Vampyr, you're not going to find a decent gaming laptop for a decent price at a retailer like Best Buy or Circuit City. I've looked and the best I could find cost $2k-$3 for a GeForce Go 7400.
The reason why the prices seem to be jacked up is hard drive size. Also, retailers must not see a high market in gaming, because even their best laptops have pretty mediocre graphics cards.
Just recently I bought a laptop (in fact, it's still being shipped) from
ibuypower.com. It's cheaper than Alien Ware and has higher grade graphics cards than retailers.
The first laptop I picked up was a Compaq with specs that looked better than my PC. Alas, I found that it could not play any game above Diablo II... simply because it was using an ATI Radeon Xpress 200m. It's not a bad card, but it's definately not intended for gaming. Most laptops of a decent price at Best Buy will have the x200m or equivelant.
When buying through ibuypower (or alien ware with some extra cash) you can get a GeForce Go 7600 (256 dedicated) on a laptop for about 1.2K. Now, that includes a good processor a gig of ram, and a reasonable 80-100GB of HD.
For more information on specific GeForce Go cards, go
here.
For More information on specific ATI Radeon Mobility cards, go
here.
If you're willing to put down the $2k-$3k, I still wouldn't suggest going with the bigger hard drive or choosing Alien Ware (unless you trust the brand or would appreciate the status accompanying owning such products). Rather, I would suggest looking into the GeForce Go SLI Dual 7900 GTX shown
here
. This card boasts 1GB video ram! There's also a Quad card with 2GB of ram, but I think that may be PC exclusive... and if it was for the laptop, I'm sure it'd have a ridiculous pricetag (Strangler got a PC version for something like $4500, with PCs running cheaper than laptops).
Here's an example of a laptop with the Dual Geforce 7900.
Edit: ****, didn't see you already bought it. Oh well. Maybe I'll consider erasing this and saving you from knowing you could've saved $800
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