Best Gaming Laptop for under $1200.

Hello. As the title states above, I'm looking for the best gaming laptop I can get for the money. The thing is though, I will be taking this laptop to college, and using it to type notes on. So right now, I'm just considering 15inch laptops. ( I believe a 17 inch monster woulld turn quite a few heads if i were to slam that thing down on a desk...) I'm honestly looking for something around $999, but for the sake to consider more options, I'll put a max of $1200. Currently looing at the MSI GT627.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6834152095
You may view that from the above link.

Just as a note, I have been looking around for quite awhile now, but my lack of knowledge on how Laptop Graphic cards ( what card is better than another) is making this decision hard.

Opinions are greatly appreciated! Looking for a push in the right direction. Thanks.

just realized your budget is alot higher than mine.. im spending a total of $850 for mine
Getting MSI MS1651 ID2
nVIDIA geFORCE 9600mGT DDR3 512mb
4GB OCZ 800MHZ
250gb seagate 7200.4 hard drive
Intel Wifi 5300
and my resolution is 1680x1050
forgot Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 2.8GHZ 6mb L2 Cache and 1066MHZ FSB

The Asus G51VX may have the best GPU, but the processor is average/ below average, and probably eats up the battery really fast.

Thanks for the link Espada. It helped a lot. This is defintely given me a few things to consider. More opinions/recommendatons are welcome!

He is looking for a 15'' laptop buddy.

I think he meant me, but that's ok. As long as he finds what he needs it doesn't matter.

Assuming you're taking the laptop to class, I'd say a 14" would be a better choice.
If you're primarily leaving it back in the dorms or apartment, then I'd recommend you getting a cheap laptop or just get a desktop.

Desktop at half the price of a laptop would still perform better than a laptop.
Getting rid of it is easy, just put it on craigslist when you're going to move out, etc.

Gaming laptops are just a bad idea in general, you're paying more for less. Think twice.

I plan on having a gaming Laptop and a desktop Johnyeah. The main reason, as espada has said, for how easy it will be to take to lan parties, ect. I'm not looking for a desktop replacement, but just a mobile gaming system, that I can take into class every once in awhile to take notes on. Killing two birds with one stone, you could say.

found this in asus website...
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.asp [...] uage=en-us
not sure if they fixed it. but then again all post were from 6/30/2009!
hope this helped you out with the decision and nice setup with the msi laptop! i just have to say take consideration when going with 32bit to 64bit.. my sis uses 32bit which is okay but me and a couple other team mates use 64bit just because i think its good for looking at the ram. 32bit on laptop only finds 3gb of ram max, 64bit 8 gigs! with vista of course not sure about windows 7 and just tell me once you open that thread ill be glad to help!