Ok you were taking forever and I wanted to toss up some things before I forgot to mention them.
GPU is going to be your single largest bottleneck in looking for a laptop. GPUs generally can't be upgraded or not easily and they start off slow from the start. Most games are GPU limited not CPU. Starcraft is a more CPU intense game, but it is an older game and most CPUs can give it a good throttling. Bare in mind when your GPU on a laptop says for example 7970...it is no where near the 7970 that is in my desktop. It is a mobile version and has far less computing power.
We will start with a round of questions:
Do you have to have a laptop?
My reason for asking this is, does your current laptop perform everything else well and just not gaming? If so, build a desktop and profit from two machines. I will gladly assist those in need of advice on current gear and best bang for the buck. It is quite easy to spend money aimlessly and make poor choices in hardware that are complete excess, lesser performers, and simply far to expensive for no reason.
If you have to purchase another laptop rate these things on a scale from 1-5 of importance:
Size:
Battery Life:
Video Card:
Processing Power:
Features I.E. wireless card options, sound, bluetooth, backlighting:
Display Quality <IPS, Resolution, Matte, Glossy, Nit>:
RAM <please list a description of what applications outside of games you need excess RAM for>:
Hard Drive Space:
Solid State Drive <if you don't know Ill explain later>:
Budget:
Answer those questions and Ill start narrowing some options. I m hoping you will decide on a desktop as your other needs are met by the current machine. If so we can build a sweet ass desktop that will have no quandaries with SC2 and most up and coming titles. Ill toss some options up as I find them regardless of the list and we can go from there as well. Bare in mind with give and take it broadens your options on laptops greatly; A laptop forces you to be stuck with particular hardware for some time (in your case 3 years) so you need to be happy with it.
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