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If you plan on gaming, DON'T buy a laptop. This is solid advice. Gaming on laptops is a bad experience in general. Just buy a decent laptop with great battery

• zanny 13y ago
  Steambox came a callin'. Remember that stream tech Valve wants to use works both ways, so you could stream games from your mid range Steambox to your notebook.
• mercer 13y ago
  It is solid advice. Unless you don't need to play the latest games. I bought a MacBook Air a few months ago and found out that a lot of blockbuster games from a few years ago perform pretty well, as do a lot of the indie games (from Steam, for example). I even bought a wired xbox360 controller for some of these games (Mark of the Ninja, for one). But then I haven't really done much gaming in the past few years, so there are/were tons of (older) games I haven't played yet (BioShock, Portal 2, Mark of the Ninja, Borderlands 2 etc.). And I also don't mind turning down some of the graphic effects. Still, it's possible...