Choosing laptop help
 

Was looking to upgrade my laptop and came across this and thought it was a pretty good deal
ASUS S56CM-DH71 Intel Core i7 3517U 6GB 1TB GeForce GT635M 15.6in DVDRW BT Windows 8 Notebook

Would this be able to run battlefield smoothly?
Mostly gonna be using it for school and some gaming so something not to heavy or big and i wouldnt have to upgrade for awhile with an alright battery life

Was wondering if this is a good deal or if there was something better around that price range

TIA

EDIT: i looked at another site and it said the max battery life was about 5 hours

Battlefield?! the game requires intense graphics. It WILL run but only decent. You will prob not enjoy it more than a desktop.

Upgrading for a while? Technology is constantly changing, so having a laptop to play the lastest games is probably not ideal

What's your current laptop?

Probably better to get a decent gaming desktop and use your current laptop for school.

The laptop you linked is alright, but I hate the fact that manufacturers such as ASUS keep pumping out 15.6" notebooks with shit 1366x768 resolution. It's so outdated, and even on 13.3" notebooks, it's pushing it.

Depends, I say 720p is good enough for a 15inch. 1080 is really pushing it. The desktops icons and docs/webpage will be really tiny so you are better off with a 720p resolution. Beside playing games on a laptop is not ideal unless you pick a gaming laptop but it will run you at least $1600 for a decent gaming laptop.

What he said. I have a Sager NP9150 gaming laptop and I can run battlefield on med/high at 1920x1080 resolution. You would need a pretty expensive laptop if you want to run games on high graphics.

Thanks for the input guys, decided to wait to see if there's gonna be any christmas sales coming up

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Or you can wait till Black Friday sales. They usually have some cheap laptops.
I recently got the HP Envy dv6-7250CA really nice laptop. I was gooing at the dell Inspiron 15R Special Edition.

Both seems good for the price but the dell laptop just look ugly and really buiky and thier customer service is really bad (I actually order form dell frist and then saw they have another 15R on sale with better specs and since mine is sitll in production I call and ask if I can switch my order...... they can't even find my order and wasted basically over 2hours total to realize I order through their Canadian site and not the US one and therefore I have to call the Canada toll free number. I call the Cananda toll free number and was given the run around and got trasnfer back to the US line. Just got piss and cancel).

HP seems decent so far, graphics looks good, it does get a little warmer when playing games but with a good laptop cooler the laptop seems to hover aorund 65 degree or so which isn't bad at all.

To be honest unless you are willing to drop at least $1200 your laptop is either going to look cheap(cheapy plastic), horrible spec(even some of the laptop looks good on paper but they use suck poor parts that the CPU have to be throttle down) or poor customer service.

Is also best to get a business class laptop if you have the money. They are built more soild, better parts and usually they have better customer service.