Gaming laptop for approx. £1000

[Kaizang]

I would have thought 16gb of RAM excessive?

Plus even with the 500gb HDD (all i really need as im coping with 120gb ish now) thats nigh on £1200 and thats pushing the boundary a bit too much

[Lemur]

Well, when I spec it out with 8 gigs of RAM and a 500 gig hybrid drive, it clocks in at £1,047 with VAT and delivery. That's a much better video card for not a whole lot more money. Details:

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3610QM (2.30GHz) 6MB

Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 4GB)

Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 670M - 1.5GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11

Memory - Hard Disk
500GB SEAGATE MOMENTUS XT HYBRID, SATA 3 Gb/s, (7200rpm)

[Kaizang]

Is there much difference between quad and dual core?

[Lemur]

Is there much difference between quad and dual core?

For gaming? Not so much right now. Dual-core should get you through most of the games that are not wildly CPU-dependent.