Hello good residents of Bay 12! My current laptop is horribly insufficient for...just about most games, really. The utter lack of a decent dedicated graphics card is the primary obstacle to playing things; more than one game fails to read a DirectX-capable card and shuts down immediately.
SO! I'm looking for a laptop which would be capable of running modern games at a reasonable quality level. However, I would also like it to be capable of running games like DF (which can only use the one processor), and I'm not sure if it would be possible to fill both goals at the same time. Budget is somewhere less than $1,000 at the moment, but that should be enough to outperform what I have now.
Windows 7 Home Premium
Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU @ 2.30 GHz and 2.30 GHz
285 GB Storage
4 GB RAM
Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset
As a final note: Smartass comments about getting a desktop instead are not welcome. I travel a lot and desktops are not practical.