What's a good gaming laptop?

College student here, in dire need of a new laptop.  I dropped my old one and the screen cracked.  Plus it's rather old and slowly starting to die on me.
So with that said, I need a laptop for school, but I also need it to be able to run WoW and LoL.  I have know nothing about computers, so I don't really know what I'm looking for.  Any suggestions?

Like the other contributor suggested, any laptop with a dedicated card (nVIDIA/AMD VISION sticker on it) Will give you better performance than integrated graphics.
Best bang for your buck would be a laptop with an AMD Trinity Processor, and AMD Vision graphics.
While it won't give you the best performance in the world, it will be able to run WoW & LoL at very good framerates at a decent screen resolution (720p HD). (should run you about 500-750)
If you're looking for something with a little more pizzaz and don't mind spending some more money there is a 14" Asus G41 series gaming laptop with an i5 processor, an nVIDIA GTX 660M graphics card that will give you fantastic performance, and also be a bit more future-proof in case you wanted to expand your gaming horizon in the coming months.
Good luck, always good to have more PC gamers.
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