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Fastest Laptops

Averages verified benchmark scores per laptop to find the best performing laptop for each game or synthetic benchmark utility. Note - for users with benchmark logs, if more then 1 benchmark is submitted under different settings, the best score of all settings is used for averaging.
1:
Dell XPS M1730
Average: 14,032.71
2:
Alienware Area-51 m17x
Average: 12,643
3:
Alienware m17
Average: 12,385.33
4:
Clevo D901c
Average: 11,694
5:
Sager NP9262
Average: 11,570.50
1:
Dell XPS M1730
Average: 21,042
2:
Alienware Area-51 m17x
Average: 18,190
3:
Sager NP9262
Average: 16,221
4:
Sager NP5793
Average: 15,799
5:
Sager NP9260
Average: 15,636
1:
Dell XPS M1730
Average: 58,817
2:
Alienware m17
Average: 50,552
3:
Alienware Area-51 m17x
Average: 48,684
4:
Sager NP9262
Average: 45,564
5:
Sager NP9260
Average: 35,257
1:
Sager NP9260
Average: 41,168
2:
Dell XPS M1730
Average: 40,363
3:
Sager NP5793
Average: 37,372
4:
Alienware Area-51 m17x
Average: 36,455
5:
Gateway P-171XL FX
Average: 33,567
1:
Sager NP5793
Average: 258.17
2:
Alienware Area-51 m15x
Average: 238.58
3:
Dell XPS M1730
Average: 225.94
4:
Sager NP9262
Average: 224.48
5:
Alienware m17
Average: 217.93

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Alienware Area-51 m17x Review
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Doom 3
Alienware m17
105.10 fps
by Steve@NBF
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Company Of Heroes
Alienware Area-51 m17x
15.10 fps
by Steve@NBF
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3DMark03
Dell Inspiron E1705
20,405 3dmarks
by Skillz
4:
PassMark PerformanceTest 6.1
Dell Inspiron 1501
333.80 
by Ceetoph
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3DMark06
Dell Precision M6400
11,231 3DMarks
by philby
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3DMark06
Alienware Area-51 m9750
5,166 3DMarks
by ihatedesktops
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