The 'latest and greatest' gaming laptops are an absolute joke. Feel the amount of heat coming out of the back of your computer... and then imagine all that heat coming out of a 12lb (ya.. a fvcking 12 heavy-ass pounds) box and burning your penis.
The latest Alienware laptop ad made me spit my soda all over my keyboard.. It's a 3.2ghz DESKTOP processor.. Those put out like 100W+ of heat!! So.. how much battery life are you gonna get with that?
Seriously.. don't buy a 'gaming' laptop. Anything heavier than 6.5lbs and thicker than 1.5" should not even be considered a laptop. Also, usually anything bigger than those dimensions has sh!tty build quality, loud fans, is heavy as hell..
You can buy a decently-fast laptop, with good battery life (using Centrino or AMD), that is thin (like 1.3" thick), light (5 lbs), and still has a half-way decent graphics card..
But, these big fat bricks that try to pass for a laptop today are jokes. How the fvck are you gonna 'game' on a laptop when you only get 1hour of battery life?
Big laptops are my peeve.. Five years ago, I swear.. the average size of a new laptop was smaller than the average size of today's laptops..