17.1" gaming laptops are the most common and popular gamer laptops on the computer market today. The actual viewable screen size is usually right at 17 inches. I suggest minimum technical specifications on 17.1 inch gaming laptop computers of 2.0 GHz dual-core processor, 2 GB DDR2 system RAM, 160 GB hard drive storage capacity, and 256 MB dedicated graphics memory. Increase the system RAM to 3 GB or 4 GB, hard drive storage capacity to 250 GB or 320 GB, and the dedicated graphics memory to 512 MB for a higher level of performance in your 17.1" gaming laptop computer.
17.1 inch gaming laptops are priced from $850 to over $6000 with most going for $1000 to $4000. The difference between lower priced 17.1" gaming laptops and the highest-end 17.1 inch gaming laptop computers is not neccessarily the amount of hard drive storage capacity or system RAM included, but more the CPU(processor) speed, the amount of dedicated graphics memory, and the extra