Good laptops?

Hi I'm curently looking for a laptop to take with me on a 9 month trip, I want it to be able to play games, not really new games...

Here's a few of the games I wanna be able to play at mid-high settings:

Sims 2
WOW (and expansions while we're at it)
Age of empire 3 (was told it was a straineous game so it's not as important)
Hellgate london
KOTOR 1 & 2
Dark Star one
Fable

As stated above I want to be able to play kost of these games on mid-high settings (mid being the minimum I'd settle for)

I also tend to have high memory applications open so 2 to 3 gigs would be nice as well as 1.66 to 2 ghz CPU

as for the price range I'll say around 900 to 1000 but I'd be looking for sales, also Newegg is irelevant to me as I am in Canada.