Laptop and Processor purchase help

I need laptop. I want a laptop that can play great games like WoW and Empire total war, and NBA 2k11. the problem is i don't want to spend a lot of money.

this is the laptop i am thinking about:
HP Pavilion DV7-4065dx Refurbished Notebook PC - AMD Phenom II Triple-Core N830 2.1GHz, 4 DDR3, 500 HDD, Blu-ray, 17.3" Display, Windows 7 Home Premium

is this laptop any good for my purposes? Can someone recommend another laptop or two?

That's a good choice. I would go for any laptop with more than 4gb of Ram. The HP pavillion series is a great choice as well.

While what your looking at is an excellent laptop, its not for what you want to do. For playing games, something with a dedicated graphics card is always ideal. In a laptop this means lower battery life, usually higher price and a bigger size. While you can play WoW on newer integrated graphics chip set's, you'll be doing so at less than optimal resolutions and graphics setting, in many cases making WoW's beautiful cartoony graphics look like mush with similar results in other more current titles. Both of the links I'm posting contain options for you as they are base configured. You could add things to them or look at a larger model but mind you these are more expensive than the one you had linked.

iBUYPOWER Computer :: Battalion 101 B5130M Gaming Laptop

Xplorer X6-8500 Notebook

Edited by scootertime, 06 January 2011 - 06:06 PM.

Hey scooter those laptop look Sweet man. but the only problem is iam working on a budget so i cant really get those beauties. thanks for the links tho. i'll definitely check out those websites too.

Much love for the reply J-dilla:smoke:

I dont know how you feel as far as brand loyalty is concerned, this seems like a good midpoint, still having a dedicated graphics card, I just know some people are funny about dell stuff.

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