For a decent gaming notebook you would have to spend at least twice as much. And it still would be o.k. at best.
But why? Build your self a decent desktop with the money you would spend for portabality.
Plus you can always upgrade where the laptop turns to a paper wieght after a year.
Paul
Er, I believe “gaming notebook” and “price range of $1,000 or less” qualify as mutually exclusive terms, unless by “gaming” you mean things like solitare, pinball, or something graphical written to run about 5 years or more ago. Nice to have dreams though. 
Yeah, Warcraft II rocks on a notebook. 
I was looking at this but it seems its a little over $1000 though. Is it worth the extra $200?
And BTW, the games I play are like Command & Conquer, and Battlefield 2142. As long as it can handle those games I’m fine. 
That looks like a pretty decent deal, and it should be fine for games released in 2006 or earlier (assuming you will have it plugged in to a wall). If you are new to laptops, don’t expect to have enough battery to play 3D games on the go.
actually not that bad at all. it has decent cpu and graphics and both the dedicated graphics controller card and dedicated graphics ram will help a lot. battery is on the small side as is the 15.4" display but if you have a 19 or 22" external LCD it seems like it could be a decent enough budget gaming system. Nice find.
Couldn’t the battery be upgraded?
It’s not that you can’t play 3D games on a laptop without a plug in, you just can’t play as long as you would be able to run, oh I don’t know, something like solitaire. Basically, the more processing power you use, the faster the battery will drain.
I don’t know if A-Bot just had bad luck, or if I had good luck, but with my laptop, I was able to play Unreal Tournament for a few hours before I would need to plug in.
You play? What is your ingame name?
Send me a buddy request 
My in game is “TOinaeraser”
EDIT: My parents have a similar computer, exept it was $1600. Same style and company though, just higher end,
I don’t think it will run games very well UNLESS you get it running winXP. Also, if you are using Vista, put an extra gig of ram in.
I would spend it on a good desktop. My computer cost $1200 and it will easily run 2142 on high settings.
Yeah sure!
It already comes with a max of 4GB of RAM.
If your talking about desktops, My HP Desktop run it at 1600x1200 on high. 
So what does anyone else suggest I do?
I agree, currently, the laptops aren’t really ready for gaming unless you shell out some big $$$. I would take that money you were going to spend and buy a desktop rig with better hardware as compared to the laptop you can get…
I also play BF2142, my screen name on there is NuclearBullet. BTW, I am sick of the map Tampa! Geez, ever since it came out, many servers near me have it on 24/7… Many of the old maps were just as fun… sigh Another gripe is, there is not enough Titan servers!!! Titan mode is what set BF2142 from the rest of the run-of-the-mill FPSs out there… 8)
I’ll have to think about that. I currently have a very nice desktop that does everything I want it to do, So I really see no point in buying a new one.
Cool, I’ll add you once the EA server stops acting up.
It’s true about the Highway Tampa thing.
I’m part of KoF clan, Knights of Freedom servers, join me sometime. PS we have a titan server too…
It seams lately even desktops are having trouble playing games with high settings. I know someone who has this incredible desktop (quad with 3.0 Ghz, 4 gigs of RAM, 8800 GeFroce and all taht) and he lags on crisis with max settings. The games are going a tad to fast for the PCs, they are advancing to fast.
My cousin just got the Hp Blackbird 002, it works like a beauty. I was playing crisis on max settings with no problems at all. I think he has the Alpha configueration, it says on the site what it includes… only problem is its a huge pricetag of $5000 + monitor.
Wowy- have you tried looking at Alienware computers? They run from 1400-2100 and give pretty good performance.
Speaking of alienware, Yes I did look into those. They are a bit expensive though. I could only wish I had the money.
The Alienware stuff was good, until they were bought by Dell…
I did what you guys said and I built a desktop. The processor, which is the last part I need will be arriving tomorrow. Here’s the computers specs:
4GB 800Mhz DDR2 RAM
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0Ghz 6MB Cache 1333Mhz FSB
XFX nForce 680i LT SLI Motherboard
160GB 10000RPM Western Digital Hard Drive
450Watt Thermaltake PSU
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512MB
I’ll get some pics once I have the processor installed.
I completely forgot about my post here! 
sorry.
Anyway, heres some screenshots :
So far I actually got the processor up to 4Ghz on stock HSF. I know its not safe, but its only temporary until i get another fan. Besides, i’ve had it like this for almost a month now and no problems so far. Vista runs like MS-DOS on a P4. So far i’m really likeing this processor!
more pics later!
interesting, I forgot about that tool. I ran it on mine and got 5.9 on everything but calculations per second which was a 5.5.
Currently running stock settings on E8500 core duo 3.6GHz, 4GB Mushkin redline ddr2 (800?), Gigabyte x48 crossfire MB, and single DMM HD3870 video on Vista 32-bit.
With new sata hdd and rosewill 950w ps I spent just about a grand and using my old antec case and dvd-rw dl drive. plays ddo and war pretty decent so I’m happy.
Figure I’ll drop in the 2nd HD3870 around christmas. 8)
