Your friend should buy an alienware. it comes preinstalled with steam and has a good graphics card. there are 3 laptops in with the Alienware brand name. tell your friend to go check them out.
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CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-540M Processor 2.53 GHz 3M Intel Smart Cache PGA988 [+70]HDD: 320GB 5400RPM SATA300 Hard DriveMEMORY: 4GB (2GBx2) DDR3-1333 SODIMM Memory (Corsair or Major Brand)MOTHERBOARD: Intel® PM55 Chipset MainboardSOUND: Built-in 3D Premium Surround SoundVIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M 1GB GDDR3 VRAM PCIe Video
link to a specific one please
http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-m11x/pd?refid=alienware-m11x&~ck=mnonly 800$comes preinstalled with steam.for more info read the entire link page please.
Toshiba Satellite A660 Series.I have the A665-S6050 and it's a great laptop for the price at which I bought it from Best Buy, which was $740 with tax.
Dell is a genious company.they can fool people who dont know much about computers, into buying an overpriced computer.all they have to do is create a sister company with a new brand name. lets call it alienware.then take all the same custom parts that every other budget computer part site on the internet uses, and put an extremely expensive stupid looking logo on it.idiots wont even know how badly they been suckered.they dont even realize there are 100 better websites to build this exact computer for about 50% less money.
The satellite series are prone to overheating. I've had 3, and they've overheated when I had them on my lap, with my legs nowhere near the fan outlet.