So I've made a new hobby out of making games run on AMD's APU dual-cores that have no business running on an APU. Does the AMD Fusion for Gaming actually do anything to run games better? Because I want to get this laptop: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834214400 to dick around with playing Source games and StarCraft 2 (for when I'm not at home)

Does that sound completely insane to you guys?

And, this is for Nikkom, I'm sorry PC discussion is so dead that you created the free portal thread. I went on steam and it didn't say anything about Portal being free though a bunch of my friends got it for free. So who knows?

I have no idea about AMD's APU cpu's as I don't have one, but as for Portal it is free until 9/20.

http://www.learnwithportals.com/

Also if you go to the Portal page on Steam, you can click on "Install Game" right there.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/400/

Completely insane no, but it doesn't seem to be a good idea.

From the AnandTech review of the A-350 (here)  you can see that it's barely capable of running games even at a lower resolution that the one of that laptop you've listed, so if you really want to play them on the go, look for somethig better.

Not the E350. If you want gaming then you'll need one of the A-8 line of APUs as they have higher clock speeds and better GPUs. These can apparently play CoD:BO on high at around 720P res (although I think this was desktop benchmarking).

Also worth remembering that as the system RAM is shared between CPU and GPU in the APU setup, faster system RAM also has a greater effect on frame rate than normal desktop setups with discrete graphics.