Rob87

Double post, please delete

I understand that any type of card I could purchase today would be better than what I have now, but part of me wants to be able to say that just once I had the best GPU. Plus I may need it, as I tend to be in the habit of upgrading only every 4 years... Thanks Aram, for posting that, and like you I have some minor concern with melting out the connector with the extra power draw. But then, why even get a computer if I can't have some fun with it

I personally use a mid 2009 15'' macbook pro. I will agree that mac OSX is pretty flawless and it has some pretty fantastic features (when will windows get expose?). I started out in the light gaming camp, but am slowly moving to heavier stuff. I've done gaming on VMs with parallels, and bootcamp both. I will say that video driver support for virtual machines (with VM ware or parallels) leaves something to be desired. So I opted to run Windows 7 on bootcamp, with better results. I can at least game with some almost new titles at min settings... Bottom line, my opinion is that if you go with a macbook, game with bootcamp not, with a virtual machine. As has been said earlier, though, you may find yourself spending more and more time in your windows partition, just because you can't be bothered to restart. That's the position I'm in anyway.

Hello all, I'm hoping to upgrade to a gaming laptop in the near future from my aging 2009 macbook pro. I am a poor student and still scraping my pennies together, as such I have had some amount of time for independant research. I've pretty much decided to go big or go home with the GPU, I'm aiming for a 780m. I imagine it'll be night and day compared to my 9600 GT. So onto what I'm hoping for help with: I think I've settled on a Sager 8255/ Clevo 157sm. I'm hoping to play a little bit with overclocking, nothing serious. From the research I've done, the 180W power supply may not be up to the task. Is rigging a better power supply safe/advisable? Especially for a rookie OCer. If you some think it's a bad idea, is there a computer out there in a similar price range (~$1800) that could better handle the power issues? Thanks in advance for any help!