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A lasting gaming laptop rig?
It seems the 11" Acer I have (in front of me) is falling apart and I sort of wanted a new one anyway (for gaming and probably taking class notes @ school)
- Budget: ~1000 American Dollars
- Resolution: Up to HD (if it doesn't make the system get very hot)
- Games / Settings Desired: DOS era on - probably high enough settings (may connect to HDTV) - though not enough to make it get extremely hot (~70 C?)
- When I will buy?: Hopefully by start of college again
- Hardware
- USB 2/3 ports (though what laptop doesn't come with USB ports now?)
- HDD: Half a terabyte (I'd think)
- Has a HDMI port
- Card reader (convenience)
- Dual or quad core
- VERY STURDY
- As long a battery life as possible
- Support for wireless N
- Software
- Windows 7 Home Premium (I doubt I need professional or ultimate)
- Microsoft Office
- Game software
- Elder Scrolls (Morrowind -> Skyrim)
- Portal 1 & 2
- Batman: Arkham series
- Quake, DOOM & Wolfenstein (all)
- Commander Keen (all)
- Bioshock 1 & 2
- L.A Noire (if possible)
- Bejeweled & Peggle (all)
- anything else that interests me off steam
- Other thoughts
- Don't care weather AMD or Intel (CPU) or AMD or Nvidia (GPU)
- - If Intel don't care if Sandy or Ivy bridge,
- - Don't really care weather i3 or i5
- Unlikely but if possible UEFI (can laptops even show BIOS?)
- Screen size: 15+ (though probably not more than 20 inches)
- Decent sized keyboard (lest keyboard key feel)