If you don't consider lossiness here it will of course not matter how well the capture tool performed. In the case of Fraps, the quality of the final movie is greatly affected by what compression you use when converting the FPS1-encoded capture AVI to a distributable format. Fraps allows you to set half-size frames. Using a smaller frame size during the capture gives the hard drive an easier time and could keep your framerate up.
Laptops often come with slower-access hard drives so this may affect performance a lot. More specifically, the capturing tool makes substantial and continual disk writes so choosing to store the file on a fast hard drive is key. The key issue here is that capturing requires some performance, and you should always try to to it on the best computer available. I had no problem running Fraps behind my game at full speed (50fps in my case) getting high quality captures. Like many video capturing tools, Fraps uses a low-cost compression during while it's recording which then can be converted to a higher compression format of your choice. You can set the framerate beforehand, as David Young suggested in his comment. My best experience is with Fraps but I used the full version (it seemed like a small one-time prize to pay for a great utility) which has no limits or logo.
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