Recommendations for a inexpensive but good gaming laptop

[ameratsu]

Lol, that's a nice oxymoron in the title. Good gaming laptops are expensive, period. For anything in the $1000 price range you're not going to be getting very good performance.

Anyway, I looked at the m1330, and you can get an optional 8400m gs for $125. You will not be gaming with the included onboard card. Even the $125 8400m GS is pretty damn weak. What sort of games are you looking to play?

To give you an idea of where certain graphics cards stand, see this chart on tom's hardware. The 8400M GS is pretty far down there.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Best-Graphics-Card,2033-7.html