Friend looking to buy new laptop

[iFargle]

Very maximum budget: $1,200, although wanting to spend around $1,000

Here's what he wants: Decent gaming laptop (enough to make him happy... games like Crysis (on lowest), AoE3, Command & Conquer 3 medium, as well as others)

he wants Photoshp CS3/4 to run smoothly

He also wants to know if anyone has a nice, decent, in shape laptop at a decent spec, he'll be willing to buy it off of ya.

Any laptops for recommendation? Thanks!

 

[b1gapl]

I'd say this is a great deal for $1000:
Asus - Laptop with Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor - Black - G72GX-RBBX05

C2D 2.53GHz
6GB RAM
GTX 260M
17.3" LED
500GB
W7 Home Premium 64-bit

Should be able to play Crysis at medium to high settings.

 

[iFargle]

Thanks for the recommendation. He's wanting to know the difference between the Core 2 Duo's, the i3's, and the i7's in mobile computers (I don't know very much in this area)

Are the i7's quad core or eight core? What about the i3's?

 

[b1gapl]

The i3, i5, i7 mobile CPUs are newer and faster than the mobile C2Ds.

There are two kinds of mobile i7 processors. i7 Arrandale (i7-6xx) are dual cores, and the i7 Clarksfield (i7-7xx, 8xx, 9xx) are the quad cores.

i3 processors are also Arrandale which are dual cores.