I haven't been keeping up with laptop hardware tbh, so hopefully someone will step in and correct me if I say something incorrect.
From what I understand, that graphics cards (nVidia GeForce 310M) is the low-end of the 3xxM integrated chip series. This means this card will have issues running much more than the most basic of 3d effects.
Looking for recommendations, will update post with a list shortly.
EDIT:
At first glance, these look to be your better bets.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834114797
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834114804
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834220669
But as I said, my laptop gaming experience is a little limited as of late. It may be worthwhile to take this to the tech support forums and ask them as well, but from my understanding of Positron's Ultra-mode video card shopping guide Those should be at least at the mark to run the graphics at the low to medium end. You would be very hard pressed to find a laptop graphics card that will run at the high-end without going much much more expensive. I'm not even 100% sure that they released a video card that's equivalent or better than the 285GTX for laptops.
I'm not knowledgeable regarding laptops at all.... but a coworker of mine got this one last week and is happy thus far...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834114797
Thank you, Champion.
only think I would say see if you can find one in a real store and see if you like the feel of the keyboard and like the screen (Odd size 1600x900) my 17" lappy has 1920X1200
2/3 main things I would look at are there. Proc and speed of the HD ..
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So. My laptop is on its last legs, and I've been looking at newegg for a replacement. I'm relavtively incompetent when it comes to what's better than what, especially when it comes to gaming, so I'm coming to you, my fellow Championites. This is what I've got picked out so far: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834127043
Good? Bad? Improvements? I'd like to be able to play Ultra Mode without a problem, but still stay roughly within the same price range. Is this even possible?