Decent older Dell gaming laptop?

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I'm looking to get a Dell laptop that would run Cities: Skylines decently, but still not break the bank. I'm thinking about something newer than a Latitude E6540, but I'm not sure what a good CPU/graphics combination would be.

Budget: ~$300
I'm in Pennsylvania, USA
 
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I have a E6540 as my mobile PC. It can run Cities Skylines, but not very well. I am getting about 20fps at 1080p, so I never play it on my laptop.

For Cities you need a lot of memory, especially if you like to use mods (the way the game is meant to be played).

What kind of budget are we talking about? EDIT: And where do you live?
 
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Work provided my an E6540 with 16Gb of RAM, and I did a test run of Skylines... so I know it can do it, but not great. (This was boss approved, over the weekend. I do not keep games on my work laptop.)

My home PC is running an AMD A10 with 8Gb, and with >100k population Skylines gets pretty jittery.
 
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I would try to get one a Dell Precision or Lenovo W series laptop. They normally have K1100 or better Quadro cards in them which will do a lot better with Cities than the E6540.

EDIT: Example http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precision-M6700-17-i7-3740QM-16GB-RAM-128GB-SSD-Win7-Pro-AMD-FirePro-M6000-/292201616757?hash=item440892d575:g:2aQAAOSwSj1ZgQjn DVD Drive not working though*

Example for slightly more money http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precision-M6800-Mobile-Workstation-i7-2-80-GHZ-AMD-FirePro-M6100-8GB-500GB/122624410618?_trkparms=aid%3D888007%26algo%3DDISC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D45701%26meid%3D3e98f2454b5b4edabce37a1ad2681177%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D2%26sd%3D232417579428&_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982
 
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