Ah, I never took it that you were bad mouthing my system. Ummm, never mind that. I wasn't sure what your wife had in her system. Yes, she does have more umph than mine. .....I agree ... regular Dell's off the shelf shouldn't be bought for gaming and it doesn't sound like an off the shelf model that she has. Something seems weird, though. Why is it that I can play the heftier games smoothly, while her system stutters? I paid a little over $1700 for this laptop back in 2011. The only time I really had trouble was when I downloaded the Star Citizen hanger and flight simulator. It was so choppy I couldn't do anything in it. I ended up uninstalling it. Your wife's system should kick butt - not freeze and then shut down. Something just don't seem right. Desktops will out perform laptops - no brainer there so I'm sure you got a better system for the price.
The reason I need a laptop is that my job requires me to travel - sometimes 10 months out of the year. I tried carrying around a desktop but that proved cumbersome. A laptop is much easier to travel with, especially when you are restrained to hotel rooms. I agree with the Asus laptops as well. For Christmas I bought my son a CyberPower laptop. It is a very nice 17.3" Fangbook system with 16 gigs, GTX 980M video card, i7-4710MQ Processor 2.50 GHz 6M Smart Cache, Max Turbo Freq. 3.50 GHz, 256 GB Solid state drive and a 1 TB Hybrid drive. It cost a little over $2000. Now I'm jealous. I'm looking at getting one for myself. He loves his and his frame rates are incredible. He's lucky he has a dad like me
Well, let's look to the future and consider playing Star Citizen with the rest of the guys that have pledged here. I look forward to it. I have 2 Constellation Andromeda's and one Aurora LX. I have 2 High Admiral accounts and am an original backer. Got my face to face Skype talk with Chris Roberts for almost an hour. He's a really nice person. My son talked with him too.