I'm getting a laptop, and I'm too stupid to tell if the one I like is any good

[Subotan]

Why is that, it runs windows much better and you have a much better looking/feeling (yes feeling I love that keyboard and touchpad) machine to run it on. The latest line are also equipped with a solid graphical card have yet to see a hick-up. Awesome gaming machine means poor working machine, if you also want to use it for university I would get a good desktop and get a cheap wordpad for your notes.

Because:

But then, he needs to pay far more money in excess just for a machine branded "Mac".

And also, I don't play the latest, graphically intense games., so It'll probably do fine.

You need faster processor speeds. I believe Sims 3 for example needed 2.4 Dual Core as minimum, for example. The speeds in the laptops listed look quite far below that.

And I would be playing Sims 3...why?

Apple is a truly annoying company with all that guru-bull and their adds make me want to kill something, but imho they are worth their price as it are just excellent laptops. You pay a little bit more but when you translate that into the time you save using it it's a perfectly fine choice.

Maybe, but I just don't like them. I have an iPod to be fair, as they are the best MP3 players on the market, but the actual Macs? No way.

[Beskar]

And I would be playing Sims 3...why?

That wasn't the point... it was an example I remembered from the top of my head, due to my friend having the game and owning a laptop and said about the trouble he had.

Replace "Sims 3" with "Generic New Game".

[Subotan]

Like I said, I don't really play brand spanking new games, so it wouldn't be that much of a problem.

[Furunculus]

this is what you want:

Have a look at the 15" Acer in this link:
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=21878

New CPU
Decent GPU
Pretty cheap

[Fragony]

What good is it if it has only 4 hours of battery, two colleges and it's empty. They are poor gaming machines anyway, gaming wears your keyboard down, sweaty palms button mashing, but on a laptop the keyboard isn't as easily replaced. Get a fat custom desktop if you want to game, gaming-laptop is a little bit of everything but in the end nothing at all, not that powerful for games, and not of that much use for work.

[Subotan]

this is what you want:

Have a look at the 15" Acer in this link:
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=21878

New CPU
Decent GPU
Pretty cheap

Looks interesting. What does everyone else think?

What good is it if it has only 4 hours of battery, two colleges and it's empty. They are poor gaming machines anyway, gaming wears your keyboard down, sweaty palms button mashing, but on a laptop the keyboard isn't as easily replaced. Get a fat custom desktop if you want to game, gaming-laptop is a little bit of everything but in the end nothing at all, not that powerful for games, and not of that much use for work.

Hence my "trying to square a circle" comment. I'm going to university, so I'll need a laptop anyway, and I'd like one that could play EB II/Paradox Games/TF2. Getting a desktop isn't an option.

[Furunculus]

What good is it if it has only 4 hours of battery, two colleges and it's empty. They are poor gaming machines anyway, gaming wears your keyboard down, sweaty palms button mashing, but on a laptop the keyboard isn't as easily replaced. Get a fat custom desktop if you want to game, gaming-laptop is a little bit of everything but in the end nothing at all, not that powerful for games, and not of that much use for work.

i agree, but if you must have one machine, and it must be portable then this acer is a pretty good compromise at a very cheap price.

[Husar]

Either buy the one Lemur chose, or the one Furunculus suggested.

A Macbook doesn't eat Crysis for breakfast at all, there are few if any desktops capable of that.
Of course Fragony's definition of "eats for breakfast" might be "runs fine on low/medium".