Help- Laptop critique.

[Centurion1]

Ok guys so after tons of issues and poor management by myself my old laptop is falling apart and I am going to try to get a new one before school starts up again. I want to game a bit but nothing heavy, no FPS mostly strategy games like CrusaderKings, EU3. stuff like that. Tops a little mount and blade or some DOW. I dont have issues with lowering graphics (I still play old MS-DOS games) so take that into account. Just looking at power mostly and the rigs ability to cool itself. Also graphics card since Had a ton of trouble with my old rig graphically.

I used to have a Inspiron17r

My first option so far is this one. I was wondering what everyone thought of it?

enovo IdeaPad Y570 (08623TU) Notebook Intel Core i7 2670QM(2.20GHz) 15.6" 6GB Memory DDR3 1333 500GB HDD 5400rpm DVD±R/RW NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

Also if you know of any decent gaming rigs for cheaper than this please let me know because this is a little pricey for me right now.

[Lemur]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the AMD Fusion laptops (https://www.google.com/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=fusion+laptop#hl=en&sugexp=cqn%2Ccconf%3D1.0%2Cmin_length%3D2%2Crate_low%3D0.025%2Crate_high%3D0.025%2Csecond_pass%3Dfal se%2Cnum_suggestions%3D2&gs_nf=1&cp=0&se=17&gs_mss=fusion%20laptop&tok=rN3YceSG4H1KTHrBNTY7QA&pq=amd%20fusion%20laptop&gs_id=3&xhr=t&q=amd+fusion+laptop&pf=p&safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&oq=amd+fusion+laptop&aq=0&aqi=g2g-c1g1&aql=f&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=68e0be9a27365c01&biw=1920&bih=955) are a steal, and they can game. And they are (relatively) cheap.

Read up (http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/06/14/amds_llano_fusion_series_apus/5).

[Centurion1]

Toshiba Satellite P755D-S5378 - A8-3500M 2.4 GHz - 640 GB HDD / 5400 rpm - 15.6 in 1366 x 768 - 6 GB RAM - Fusion X2 f

What do you think of that one Lemur. Are there any blinding flaws with it I am not noticing? The Processor and ram looks good to me, i do not know too much about graphics cards though so if you could shedf some light on that. It aparently is 600 bucks which would be a dream.

[Lemur]

Glancing at some user reviews (http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Satellite-P755D-S5378-15-6-Inch-Laptop/product-reviews/B005KP0XIO/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_btm?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending), nope, it looks like a solid piece of laptop. The main criticism seems to be battery life, but I don't honestly know what people expect sometimes. If you put this Toshiba into "eco" mode it will go 4 hours between charges. What do users expect?

-edit-

The AMD A8-3500M looks quite lovely (http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/pc-components/processors/amd-a8-3500m-965258/review). Good find!


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