Buying first laptop ever!! ***Help please***

[Ark94]

Hey everybody, so I am looking for a laptop for my 16th. First laptop my parents are going to be buying me, and my first laptop ever.

Basically here is what I am looking for –
Price: 500-700 CAN
Speed: Preferably fast. Able to multi task, and have a game open and not slow down much
Graphics: Looking for some good graphics. Just enough to play Wow at max, and play Sims 2 maybe.
Memory: Not much of a concern, have a 500GB external harddrive but bigger would be better.
Outputs: Does not matter much, some HDMI, VGA or DVI would be nice but doesn’t matter.
Screen Size: Something that is good for watching movies on, and playing Wow.
Brand: Anything if you can help prove it is reliable. I hear a lot of good things about Toshiba.

So I am going to be using it for school mainly, and maybe Wow if I can. Just would like it to be the BEST bang for the buck. Nothing online, I am going to go to either futureshop or bestbuy and buy one. I live in Canada so if you can go on the sites and maybe search around and help. I will also post some maybe you can give some suggestions.
Futureshop.ca
Bestbuy.ca
Amazon.ca
Newegg.ca
Amazon.com (if they ship to Canada)
Newegg.com (if they ship to Canada)

Here are some I found. Let me know which is best bang for the buck. Need to know before Wednesday as my b-day is on Friday.
1. http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16834220694
2. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834220640
3. http://www.amazon.com/K40IJ-E1B-14-I.../ref=de_a_smtd
4. http://www.amazon.com/K50IJ-X8-15-6-...6246347&sr=1-2
5. http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/produ...8fd1207bd8en02
6. http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/...049baea437en02

 

[PeteRoy]

Stay away from HP, that's my advice.

The first one looks nicest from first impressions

 

[Ark94]

Hey thanks. I am really looking into the first one also, may even buy it. Seems like thats the best buy from anyplace i can find.

 

[Intexity]

stay away from HP definitely. my opinion i tell people to look at acer asus or toshiba since they seem to have the best "bang for your buck"
i tell people in america that they are looking to spend 600-800 usd for a good laptop.
go for dedicated not integrated video
i prefer nvidia graphics myself but not about to start a pissing match of who is better
same with intel vs amd i am intel.
have fun and hope this helps
oh and NEWEGG all the way. i don't even bother anywhere else for new electronics