Gun's is pretty good, Acer is a good brand, mine has 2G more of RAM though. I've also had good luck with NVIDIA cards, never used an AMD card, so can't speak on that. Sickone would probably know more.
Titan,there's nothing wrong with Nvidia cards; I've used them for years! Much like any other computer component it has just as much potential to break over time. ^_^
However Imo laptops aren't made for intense gaming and those that can handle some it also depends what kind of gaming you are doing! High end intense games tend to make laptops over heat, seen it happen quite a few times!
You might want to reread what I wrote, I think NVIDIA is awesome :)
Yeah, laptops aren't amazing for gaming, but the one I listed could handle SC2 on medium, and WoW on probably the same. That's the only PC games I've ever played.
Chip, not card. And as far as graphics chips go, it doesn't appear bad. But in my two minutes of searching, I didn't see a games benchmark for it (chips don't usually get that kind benchmark lovin' anyway).
I'm sure they kick ass, but the numbers just don't add up for this budget. The laptop was $480. The cheapest 120 gig SSD on Newegg is $180 (I only did one search). That's 37.5% of the laptop's cost added back on top. Plus, he'd drop from 500 gigs down to 120.
If we were talking about a desktop, I'd say jump on it, as you can put the OS on the SSD and keep the 500 gig as a slave. But on a mid-range lappie, the cost doesn't warrant the switch.
My 2 cents, anyway. And will someone please add "SSD" to the dictionary?
1. Alien ware Laptop is already Unique and hard to acquire
2. Alien ware is probably over 800$ he looked.
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