Labtop Help

Looking to purchase a new laptop, and i am pretty clueless. Id like something i can play wow in without trouble, and keep the price around 1500$. Any particular brand i should be looking for?

toshiba are generally the best brand but I have a new hp dv2000 in front of me that looks pretty sweet, except the screen is a bit small.

1: If you think a laptop is a mobile gaming, media, or power user platform; basically anything but a replacement for a notepad; you are an idiot. It's better to spend the money on a gaming desktop and get a older IBM think pad with a docking station. This is because of the massive repair costs when such a laptop breaks, and due to the greatly increased likelyhood of it breaking.

2: Higher quality indicates the laptops casing will last longer, deal with impact damage better, and not be as succeptable to being damaged, and generally have fewer warranty and out-of-warranty repairs. This is the opinion of a tech who's taken apart close to 100 laptops (if opening a panel on the bottom counted, multiply that number by 5). The list of quality goes, from highest to lowest.

Apple.
Sony, Acer, Dell.
Toshiba, Fujitsu
IBM, HP, Compaq.
Panasonic, GQ, Sharp

3: Stay away from large LCD's, the big ones fail often and when they do they are 3-4 times as expensive to replace.

4: Any gaming laptop you get can and will fail quickly due to heat.

5: Notebook PC's are shit. Tablets are ok.

6: Get a backpack for your laptop; bags are shit. Your laptop swings around and bangs into things while in a bag. In a backpack, it's in an out of the way position where you won't destroy it.

where do i start...
1: If you think a laptop is a mobile gaming, media, or power user platform; basically anything but a replacement for a notepad; you are an idiot. It's better to spend the money on a gaming desktop and get a older IBM think pad with a docking station.

My laptop is going on 2 years now, and i've used it for just about everything you would use a computer for, programming, gaming, multiple OS's, etc.
Not everybody has a choice of buying a laptop or desktop.

This is because of the massive repair costs when such a laptop breaks, and due to the greatly increased likelyhood of it breaking.
what the fuck is "greatly increased liklyhood[sic] of it breaking"? from what? explain what you are trying to say.
my 2 year old ish laptop has had one repair problem, my keyboard went bad when i spilled mountain dew on it.
cost of repair = $20 and it took me about 2 1/2 minutes to figure out how to put it in there.


...i have a stupid opinion...

yea

3: Stay away from large LCD's, the big ones fail often and when they do they are 3-4 times as expensive to replace.

17"
mine has been ok for 2 years, if it does fail i'll buy a new laptop.

4: Any gaming laptop you get can and will fail quickly due to heat.

any, huh? how do you explain why mine is still working
never had it shut off once due to heat or had any heat-related problems

5: Notebook PC's are shit. Tablets are ok.

i'm convinced...