Need Laptop recommendations for a friend

[MaV II DARK II]

Basically he wants a laptop with a 15 inch screen that can play games like gta4, crysis, tf2, rainbow six vegas, aoe1, and diablo. He has a budget of $1200 and I wanted to see what you guys would recommend.

 

[TheOtis]

For $99 more he could get this beast-

Newegg.com - ASUS G Series G50VT-X6 NoteBook Intel Core 2 Duo P8700(2.53GHz) 15.4" Wide SXGA+ 4GB Memory 320GB HDD 7200rpm DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS - Laptops / Notebooks

or for $100 less-

Newegg.com - MSI GT627-216US NoteBook Intel Core 2 Duo P8400(2.26GHz) 15.4" Wide XGA 4GB Memory 320GB HDD 7200rpm DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS - Laptops / Notebooks

Both great brands, 4GB of RAM, 9800M, and good procs.

EDIT: If he wants a custom laptop tell him to check out custom gaming laptops - Welcome to Sager Notebooks

I would suggest staying away from Alienware and other boutique laptops

 

[snowsurfer]

Good luck with GTAIV and Crysis on anything except the lowest of the low settings. GTAIV will work like crap even like that, the console port is horrible.