Quote Originally Posted by InvalidPixel
If I would buy that laptop would I have the choice of what graphics card I can put in? I'm all ears.
Generally no. It's rather that you choose the laptop depending on the gfx-card you want. 1500$ should buy you a decent laptop that will run Shogun though.
I've just recently purchased an Acer Extensa for cheap 600€. It plays MTW and STW. It only has an Integrated gfx chip from Intel and no dedicated gfx-card like others have. If it says for example Nvidia or ATIXPress then it probably has a decent dedicated card. However, the newest games will never run well on laptops, simply because the gfx-cards are not that powerful as in desktops.
Components that you have influence on in Laptops: size of harddisk, size of RAM. The rest is dependent on the model you purchase and you can't switch components as easily as in desktops.