Holy crap can 4 year old laptops even play games? Jesus. But technically there is no such thing as a gaming laptop unless your spending almost 5g’s on a laptop. My laptop is worth about $1400 and manages to play crysis on all medium (except shadows on low), 1280x800 dx9 mode (on vista 32bit) at a surprisingly playable 24 fps on average (sometimes as low as 14 or as high is 32). Not too shabby.
If your wondering its a Dell Inspiron 1520 with:
8600m gt (slightly overclocked core/shader/mem)
2 gb ddr2 667
T7500 2.2 Ghz core 2 duo
160gb 7200rpm hd