I have the G73SW, and you certainly will NOT see 4hts 37min of battery life. I and most others seem to avg around 3hrs.

However, with that said. This laptop is great, the CPU handles everything incredibly well, and overall cooling is good and not noisy.

If you want a bit cheaper than TigerDirect, amazon has the G73SW-XA1 for $1400. Only differences are:

XA1 = dvd burner, 750gb, 1yr warranty/ 1 accidental

XT1 = blueray, 500gb, and 2yr warranty/1year accidental

The GTX460m isnt the best mobile GPU, but it runs rather cool, in most cases I dont go above 70c in a 80f room. I prefer gaming laptops as well, less power, less heat expelled, and best of all, easy to move around. Checkout the Notebookreview.com forums if you want to read more about the G73, there is quite a large community over there.

Tell him to look into this, http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus+-+Factory-Refurbished+Laptop+/+Intel%26%23174%3B+Core%26%23153%3B+i7+Processor+/+17.3%22+Display+/+6GB+Memory+/+640GB+Hard+Drive+-+Black/2070069.p?skuId=2070069&id=1218307909933 Also, for the best place to get recommendations try asking on, http://forum.notebookreview.com, not only is it the best place to do all your research, but they are much more welcoming to the idea of laptops than the GS forums, so you'll get much better responses.

[QUOTE="xLittlekillx"]

You wouldn't download a CAR, would you?!

True_Sounds

You wouldn't download a BEAR, would you?!

[QUOTE="crazymonkey092"]I usually sit about a arm-length away. ChiliDragon

Ha, psychic I see. :>

Yeah, for the most part I'm on a 17" laptop. But once in a while I get on my desktop, which only has a 19" hooked up to it. So not much a difference.

metroidfood

Ah, yes, the door booster, I'm using that now in my mini stations. I'd have to say mine is more practical for SMP so more than 1 person can travel on it at a time.

But more so, I have to admit, minecraft does get boring doing the same thing over and over, so I built it also for the challenge, whether or not its based off of an already created system, I still did my best to add my own unque ways. And I definitrly learned so much about boosters doing it.

However, after I made it, i saw the door booster post, and just a few days ago, I finally got around to making one, and its def top notch(no pun). I love it, and will prob only be using that for now on.

Honestly, I'm glad there isnt much of a story, gives you so much room to do w/e u want without interference of already implemented features in the game.

[QUOTE="KHAndAnime"]It's decent but it's really lacking in just about everything at the moment. I built myself a tower and it begs the question: now what?metroidfood

Build an automated minecart subway station. :P

That's what I'm doing right now.

Like this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1fwCevNqCM :>

But yeah, find something big you'd like to do, and just start on it. For me it was a themepark, which turned into a city, which turned into a subway, etc etc. Overall, minecraft is def fun, even fun just messing with textures since just about anybody can make their own.