I am going to be purchasing a laptop for gaming and college.  what would be the best for those two?  Keeping in mind that i am not a millionaire, having a 1,000$ budget.

Unfortunately when it comes to purchasing a gaming laptop, you wont be able to get anything very good for 1,000 max. Most decent ones come in around 1,400 range and actually good ones at 2,000. But for 1,000 an MSI laptop or ASUS RoG might do. Just go onto amazon and search in "gaming laptop", limit your price to 1,000 higher and choose other settings you feel would be good. Personally for me I wouldn't settle for anything less than a 17.3" gaming laptop with 32 GB of RAM running the Nvidia Geforce GTX 980M, which is usually good for gaming PCs, but unfortunately again that is in the 2,000+ range. Just search up "gaming laptop" on Amazon and you should be fine. A very noteworthy site however I feel I should let you know of is a handy site, http://www.game-debate.com/ that lets you search for pretty much all games on PC and see if pretty much any PC can run it. It is way more useful than that can you run it one, it is more detailed. Hope this helps!

Edited May 14, 201510 yr by 1supermiguel

1supermiguel is right, i have a ~$2,600 laptop (Dell Studio 1747 $3000 in 2010 at purchase) and it still runs GTA IV just fine so you cannot find a gaming laptop under $1000. As he said a MSI laptop would be good, it would be best because they offer upgrade ability for future upgrades and they are packed with power around $3000 that can game GTA V no problem as I am looking for a new laptop.