Thinking about a gaming laptop, HP dv6t?

So I just graduated yesterday, and there was much rejoicing. So in a little over 2 months I'm on my way to college, which means I can finally take advantage of some student discounts! YAY! So for these past two years I've been using a Toshiba Satellite L645D. It can run Left 4 Dead on low, for gaming, its weaker than I hoped it would be. I got it for about $420 in September of 2010, and it has treated me very well, I've absolutely loved everything about it except the battery, which is lasting about an hour now just web browsing and the like :P. So the specs for my current baby are 4GB of RAM,AMD Turion? II Dual-Core Mobile Processor P520, and anATI Mobility Radeon? HD 4250 graphics card. So considering how two years have passed, I'm looking for a substantial upgrade and I want to take advantage of some student discounts.

So after receiving some $$ from my family for graduating and some scholarships, I want to blow some money on a computer. My antivirus just expired, I'm getting notifications for my laptop battery and what not, so I figure now would be a good time to upgrade, although I could wait until August if there are some major benefits to doing so.

But today I ran across this:

http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-Pavilion/A3F49AV?HP-Pavilion-dv6t-7000-Quad-Edition-Entertainment-Notebook-PC

A coupon and a discount let me pick up this monster for $877!

i7 core CPU

NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GT 630M Graphics with 1GB GDDR3 memory [HDMI, VGA] (I believe this is the cheapest card, its customizable)

8GB DDR3 RAM

15.6-inch diagonal HD BrightView LED-backlit Display (1366x768)

750GB HDD

6 hour battery life

WOW!

So now I'm wondering, I understand computer specifications to a limited degree, what I don't understand is if something is going to get bottlenecked or if something else is genuinely wrong with this laptop. I found this laptop off of a review, and he mentioned that it was worth the extra $150 to upgrade to a 1080p screen, which is quite frankly too much over my budget (My budget was 800, 1000 is too much). So what do you guys think? Should I buy this one as soon as I can, should I wait until the end of the summer for any reason, or should I keep looking? If so, is there anything I should really be looking out for, like a 1080p screen or a certain type of card?

Monster? I see no monster :\MonsieurX

Not impressed? Anything to recommend, because I don't want to go over $900, I'm already over budget.

Well I don't have anything to recommend really but somebody else will. All I want to say is don't pay for Antivirus. Use Avira just as good.

http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np6165-clevo-w150er-p-4344.html This is from the website I got my laptop from. If you upgrade the CPU to an i7 you get everything you get with the HP for around $930, plus you get a 1080p screen as opposed to 768p and you also get the GT650M instead of 630M so that's about 2x as powerful.

http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np6165-clevo-w150er-p-4344.html This is from the website I got my laptop from. If you upgrade the CPU to an i7 you get everything you get with the HP for around $930, plus you get a 1080p screen as opposed to 768p and you also get the GT650M instead of 630M so that's about 2x as powerful.

JC_Spot

Stupid question, what do I loose out on going with the i5 vs. the i7?

Gaming on a laptop. Not even once.

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GummiRaccoon

Lord why do I keep geting this kind of lip. I'm going to college next year, my laptop is slowly dying. I'd like something that I can game on, but I need a laptop anyway. So rather spend $500 on a laptop and $500 on a desktop, I'm shooting for $900 that could do the best of both. I don't see the irrational?

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

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RandomWinner

Lord why do I keep geting this kind of lip. I'm going to college next year, my laptop is slowly dying. I'd like something that I can game on, but I need a laptop anyway. So rather spend $500 on a laptop and $500 on a desktop, I'm shooting for $900 that could do the best of both. I don't see the irrational?

If you must pick up an A10-4600m

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

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RandomWinner

Lord why do I keep geting this kind of lip. I'm going to college next year, my laptop is slowly dying. I'd like something that I can game on, but I need a laptop anyway. So rather spend $500 on a laptop and $500 on a desktop, I'm shooting for $900 that could do the best of both. I don't see the irrational?

[QUOTE="MonsieurX"]Monster? I see no monster :\RandomWinner

Not impressed? Anything to recommend, because I don't want to go over $900, I'm already over budget.

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GummiRaccoon

I wouldn't, not with that GPU.

It's a rebadged GT 540m iirc.

I wouldn't, not with that GPU.

It's a rebadged GT 540m iirc.

Postmortem123

[QUOTE="JC_Spot"]

http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np6165-clevo-w150er-p-4344.html This is from the website I got my laptop from. If you upgrade the CPU to an i7 you get everything you get with the HP for around $930, plus you get a 1080p screen as opposed to 768p and you also get the GT650M instead of 630M so that's about 2x as powerful.

RandomWinner

Stupid question, what do I loose out on going with the i5 vs. the i7?

[QUOTE="Postmortem123"]

I wouldn't, not with that GPU.

It's a rebadged GT 540m iirc.

kraychik

[QUOTE="RandomWinner"]

[QUOTE="JC_Spot"]

http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np6165-clevo-w150er-p-4344.html This is from the website I got my laptop from. If you upgrade the CPU to an i7 you get everything you get with the HP for around $930, plus you get a 1080p screen as opposed to 768p and you also get the GT650M instead of 630M so that's about 2x as powerful.

JC_Spot

Stupid question, what do I loose out on going with the i5 vs. the i7?

Thank you very much. I'm going to save the Sagar link for a little while until I get my hands on a little more money I think, but that one looks phenominal!