Gaming laptop for 700 or less

[alblue]

Im looking to get a laptop for gaming elsewhere then my house. But since I already have a decent computer at home, I dont want to spend much on the laptop. SO im looking at $700 or less.

Mainly play starcraft 2 and wow
It doesnt need to run GREAT graphics but it needs to run smoothly.

Taking any suggestions.

 

[Stryyder]

Close as your going to get

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115863

 

[Maziar]

+1^
That's one of the best laptops for under $700.

 

[Stryyder]

Theres an i5 version of it for like $50.00 more but for $100 more there is a toshiba 15.6" i5 and from a reliability factor I think a few extra bucks for the Toshiba is the way to go however I have almost clicked buy on that acer a couple of times.

Especially since that 17" has a second hard drive bay that just needs a connector and the reviews have been decent.

 

[ssshjp]

If you want better gaming performance, you can choose refurbished ASUS G series laptop with risk from a warranty as short as 90 days.

 

[alblue]

What about this laptop?

Would this be a good buy? It has a nice graphics card, although the processor doesnt follow
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220794&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Notebooks-_-ASUS-_-34220794

 

[Stryyder]

What about this laptop?

Would this be a good buy? It has a nice graphics card, although the processor doesnt follow
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220794&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Notebooks-_-ASUS-_-34220794

Thats an older Class I video card. It is going to do pretty well against anything the processor at 2 Gigahertz is an issue. It was one of the best cards you could get at one time.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-260M.14559.0.html

Beats a current 5650

I looked at that box a few weeks ago it was $749 at that new price its hard to pass up...

The downside is its only a 90 day warranty (although you can buy the squaretrade for another 89.99 for two year warranty thats $684.00 all in....

 

[alblue]

So you would go with the i5 toshiba one ?

 

[Stryyder]

I am probably buying one myself today. There are some other ASUS Core Duo's with faster processors on newegg but they get up around the price of a new Toshiba so I think I am just going to myself buy the new Toshiba and then at the end of the year extend the warranty

 

[alblue]

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