College Laptop with "Benefits"

1_What is your budget? 2000 max

2_What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? Doesn't matter, am not looking for anything light.

3_What screen resolution do you want? 1440*900 or higher

4_Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? Portable desktop (hahaha)

5_How much battery life do you need? Not too much of a concern, but 2 hours on max load would be nice

6_Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)? L4D High

7_What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo / Video editing, surfing the web, playing music, watching movies, Etc.) Pretty much everything

8_How much storage (H.D.D Capacity) do you need? 250Gb at least

9_If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post the links to them. Doesn't matter... brands don't matter

10_How long do you want to keep your laptop? 3-4 years

11_If you would like to mention some other things about purchasing your ideal laptop, post them. None

12_Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons. No Toshiba and no Alienware

13_What country do you live in? USA


Here is my goal for the laptop. I am going off to college in the upcoming summer to RPI, high end engineering school. I already have a great gaming desktop which i built myself, but likeliness of me being in the dorm for reasons other then sleeping is slim, so i am looking for some serious power on me. Also i don't want to be dragging my PC to the local lan-parties if i can bring just my laptop. Personally, i don't know very much about laptops and their gaming capabilities, and i assume they have zero overclockability. Tnx for your help : )