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If you're buying Lenovo, I much prefer the ThinkPad series, but I agree with the other comments on the Y50. It is a go-to for a lot of people. but yeah... you can look into the Lenovo entertainment/media computers

(Biased cause I've been a Lenovo use for a long time. They're super reliable. I can't say they've failed me, especially the ThinkPads!)

@Dupants: how so

Its been said before but Y50 is a goto. You get a decently powerful rig with portability. The battery life is weak but I live in cali as well and you and I both know theres an outlet to charge your device everywhere.

[quote=krishman]lenovo y50[/quote]
waste of money lol

lenovo y50 as quotea from guy above is decent gaming laptop (red lighting pretty cool too)
anyways, for maplestory or league, all you really need is an i5

lenovo y50

[quote=BatmanBeyond]The games I mostly want to play are just MS and League and I want it to be (performance wise) pretty good for other programs like school essentials (Microsoft Office, web browsing, etc). I know the graphic card has to be like Nivdea or AMD Radeon and over i5+ core for my processor? Over 1.9ghz too if possible.[/quote]

A laptop with an i5 will be nice for you to have. The 1.9 GHz is going to be a given; Ultrabook i5s turbo boost to over 2.5 GHz and fully featured mobile i5s turbo boost to over 3.0 GHz.

You don't need a discrete GPU (the AMD Radeon and Nvidia GeForce stuff.) The games you play aren't so demanding that they're unplayable on Intel integrated graphics. Discrete GPUs also confer some drawbacks, most notably increased electrical power requirements which means less battery time per charge as well as being an additional heat source which means that the laptop has to be designed with a heavier internal cooling system.

[quote=BatmanBeyond]Battery life is important to me because my old laptop kept having to be recharged like every hour since I killed the charger a lot.[/quote]

The thing about laptop batteries, and even the batteries in smartphones and tablets, is that they degrade over time. Six years is really old for a laptop so it's not unusual for that battery to no longer hold that much charge.

[quote=BatmanBeyond]I was also told I can find ASUS laptops online at like pcpartpicker or bestbuy but I do not really know how to navigate through spec choices really well (especially for gaming). Hoping someone could help me out. [/quote]

[url=http://pcpartpicker.com]PCPartPicker[/url] is actually an online resource that tracks the prices of desktop components for those interested in building gaming desktop computers.

The two most popular online retailers for shipped computers are [url=http://www.amazon.com]Amazon[/url] and [url=http://www.newegg.com]Newegg[/url], both of these sellers likely have a larger selection of laptops specifically from ASUS than would Best Buy. ASUS probably makes the best Ultrabooks in your price range and these kinds of systems are quite portable and power efficient too. However, ordering a shipped laptop factory-direct can be cheaper e.g. [url=http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/]Lenovo[/url] and [url=http://www.dell.com/us/p/laptops]DELL[/url] than it would be buying from a retailer.

I do not have the time tonight to be looking at the best deals for you right now, so I've left this much information so that maybe you can try to find something. If not, come back tomorrow night or on the weekend.

Both games do not need a graphical processing power. You do not need a dedicated graphics card (but it would be good to have one of course). So you can just use intel onboard graphics and funnel your money elsewhere since $700 isn't going to get you a great gaming laptop. For Radeon, the higher numbers mean better graphics card. I've only really looked at the high-end cards so I can't say too much here. The same numbering is for Nvidia but it varies. The first number of nvidia is similar to the generation number. The second is the "grade" of the graphics card. So GT720 would beat a GT620, but GTX750 would beat a GTX740. Also the X in some cards are better than the ones without the X. So GTX620 would be better than GT620.

8 GB ram is pretty standard nowadays so look for that. I'd say minimum 6 GB but that's cutting it close if you want to be on the internet, play 2 games at once, and video chat with someone online at the same time (because windows uses ~1 GB ram while you aren't doing anything). I've personally never used up 8 GB recently, but sometimes I wish I had more. I recommend 8 GB even on a budget.

You should get an i5 or an i7 for the CPU. It doesn't really matter which and doesn't matter too much what generation it is either. i7 has better performance, but that isn't to say that a top tier i5 wouldn't beat a low-grade i7. It doesn't matter too much what you should get. Pretty much anything is over 1.9Ghz now but you still shouldn't be looking at the top processors with that budget. For a processor, again the higher the number the better. The first number is again, the generation. i7-47xx would beat i7-37xx if the 3rd and 4th numbers are the same. The higher the number the better the processor.

HDD is cheap. $500-700 is too cheap for an SSD so just look for a 500 GB HD.

Battery life is good for any computer as long as you take care of it. Take it out of the laptop when you aren't using it. If you are playing games at over 60 C take out the battery.

You can probably get a good deal off of ebay since prices tend to be cheaper there.