Gaming Looking for a gaming laptop...

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[COLOR="DarkRed"]Hey, I'm about to start college so I've been saving up to buy myself a laptop that I can easily carry around and use for both school and WoW. I'm partial to HP, but I'm not sure what brand is best for gaming and mobility...
Of course, I'm not sure a small, light, gaming laptop even exists :animeswea
Any advice would be much appreciated ^^
(btw, my budget is $3K tops)[/COLOR]

[Goodbye, Face]

[font=arial][size=1]You can get a good enough WoW experience on a $1000 laptop. That how much mine costs, I got a $30 RAM upgrade on Black Friday and I can play Half-Life 2 on mostly medium settings without much of a problem (it did lag a little in Ravenholm, but that's probably because of my wimpy processor).

So, for $3000, you shouldn't have ANY problems finding a viable gaming laptop. You can probably pick up a nice Alienware for that price, I hear that the stuff inside Alienwares are on springs so dropping it doesn't affect it too much, it's less of a worry to carry around.

Also, I think my laptop has a 15in. widescreen monitor and it fits snugly inside my messenger bag. I don't really know how small of a laptop you need.[/font][/size]

[AzureWolf]

I think PC world did a good wrapup of 2007 laptops. Check out these two links:

[url]http://www.pcworld.com/article/123678-1/article.html[/url]
[url]http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136649-page,1-c,notebooks/article.html[/url]

In a nutshell, most laptops should be able to play games decently well with the advent of core 2 duo and pernyn (sp?) processors. If your laptop has that (preferrably the latter, but either is fine), you will be able to run most games that predate these processors' arrival.

I am actually looking the opposite way and looking for a general-purpose laptop. I've had my eye on the EEE PC, but until I'm able to sell my macbook pro, I'm not going to buy another laptop. I have a $500 Dell desktop, and I just really need something simple for mobility. MBP is great, but I don't use all it's power. Funny thing is, I can't find anyone willing to pay a reasonable price just because I have Tiger installed and not Leopard. The OS is $129, so why do people expect me to cut the standard price for a used MBP by $500 or more?