Good laptop for gaming.

[Tom_green_day]

So I'm going to uni in a few months and my family is treating me by letting me buy a laptop- nothing expensive, just a few hundred pounds (UK) since I'm doing a course that involves Creative Writing and therefore will need it.
The thing is I'm a console gamer and although older games (Morrowind, Fallout) and Indie games (Minecraft, FTL etc) work on my PC, I can't really play modern games on it. I've always wanted to buy Skyrim and the 2 modern Fallouts and mod the hell out of them, but I realise this requires a chunky PC.
My question is, are there any cheap laptops that will be able to handle it? Thanks.
PS. I can't use a PC, it has to be laptop. Also I don't want to construct it, it needs to be a full bundle.
Cheers!

 

[AWAR]

The problem is that gaming laptops are expensive. I would recommend any laptop with AMD A8 series APU, ideally an A10.
You should be able to run Fallout on medium, Skyrim should be barely playable on low settings though.
Avoid laptops with intel processors at this price range because they don't have a decent graphics card.

 

[Supernova1138]

Yeah, don't expect much out of a low cost laptop when it comes to modern games. Generally speaking if you want to play modern titles above low-medium settings, you have to spend $1000 USD minimum, with a $1500+ being the recommended budget for laptop gaming.

At your budget, you will probably be restricted to integrated graphics, or at best a very low end discrete GPU that is at best marginally better than the integrated graphics chip. I echo the above statement and say go for an AMD A10 based laptop if at all possible, it has the best integrated graphics you can get at a reasonable price point. Battery life won't be as good as Intel based laptops as AMD's chips aren't that power efficient, but most of Intel's integrated graphics offerings are very poor at gaming. Supposedly Intel's HD 5200 integrated graphics chip is decent and is competitive with the integrated graphics on the A10, but it is only available on a small number of laptop CPUs, and they all tend to be rather pricey, and are probably above your budget.

 

[Tom_green_day]

Ah ok thanks people, I guess that's a no for now!