So my dad is getting me a new laptop in the States with a budget of 600-800 dollars (I think) with maybe a 15" screen size at the most and I want one that's good for school and not that high-end gaming (No Dead Space or any of those extremely detailed games, something for at least DoTa or SF at medium to high graphics)

I have considered both Sony Vaio and Dell XPS but my dad has considered HP laptops but they have Intel HD GPU only do that's bad

Any suggestions? (I'm not taking any Mac suggestions)

Alienware m11x, you can get one off of newegg for about 834.99

Greatest laptop ever created, seriously.

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^Really awesome laptop, mainly for gaming. Also, The Dell Inspiron 15R is a really nice laptop for all-around uses. Starts at around $570.

My dad's not getting me any alienware laptops... plus I don't think the Inspiron's good for all around gaming

P.S. my dad's buying at any retailer, probably best buy

best buy or walmart will have the options you seek. look for a laptop in the $650 - $700 price range with ati graphics or nvidia graphics though and you will be fine for what you want to accomplish. i would suggest this

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Acer-AS4820T-5570/14689983

Oh, I forgot about that one, I also considered that... but it has to be i5 processor

You can see laptop brand new in any shop. Before you go to display center you can go first searching in the internet for best specs of laptop you need to buy. You can take time before deciding what would be the best.

Asus G73JH-RBBX05

Monster power, you can buy it at best buy for about 1k.

If that's too expensive, get the G72GX-RBBX05, at bestbuy xD

The G72 runs Crysis at about 30-35 FPS on Very High, i'm not sure about the G73, it must be a little higher.


EDIT: oshit, just realized you didn't want anything for gaming

Hp laptops are pretty awesome

Hey btw the M11X is now 799.00$ on the official alienware site.
Cool stuff right here, it's going down for the holidays i guess.