There's actually a pretty good number of laptops that will play BF3 well now. What other action items do you need?1 - Screen: Okay with 1366x768 or are you looking for 1920x10802 - Hard drive: you need SSD or spinning (space)? You can always upgrade this later yourself as well.3 - Keyboard - do you need backlit?4 - Battery - you need it to go all day when not fragging, or will this be plugged in all the time?5 - Weight/size - You gonna do some productivity with it as well and carry it around, or just lock n load on your desk?6 - Screen type: Matte or Glossy, you ever work or use it outside?7 - DVD Plyr - You need bluray support, or don't need one at all (e.g. for ultrabook)Fortunately there's a lot of good options there. The most important item of course is $. Let me know your budget.