Question regarding gaming laptops for college

So I'm headed off to college this fall, and I'm curious about getting a gaming laptop.

I want to get a fairly decent laptop, and I've been looking at several ASUS laptops all around the 1000-1100 dollar range. That's not necessarily the important bit of this post, but if anyone has any suggestions regarding a laptop around that price feel free to chime in ;)

So...my main question is whether or not there are any disadvantages to having a gaming laptop rather than a more "mainstream" laptop in college. I understand that gaming laptops generally run hotter, but if I, for example, used power saving mode when I was just doing work like writing a paper, would it be much hotter than any other laptop would be? I'm just afraid there are some unknown differences that I'm unaware of, so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

if you want to take it to college forget about gaming laptop go for an ultra portable