Hi have been asked to recommend a gaming laptop but to be honest im not sure what the best ones are. I would guess that the new AMD laptops will be reasonably good but have not seen any yet. screen size 15" + Budget £500 or less Thanks.
Xps range starts at £550 so its out. currently looking at a HP Pavilion dv6-6001sa 15.6" Laptop. Has this graphics card AMD Radeon HD 6470M 512mb any one know how these compare to intel graphics ?
Don't get a Hp laptop they are the worst built laptops on the market. Look on the dell out let site there you can pick up a decent 15" XPS laptop with a i3, 3gb, 320b hdd and a 420GT for just under £500 Also here is a comparison of all the laptop gpu's http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-420M.35837.0.html
Some decent Dell offers can be found here: http://www.dmxdimension.com/ The Insirion 15(R) with i5 2410 & GT525m is a good base for £579ish. A little over budget but has a strong CPU and decent enough GPU (enough for 1366x768 and medium settings in most games).
I'd agree against HP. But sadly, with that budget you're just a bit short of the good stuff. Especially for "gaming", if you could go to at least 600ish you'd have an easier time.