Woo… I apparently just missed out. I’ve got a dv9500 series and that’s been doing me pretty well for the 3+ years that I’ve had it for. Its been my main gaming PC and has handled the Orange Box, and a bunch of other older PC games, as well as PSX and N64 emulation, it also works excellently as a widescreen TV for playing my console games on. The only problem I’ve ever had with it was when one of the hinges shattered while it was still under warranty.
I suggest MSI laptops. I’ve had nothing but good experiences with them.
Sad thing is, I traded a really nice Dell XPS for this shitty HP. I thought the HP would be nicer since it had a nvidia geforce 8600m gs instead of a nvidia 6800 ultra. But now I relize that I should have stuck with the Dell
If you’re looking for a cheap gaming laptop, or ANY quality gaming laptop of good value for that matter, then the ONLY way to go is ASUS.
I paid $900 for:
Core 2 Duo 2.8ghz
6GB DDR2
GTX 260M
17.3" 1600x900 LCD
500GB 5400RPM HD
Cooling is wonderful, handles Crysis on Very High, 1600x900 no AA with decent framerate. Backlit keyboard… etc.
thx for the advice, ill check it out
I’ve never personally used laptops I don’t have need for those but I’ve heard a lot of good things about Sony Vaios.
Edit: If you were planning to go to mac so that you could pay out the ass you might as well get an AlienWare.
Maybe i’ll check out the laptop russilker posted 
i wish i could afford a new laptop 
hell id even take a desktop at this point
lesson here is, buy a crappy laptop for everything BUT gaming, and build your own desktop at home for gaming.
I’m gonna buy a Vaio, i tested one out today, they are freaking AWESOME!
That’s the appeal of Eee PCs. Pay $200 for a laptop, then go home to your $1000 epic gaming rig for pure awesomeness, and also do your work on it.
I would like to add my name to the list of people who’ve had less than pleasant experiences with HP.
Bought this laptop a couple weeks back, and to be fair I’ve not had any trouble with it.
Apart from the fact that due to this crazy touch volume control thing about the keyboard, the volume controls go mental of their own accord, my laptop very often mutes itself and doesn’t seem to like having the WLAN enabled.
Apparently I am far from the only person to have this problem and it looks like the only way to get it fixed is to send it back.
Dicks.
I’m getting a HP mini, and I don’t give a fuck.
Quoted for truth.
You can grab a quality Asus laptop on NewEgg for ~$1,000US, with a GTX200-series GPU, 4GB of RAM and a decent dual core Intel CPU. I’d look up specs for you but I’m going to bed 
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I’ve had a HP desktop for a while now 6 months -1 year and its been fine.
No they don’t, my family has had HP computers and printers since we got our first PC and none of them broke down or failed at all.
Open the computer up and get rid of the dust. I always do this with a small attachment for the vacuum cleaner and put the vacuum on the weakest mode. And you still need to be very careful, of course. And turn of the power etc. But hopefully you thought of that yourself.
I recently experienced videocard failure because of overheating. It became damn well near 110 degrees in game and around 80 degrees idle. Turns out it was because there was so much dust clogged up on the heatsinks of the videocard, it just nearly completely isolated the heat. As soon as I got rid of the dust it returned to idling at 50 degrees, and to 70 at full load and even then it doesn’t need to use full fan speed.
Well I’m happy with my acer 
I don’t play games like Crysis. I just play like some MMO’s and Valve games. I use my laptop more for editing programs (modelling/video) so I’m happy with it.
I heard that sony vaios/Asus/Alienware are very good for gaming. But full experience in games/ heavy programs = desktop.
Do you enjoy the 193 behind your name?
I do.
The only good experience I’ve had with hp in my entire life is with two of their printers I’ve owned. Every desktop that I’ve had by either them or Compaq (who is owned by hp) was a piece of shit that was incredibly slow and was of shitty quality.