:Forest Folk

The last 12 months has seen a lot of attention thrown towards Microsoft’s Xbox 360, Sony’s Playstaion 3 and Nintendo’s Wii however a lot of interest has been seen in PC games. It’s obvious the Personal Computer is here to stay as a means of gaming.

Even though some manufacturers have put it a lot of effort, gaming desktops are usually thought of as being big, beastly, loud, overpriced and they are usually put in the corner of the bedroom. The consumer market has driven up notebook sales in the last couple of years. In fact in 2007 Laptop Computers were expected to take over their desktop counterparts in overall PC sales.

Despite the fact that that the majority of users don’t need mobility or even a laptop there is something about being able to move a notebook computer from one room to another and neatly packing it away out of site that we all find is a must have part of our lifestyle. The only complaint for gamers was that the majority laptops were not powerful enough for gamers. Any laptop marketed for gaming was also big, beastly, loud and just overpriced. Now things are looking different. First the Core 2 Duo processors started matching the pace of Desktop processors. Intel have done a super job marketing centrino and being the market frontrunner but AMD has pushed them enough to excel in the laptop market. Another contributor that has really been making gaming laptops a reality is Nvidia. The future of gaming notebooks seems good. Intel release the quad core processor in 2008. The Nvidia Geforce 9 series is also set for its entrance in the the market.