If you really mean a "gaming" laptop then you should look for notebooks with a ATI mobility 5870 graphic card + DDR5 memory, they start at the beginning of April for 1000$ (MSI / Medion...) already. Companies like Deviltech, Mysn and Asus sell already notebooks with such a high end graphic card's for around 1500$~ It is important that it got DDR5 memory for the GPU, a decent processor like a Core i5/i7, a good colling system else you can use such notebooks as heater in a cold winter or they are loud as hell and the display should have at least a 1680x1050 resolution, Full-HD (1920x1080) would be even better but that's optional for gaming. Notebooks like the M11X are small and cute, but they aren't future safe at all and only semi-usable as gaming notebook (Its ok for playing a round with friends somewhere). So expect to pay 1000-1500$ if you want to get a decent gaming notebook with a desktop pc like speed.