<p>Hi, I'm looking to buy a new laptop for college for both gaming and to type up papers and stuff. I'll probably be looking to play games such as Call of Duty 3 and such so I want a pretty high end laptop.</p>
<p>I'm willing to spend around a flexible $1000. Suggestions?</p>
<p>Also, how much time do you college gamers out there actually play?</p>
<p>Gaming and laptop don't go together, especially not for $1000.If you want high end look at $2000+.You'll only get like 30 minutes of battery life and it'll weigh like 7 pounds.</p>
<p>COD3,LOL. COD4, man.</p>
<p>$2000+...?</p>
<p>Well maybe I used the wrong term? I know that there must be laptops out there that can play COD4 at high settings which is all I'm really looking for.</p>
<p>And I'm going to be gaming with the AC adapter, so yeah...</p>
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I know that there must be laptops out there that can play COD4 at high settings which is all I'm really looking for.
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And they will cost you $2k+...</p>
<p>really? damn...</p>
<p>well how about medium settings? (._.)</p>
<p>build your own. Asus Whitebook, think it was called..? there're some other ones, too.</p>
<p>Try the DELL XPS M1730 (has a 17" screen).</p>
<p>Try to get one with an ATI GPU in it, if you can help it... the 8600 cards (and other nVidia cards) are having problems lately, especially in laptops. You can probably get a 15.4" alienware laptop for about $1,500, they offer discounts to college students although I don't know how big the discounts are... Dell XPS or Alienware would be my suggestion.</p>
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Try to get one with an ATI GPU in it, if you can help it... the 8600 cards (and other nVidia cards) are having problems lately, especially in laptops. You can probably get a 15.4" alienware laptop for about $1,500, they offer discounts to college students although I don't know how big the discounts are... Dell XPS or Alienware would be my suggestion.
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<p>that problem supposedly only affects 8-series cards below the 8800...though i don't know if there's a mobile version of that.</p>
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<p>No, that's me linking to something helpful. If you just post a URL as plain-text, the forum changes it to a hyperlink and uses the site's title page as the hyperlink text, which looks ridiculous thanks to the OP from slickdeals. If you're willing/able to go through all that crap to get discounts, you get a fairly powerful computer for less than $900.</p>
<p>the dell studios almost weigh 8 pounds and both the processor and video card arent for gaming. you want an 8700gt if you want high end.</p>
<p>Just get a midrange computer for your budget and settle for medium or even low settings.</p>
<p>Or you can get a desktop and a laptop. The laptop can be something really cheap, like an Eee PC, while the desktop would be capable of playing COD4 on high settings. You could probably build a desktop that can do that for under $1k, using parts from Newegg.</p>
<p>There's a new round of price cuts from Intel for Monday. The online stores already have the new prices. If you're really into gaming, it might be cheaper to go desktop + laptop.</p>
<p>the alienware laptops actually do offer an 8800 GPU, although i'm pretty sure that'd bump the price tag up a bit... A very good card though.</p>
<p>yea, in their 2.2k 17inch model. It cost an extra 1k, too. You don't want to spend 3.2k on a laptop do you? Plus, i can only imagine the heat that will be given off by the laptop.</p>
<p>How about the Dell Studio 17? I bet you could configure a pretty cool laptop for around ~ $1200.</p>
<p>actually the alienware's aren't that bad, I checked the website and you can get a 15" notebook (easier to carry than a 17") with an 8800 GPU for $1750... that's 2k with a 12% educational discount, i'm actually not quite sure how big the discount is, I just assumed it's the same as Dell's, since Alienware is a Dell asset... maybe it's pointless of me to point that out, since it's still a fair bit more than 1k like the OP wanted, but still not a bad deal.
(I got a Mac notebook myself, i won't game enough to want something 1.5" thick like the alienwares...)</p>
<p>link to the 15 inch with the 8800? that crap is going to explode. it will hit 90 degrees Celsius 5 seconds after boot up.</p>
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