Laptop Buying Advice

McShambles

Apologies first and foremost for not putting this in the sub-£350 laptop thread but I doubt that what I want will fall into that price bracket!

Basically, I am migrating from having a three year-old desktop to a laptop (partly for the portability aspect) and in an ideal world, it would be at least as powerful as what I have now:

AMD Athlon(tm) 7750 Dual-Core Processor (2 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
4 GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series Graphics Card

Whilst I don't play the latest bleeding-edge games on a PC (I have a PS3 and 360), the prospective laptop would need to be able to run a decent number of leagues/a large database in Football Manager 2013 (particularly in terms of memory) and Skyrim (particularly in terms of the graphics card).

My budget is roughly £600, some of which I hope to gain from the sale of my desktop tower.

Ideally, the following would constitute the minimum criteria for each of the following specs:

Processor: At least equivalent to my current desktop, preferably a quad-core.
Screen: 15.6" or 17", preferably with a resolution higher than 1366x768.
Memory: At least 4GB DDR3 with room for more modules.
HDD: Not important in terms of size particularly as I have a 1TB external HDD.
Graphics Card: One that can run Skyrim smoothly, so it would most likely need to have dedicated memory.

Less important than the above are the following:

10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet Card.
4 USB slots, at least one of which is USB 3.0.
Battery life of at least five hours.

The closest I've found myself is this Acer Aspire 5755G on SaveOnLaptops (at £599), which I can't link to because I am a new user:

It only falls down slightly on the battery life and screen resolution.

Any help on finding something better/cheaper whilst still ticking those boxes would be greatly appreciated!

Cisco001

Is £630 OK to you?

http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/enigmaIV/
i7 3630QM
1 x 4GB RAM
GT 650m
250GB WD Scorpio black (you could upgrade to SSD/ or seagate momentus xt if you can play extra)
Screen upgradable to 1920 x 1080 for £35. But you can always hook it to your monitor.

The only thing not sure is battery life. You could probably contact them and ask. However, I don't think you would be able to find long battery life with high end CPU and GPU.

McShambles

Thanks for your advice - it seems like a good website to try different builds on whilst comparing them at the same time!