Budget Laptop for mild gaming (WoW/DoTA)

Immings

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I'm looking for a laptop around ~$500 CAD / US -- No Duty Tax please!!!

I mainly use it for WoW and DoTA for "gaming" some others, but any new gen game I play on a console so I don't need a 1k+ laptop. I'd still like to play these mild games at a high quality.

I've been looking at a couple of models at Best Buy; Thoughts?

1) Acer Aspire 15.6" amd 8 series
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/acer-aspire-15-6-laptop-amd-a8-series-6gb-memory-500gb-hard-drive-midnight-black/6573251.p?id=1219225068077&skuId=6573251

2) Hp Pavilion 17.3" Intel i7
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-pavilion-17-3-laptop-intel-core-i7-6gb-memory-750gb-hard-drive-natural-silver-ash-silver/9925475.p?id=1219450406236&skuId=9925475

Anything better for my price range?
 

Immings

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Jan 7, 2015
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Thanks for the quick reply @qullcirl but I couldn't find those models on the Canadian website, and doesn't ship to Canada (on US site or Newegg Ebay account)
 

Immings

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After searching reviews for this model, I'm thinking I should stay away from this model. Many many many people have had problems with it and to save a few bucks, I don't want to deal with this.
 

quilciri

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That's interesting, because everywhere I've seen the g505s, it's average 4+/5 stars (newegg, notebookcheck, amazon, etc), and lenovo itself has a fairly strong reliability record.