The Best Power Laptops

The Gateway's glossy exterior almost makes you feel like you're slipping into a race car. Well, one that revs a 2.4-GHz Core 2 Duo T8300 Intel CPU, 4GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, and nVidia's GeForce Go 8800M GTS graphics board. From the font choices on the keys and color scheme to the glowing, backlit shortcuts atop the keyboard, this model is obviously targeted at those who attempt to "pimp their rigs." This laptop also hosts a slew of useful outputs, including a FireWire port, three USB ports, and eSATA and HDMI outputs. The trayless optical drive lets you feed the disc into the slot, but that's nothing that we haven't already seen in a MacBook Pro. Still, the feature is nice to see in a relatively affordable gaming machine.