Help me buy a new laptop

[Soleron]

TheRealMafoo said:

Soleron said:

There are essentially zero laptops that have both, no matter how much you pay. 

You can definitely game on a MacBook Pro 17" with a GT 330M video card and an i7 CPU. You also get 8-9 hours of battery life out of it.

I would not recommend this laptop with respect to this thread, due to cost, but I just wanted to respond, being you said it could not be done at any cost :).

That's better than I thought existed, however the GT 330M is hardly fast. Performing short of a desktop GT 220 will mean low to medium settings at the native resolution on most games.

So it depends on the games he wants to play and the settings he'd like it to be, against battery life.