Stefan Mileschin

Remember LAN parties? In some parts of rural America, we still don't have fancy DSL or cable internet connections, and we certainly didn't back in the mid-90s. Everyone was happy to lug their full-tower ATX PCs and 50-pound CRT monitors across the county just to play a few hours of Quake II or Starcraft. That's all ancient history now for most, but we're still having LAN parties, and so are folks elsewhere.

The thing is, the machines you're likely to find at a LAN party these days are less Chieftec and more like that Gigabyte P57X gaming laptop we just reviewed . Gaming laptops have come a long way in the last few years, and even more so with the ridiculously-efficient mobile graphics chips from Nvidia

http://techreport.com/review/31127/z...ni-pc-reviewed