I wanted to buy a laptop but im very puzzled!

Greetings!

I want to buy a notebook for the university, but at the same time, I want a notebook that will do very good at gaming. I don't want to pay more than 2500/2600$ WITH taxes and shipping fees.

So i was considering the Dell 1720 until I found out that the Nvidia 8600m GT with only DDR2 is a huge disapointement.

So now, I'm very puzzled because I just don't know what to do! Dell 1720 had everything I wanted for a good price, but its GPU is weak wich is very bad. And others company sells their laptops at almost 3000$ and sometimes they only have the DDR3 8600m GT wich im sure isnt worthing the 350$/500$ extra.


What I exactly want is a laptop 17'' that will run most current games and games that will release in the next 3 years at a decent resolution(I dont need the HIGH resolution) and with a FPS of at least 30+, good picture/graphic quality(so at least at med settings). I plan on playing WoW again for a little bit, BF2142, and 1 of those 3 incoming MMORPG : Pirates of the Burning Sea(www.burningsea.com), Warhammer Online or Age of Conan(probably this one). And of course Starcraft2 and some others future games that we just dont knowabout yet.

Can you please advice me on what should I do? Should I just wait for a few months until we start seeing more 8700m GT at 512mo at a lower price? Should I get a 7900GTX even if it's not a dx10 GPU? I just don't know what i should do

Thank you in advance for ur help.

^ Oh rly? The laptop in my sig cost me 2300 bucks and kicks some major butt in games. If you mean compared to desktops then I agree. Laptops can almost never come close to matching the horsepower that desktop have to offer, but to say they never play games well is a fallacy.