Need laptop for college and gaming

1_What is your budget? About $2400

2_What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 17"

3_What screen resolution do you want? good one

4_Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? Portable gaming laptop would be best since i need to carry it to class.

5_How much battery life do you need?as much as a good laptop can

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. Mostly new games that are coming out soon... like diablo 3 GW2 Crysis starcrafts and whatnot would like dx11 if possible

Contradictory statements!!

17" laptop that is portable?

Laptop with good battery with high quality settings?

Pff.. you have a lenient budget, but your stretching it...

Here is a good Sager notebook, customize it with the following changes:

http://www.sagernotebook.com/index [...] ame=NP8170


$2.274,00
Display 17.3" Full HD LED-Backlit Display with Super Glossy Surface (1920 x 1080)
Video & Graphics Card Nvidia GeForce GTX 580M GPU with 2GB GDDR5 Video Memory [$595.00]
CPU Processor 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-2720QM Processor ( 6MB L3 Cache, 2.20GHz) [$160.00]
Thermal Compound IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU [$40.00]
Operating System Genuine MS Windows® 7 Home Premium 32/64-Bit Edition ( 64-Bit Preloaded )
Memory 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 4GB [$60.00]
RAID Storage Options Non-RAID Storage
Primary Hard Disk Drive 500GB 7200rpm SATA 300 Hard Drive
Optical Drive Bay — Optical Drive or Hard Disk Drive in Optical Drive Bay with Caddy case 8X DVD±R/RW/4X +DL Super-Multi Drive & Software
Wireless Network Card Internal 802.11 B+G+N Wireless LAN + Bluetooth Combo Module
Primary Battery Smart Li-ION Battery Pack
Integrated Security Device Fingerprint Reader
Microsoft Office Microsoft Office Starter 2010 - Included in Price
Warranty Sager 1 Year Limited Parts and Labor Warranty
Carrying Bag Standard Carrying Bag


The best single laptop GPU on the planet, be ready to max out games! (Besides the 6990)

1) never thought of it

2) a computer i made 2 years ago

3) the games dont have to be maxed settings the gaming would be for if i am traveling and not at my home computer

4)3d gaming hurts my eyes

5)nope