Recomendation for laptop for College & Gaming

My son is going to be entering college this fall. I guess he needs a laptop instead of his current desktop (gaming) rig. He is also an avid gamer.

Assuming he has time for his gaming (haha), is there a good gaming laptop that anyone can recommend? Right now, I am assuming that an Alienware would work - but I hoping there is a good (cheaper) alternative (anything but a Dell - I hate Dells).

Thanks

Do not buy Alienware laptops. I have owned two, bought the first, and the second was a "free upgrade" for problems I had. Both Laptops are crap, and the AW support for laptops is horrid, to the point of getting answers like "play a different game then" when calling to figure out why a game advertized to "runs best on Alienware" would not even load on the machine.

The AW forums (which are not public due to how much the AW owners slam AW and thier machines) have a litany of problems that describe how bad these things really are.

I know you don't like Dell, but the current lappy I use to run games on is the Dell, and it is fast and rock solid stable.

He wants a 17" - he has always been spoiled - so I guess the price range is probably around 2K give or take.

Yeah, I see a lot of anti Dell posts, and I used to be leary of them too, but my last 2 desktops and 2 laptops have been Dell (no time these days to build ) and I have been pleasantly surprised. Thier support for me has been top notch too. Maybe I am just lucky, who knows.

As for Dell buying AW, I hope this means AW cleans up thier act, they are the worst purchase I have ever made and are among ony 2 companies I will never ever buy from again, and that is after well over 2 decades of building and buying tech hardware.

Just an Update:

As of now, it looks like I am leaning toward a Sager 5720.

What do you guys think of that?