Laptop for college

[Rennn]

I'm heading off to college in just over a month. My new job has terrible hours, but I'm making a pretty large amount of money, and I'm going to need a laptop. I don't really want a gaming laptop per se, as those cost too much and I'd rather stick with my desktop rig for heavy gaming. However, I definitely want the laptop to be able to run older games on low settings, such as Oblivion, Morrowind, Daggerfall, etc. I'm looking for a laptop with an actual graphics card, but it doesn't have to be very good, as I'd like the price to stay loosely around $600 and I'm not buying it for the eyecandy.

 

Here are some options I'm considering. Please point out anything you see wrong with them, and give advice on which one(s) are best.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215417

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215419

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834214862

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215411 (This is the one I'm leaning towards atm)

Edited July 17, 2012 by Rennn

[blove]

Laptop Video Graphics Cards - Benchmark List at Notebook Check - has mobile graphics comparisons.

 

Graphics Card Hierarchy Chart at Tom's Hardware - has desktop and mobile graphics comparisons, but is not very complete, still useful though.

 

Dropping the second and third laptops due to slower graphics cards with shared memory. The first and fourth laptops are close to the same, but I prefer the first over the fourth because of an i5 over an i3, a 630M 2GB over a 630M 1GB, and is only $20 more.

 

Acer Aspire V3-571G-6602 Notebook Intel Core i5 2450M(2.50GHz) 15.6" 4GB Memory 500GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M

[Erik005]

Have you seen this one yet

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834214870