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Is this a good gaming laptop? What about hardware Virtualization?

I know you can get this laptop with the ATI 4670 card over the stock 3670 card. Does that make a sizable difference? From some other forums, it sounds like it does. Also, does this work well as a gaming laptop? I'm not expecting amazing Crysis performance but I mostly play BF2 and Supreme Commander and TF2 and would like to know that it can handle those games without an issue. I can't seem to find any good performance reviews.

Also, can anyone confirm that this DOES support hardware virtualization? I have heard some of the XPS laptops are shipping with it disabled.

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bigjim

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I'm running the latest VMWare Workstation on mine with virtuals for Oracle Linux, Windows Server 2008, and an XP virtual so I can still use the company VPN. All work great, super fast. The Oracle Linux virtual is running almost all the time and I've had no issues.
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lorenv

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The gaming performance is damn fine on the 4670. I even got Crysis playing at a decent playable frame rate. This laptop is seriously well built and worth it over cheap plastic ones that have slightly better vid cards.
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Rene

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TF2 is creamy smooth at mostly maxed settings, Bioshock is smooth at max, Crysis is smooth at medium, d2 gets about 250fps ^.^

I'm using an i5-430, hd4670, 4 gigs ram
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