Laptop upgrade

[Vinculum]

With Tax refunds rolling slowly but surely I shall be upgrading from my Gateway NV59C i3 Intel graphics to something that performs hopefully much better. I will have about $1500 to spend on this and so come asking the all knowing community for guidance. It must be a laptop for portability reasons and I would prefer something from a physical store such as Fry's or BB though if the product is worth it I wont deny anything. While I don't have high hopes for playing on ultra settings all day I would enjoy being able to jump to it for a picture or two. Thank you all in advance for any positive input.

[Peewee Musytari]

I know very little about laptops, but while you are waiting for some of those that are great on the topic to reply, checkout some of the posts on these other similar threads (check comments too) New Laptop

[Vinculum]

Though you couldn't answer I appreciate your help, thank you.

[Vivian Cifuentes]

You would have no problem running this on ultra Asus @ Tiger Direct

Make sure you get a laptop cooler if you are going to run a high end laptop for any period of time.

[PeterCanessa Oh]

Almost any PC/Mac/Laptop will have the CPU-power and screen to run SL these days, tablets, netbooks, smart-phones and the like won't.  The most important thing for SL is the graphics card and its memory.  You should get a card with at least 1GB memory (of its own, not shared with the processors) and as new/powerful as you can afford.  Depending on what else you are using the laptop for hard-disk space and battery-life are less important.  You should note, however, that a powerful graphics card is going to drain normal laptop batteries very quickly.

[Ishtara Rothschild]

Any newer video card with NVidia GeForce chipset should work fine with SL. In addition, your notebook should have at least 4 GB RAM.

[Vinculum]

Darn you and your find of great computer right at budget online. Spent hours hovering over that buy button when I don't even have the money just yet. Thank you very much for your answer, I may go in that direction.

[Vinculum]

Thank you very much for the answer. This was around what I was thinking but I wanted to be sure with such a large purchase.

[Vinculum]

Thank you kindly for the answer. I had heard Nvidia worked better with SL but being as the list of approved cards from LL was so old I wanted to be sure.

[Vivian Cifuentes]

I know the feeling, I was trying to justify purchasing it but my laptop is still pretty new. If that doesn't work out for you there really are many good choices at you budget point. Maybe even spend a bit less on the laptop and get a large monitor and wireless keyboard to hook to it and use when at your normal location. Happy Hunting