charts:

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Futuremark 3DMark06

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Company of Heroes

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Prey v1.3

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Other thing, Gateway P6831FX which carried a big and bulky 9-cell battery (7800 mAh) managed to survives about an hour and 40 minutes, on intense MobileMark 200 battery test. That’s pretty reasonable for a gaming laptop.

From HotHardware, here’s the performance conclusion:

The P-6831FX produced excellent scores in all of our gaming related benchmarks. Not even the Dell XPS M1730 with its dual GeForce 8700M GT’s in SLI could outperform the single GeForce 8800M GTS powering the P-6831FX.

Though Dell has since upgraded the M1730 with dual GeForce 8800M GPUs as well. It is obvious that the P-6831FX’s performance is bottlenecked by the low-end processor, but it still managed to produce amazing benchmark scores in our gaming tests. None of the other the mid-range notebooks in our test came close to the P-6831FX when it came to gaming.

Unfortunately the picture is quite different in productivity and CPU intensive tasks. It was easily outclassed in nearly every module of PCMark Vantage and performance in 3DMar06’s CPU module was also quite poor. The P-6831FX also feels a little sluggish in Vista which is noticeable during simple tasks like web surfing and word processing. However, this is to be expected given the P-6831FX’s low-end processor.

Overall, the P-6831FX provided top-notch gaming performance unmatched in its price range. Unfortunately the P-6831FX isn’t so much a well-rounded performer and processor performance left much to be desired. While the P-6831FX can handle basic productivity tasks without too much trouble, it’s definitely out of its element a bit when it isn’t running games.