Looking to purchase gaming laptop.

[simonizor]

I'm looking to spend about $1500 on a good gaming laptop. So far, the best I've found for the money is the ASUS G Series G73JW-XN1. It goes for about $1450. The specs are: Intel Core i7 740QM(1.73GHz) 17.3" 8GB Memory 500GB HDD 7200rpm DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M. The most demanding games that I play are either CoD : BO or NFS: Shift, but I'd like to be able to run games for the next couple of years, so I want to get the most power I can for my money while still getting a solid product.

Does anyone have any experience with this laptop? Or could anyone recommend a better one with similar specs in my price range?

 

[ZipSpeed]

If you're going to be dumping that much money into a laptop, definitely hold out for the manufacturers to start using the Sandy Bridge CPUs. Hope they will couple with a high end chip GPU from the Mobility Radeon 6000 series or the GeForce 485M.

 

[simonizor]

It looks like CLEVO is already putting sandy bridge chips in their laptops. The 485M is out of my price range. I'm looking at the Sager NP8150 which is built on the Clevo P150HM. If I purchase it with the 460M, I can upgrade to the 485M later, right? After I configure it the way I want on xoticpc, it comes out to about $1500.