Is the Toshiba Satellite laptop good for gaming?

Game performance depends a lot on the GPU, and it depends significantly more on the GPU than any other performance component. The Toshiba Satellite P875-S7102 comes with integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics, and not a decent dedicated GPU, so you aren't going to get particularly spectacular game performance.

One area where the laptop does well, though, is in the display. The laptop's 17.3" 1920x1080 display lets you fit a lot onscreen, and also does pretty well as far as image quality goes. This is contrary to a lot of laptop displays (such as 15.6" 1366x768 and 17.3" 1600x900), which make things onscreen large and tend to be low-grade LCD panels with very poor image quality due to low contrast. This is an area you want to pay attention to in alternatives laptops.

If you don't mind stepping down to 15.6" (with the same 1920x1080 resolution as the 17.3" display), then you can get a significantly better GPU with the Y500.

**Lenovo IdeaPad Y500** (i7-3630QM, NVIDIA GT 650M, 15.6" 1920x1080 [glossy] display) - **$809 + tax**

- Sign up and sign in here: http://shoplenovo.i2.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/... (Barnes and Noble Gold discount page)

- http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/ba... (1TB + DVD, single GT 650M, $804 + tax)

- http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/ba... (1TB + 16G SSD + DVD, single GT 650M, $839 + tax)

- Click the activate coupon button in the cart.

- Avoid any models that come with the 1366x768 display and not the 1920x1080 display.

Dropping down the CPU to one that might be worse for heavy video editing, and plus $100 extra, gets you the SLI version that has two GT 650M GPUs working together. Considerably faster game performance in a lot of cases, but might not be as good for intensive video editing.

**Lenovo IdeaPad Y500** (NVIDIA GT 650M x2 / **SLI**, 15.6" 1920x1080 [glossy] display) - **$899**

- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...

- http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Lenovo+-+IdeaPad+15.6%...

- This is for if you really want to maximize your game performance and don't need a DVD drive.

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This is 17.3" with a 1920x1080 display and the same type of GPU as the Y500, but its i5-3230M CPU might not be as good or heavy video editing, and it costs $899 instead of $799.

**Dell Inspiron 17R Special Edition** (NVIDIA GT 650M, 17.3" 1920x1080 display) - **$899 + tax**

- http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx...

- Avoid any models that come with the 1600x900 display and not the 1920x1080 display.

EDIT: This one is cheaper and has the faster CPU which will be better for heavy video editing, the same GT 650M GPU, and the same 1920x1080 display: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Dell+-+Inspiron+17.3%2...

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Excellent laptop, I'm using one now. However I'm trying to downgrade to windows 7. But unable to find drivers for the wifi card that will work with windows 7