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Originally Posted by wellard
Thanks for the feedback 
Yes you are right I should give a price range. Max would be $1300 US ($1500 Aus) and the max size is 15 or 16 inch screen
Work programmes and office 2003 (excel/word /power point stuff) and some older games / internet is all I really need. I could spend more but I work as an engineer and very far away from an office environment. The likelihood of it getting dropped/bashed/wet is high 
My home PC will always be THE gaming centre of my world |
Alright. If you could link to a store you would be purchasing your laptop from, that'd also be great. I don't know what electronic sellers you really have in Australia, and I'm almost positive major laptop vendors sell different models in different countries (although I could be wrong).
In either case, the best advice I can offer up to this point is this. Any laptop where it doesn't have Intel graphics is probably an ideal laptop. Intel's IGP (integrated graphics processor), known as their GMA series, has been notorious for setting the bar extremely low with integrated graphics. Both Nvidia and AMD have done tremendous jobs with their IGP solutions. Their discrete solutions are of course, even more ideal. But if you are playing older games, depending on how "old" they are, you might be able to get away with an integrated solution from Nvidia and AMD.
Here is a review of a ~$880.00 USD laptop.
http://techreport.com/articles.x/18778/1
Something like this seems like it'd cater to your needs well. Of course, since you have a higher budget if you want to spring for something a little better, that is certainly doable.