Need advise... help please!

Hi, emm... I'm planing to buy a laptop in this holyday, because the desktop in the house is always occupied by someone else (brother or dad), and also cause I'm studying right now Computer Systems Engineering...

The thing is that I want a Laptop that can run heavy videogames (CoD4, WoW, Medieval II, The Witcher) on maybe low to mid settings but because of my current budget I can only afford a Lap as much as 650 dlls...

Can anyone recomend me a laptop?

Also, I did a little research and I found that the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD supposedly plays bluray, it's compatible with Direct X 10 and claims that it can run "Great 3D graphics performance, delivering over 3X scores on 3D Mark 06"... but also found that many people say that you need an nVidia or ATi graphics chipset to run great games on a laptop. I found a laptop with an Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 2.2 GHz and 6GB DDR3 memory in 600dlls, but It only has the mentioned before Intel GMA4500MHD... Whta games could I play on that thing? In what settings (low, mid, high)?

What do you think I should do?

(No jokes and you should get more money commentaries please)

never, ever buy any computer with a intel graphics card for gaming.ferret-gamer

Sounds like intergrated graphics card so probably not very well.

Ideally you want a laptop with dedicated graphics like 9600GT (if you're going for a cheaper laptop), that would handle the games you mentioned fairly well on pretty good settings.

Other option I have is buying a latop with an "ATI Radeon 4100 graphics with dynamically allocated shared graphics memory"...

I really don't know why it has dynamic graphics memory... and also... it has a AMD Turion II M500 2.2GHz 1MB L2 cache instead of the Core 2 Duo mentioned before...

What do you think?

i would never get a laptop for gaming...it'll cost way more its not really worth it =/ thats what i think and i have no idea whats good for a gaming laptop sorry

Other option I have is buying a latop with an "ATI Radeon 4100 graphics with dynamically allocated shared graphics memory"...

I really don't know why it has dynamic graphics memory... and also... it has a AMD Turion II M500 2.2GHz 1MB L2 cache instead of the Core 2 Duo mentioned before...

What do you think?

nandito3555

You want a graphics card with dedicated memory, 512mb is what you should be after, 256mb being the absolute minimum.

OK... thanks

The thing is that, yeah I know buying a desktop for gaming is much cheaper and I could simply buy a netbook for my projects... but my budget is restricted to 650 dlls! If I do that I would need at least 750 dlls (550 for the PC, and 200 for my netbook)...

I'm just asking becuase, I;m buying a laptop that's for sure, but I would like a gaming capable laptop. I now I could never play games like Crysis and Bioshock, but I'm pointing at some older games in the low-mid settings range. Maybe later I could buy a new desktop, but I'm talking about this holyday.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220636

Who said I couldn't find a great laptop for 600 dlls :)

But I would like to find a great laptop in a store... not online, I don't have a credit card yet, and my dad is a little bit nitpicky about the amount and kind off stuff he buys with his credit card...

Also, I live in Mexico (near USA) and I had several shipping issues in the past with online sales...