I bought an ASUS laptop 2 years ago. The only games I've had trouble running well were Crysis 2 and The Witcher 2 but they were still playable. I'm probably going to build one within the next year, as it's really not expensive at all to build a capable rig these days. That's likely to continue as the new consoles didn't leap frog the widely available specs like they have in the past, and developers are unlikely to go too far beyond that.