I don´t know how to build a laptop by myself.
Sadly I do not expect to play Rage on a laptop.

So you'd only consider a laptop? Then yeah, MSI aren't a company I've heard anything bad about. But I'd consider a Dell if screen quality is important to you. They also don't explode as much as they used to. Which is good.

Go for an ASUS Gxxx-something. I have an ASUS G71G lappy, and its... its... its... beautiful! In looks and in performance. :) Also, everything is working perfectly so far, no bugs, bad parts, or other crap like that.

Except for the stupid DVD drive that doesn't read all DVDs anymore. It reads all CDs just fine.

Gotta add to the MSI recommendations. I've had problems with ASUS motherboards including one which was their top of the line model a couple of years back, replaced it with an MSI board and it's been nice and reliable, no strange problems at all. (This is on a desktop gaming system though)

I'm not a big fan of gaming laptops though, you can get a far better desktop system for less of the price and you can always improve the screen and upgrade the base unit. Also bear in mind that the battery life will be utter rubbish 90% of the time due to the power requirements of the chipset and fairly noisy as the heat dispersion in such a confined space is difficult and so as soon as it begins to get dust etc inside it, the fans will have to run faster and noiser or you'll have to clean it out fairly regularly. They're not really much of a portable-play anywhere unit. Is there any reason why you specifically need a gaming laptop?

of course you can get a barebone and the components. wouldn't be comfortable with that though

one of the barebones provider also proposes other solutions, like this one

http://www.clevo.fr/contents/fr/p339.html

Yes, i need it for work and to use it on the university library.
I will make my own desk computer, of course. But later, when Rage is released :-)
My Acer Laptop crashed this Friday.

then you would be better with a laptop that is not directed at gamers.. . I had assumed too fast that since you looked at alienware

MSI has a few fine "middle range" models too, with i5s and nvidia425/radeon 54xx

i found these :

- GE603 (http://www.pixmania.com/es/es/8374635/art/msi/ge603227es.html)
-CX620 (http://www.pixmania.com/es/es/7691568/art/msi/port-cx620070es-i54304-64.html)

you couls also consider this Samsung : http://www.pixmania.com/es/es/7317348/art/samsung/portatil-samsung-rf510-ne.html

Let's just hope it's not delayed for another year.

I was thinking to use it for casual gameplay, to play some Dawn of War 2 or anything like that.
I´ve paid attention to that alienware laptop because it is not very expensive and I thought it may not have many configuration problems. Thanks for your advice, very kind indeed.

This one looks great
http://www.pixmania.com/es/es/8374635/art/msi/ge603227es.html

Most of the modern laptop chipsets are fine as far as compatibility is concerned. As long as the laptop has a mainstream Nvidia or Radeon chipset you'll be hard pressed to find a major game which won't run on it provided it meets the specifications. (smaller more independant games may not have support though.) The only chipset to avoid really is an intel one; they tend not to fully support certain things such as shader 2.1 and so won't run a lot of modern games even if the rest of the spec is up to scratch (they're really only designed for HD decoding etc, with gaming as an afterthought.) oh and go for a graphics chip that doesn't used shared memory so it's not eating into your ram.

the 1199 alienware is just an i3-370, 3gb of ram, nvidia 240 and 160gb hdd

if I were you, I'd prefer an I5 ( although the i3 is actually not that bad ), at least 4 gigs of ram and a larger HDD ( 500 GB) .

If you're not a linux user, it's a fine machine . The nvidia 425m optimus function is however not available under linux.

Build it by yourself, I tell ya...

At last I´ve bought this one, they will send it to me on May 4th.
http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=n00x7m06&c=es&l=es&s=dhs&cs=esdhs1&model_id=xps-l702x
I´ve made some modifications
From:
2nd generation Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM processor 2.00 GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 2.90 GHz
To:
Intel® Core™ i7-2720QM S.G 2,20 GHz cWith Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 3,30 GHz
From:
DDR3 4.096 MB 1.333 MHz Shared dual channel [2x2.048]
To:
DDR3 SDRAM 6.144 MB 1.333 MHz Dual Channel [1x2.048 + 1x4.096]
Graphics
From:
NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 550M 1GB graphics with Optimus
To:
NVIDIA ® GeForce ® GT 555m 3GB
I don´t know if the NVIDIA upgrade really worth it (I think everything else yes), but it wasn´t expensive.THX to all.

Nice congig ! hope you'll enjouy it...

I don't think that there is actually much difference between a GT550 and a 555. The 555 has more shaders (144) and uses a 192bit bus vs 96/128bits for the 550, but is clocked slower. But to make any difference, there should be enough graphic memory bandwith. If they build it with DDR5, then the 555 might perform a bit better at higher resolutions.

Anyway, this GPU should be more than sufficient for most games, although Metro 2033 might only run with medium details.