If you are patient and can wait for the holidays, I remember Madcatz doing an insane buy 2 Madcatz TE sticks for $150 total. As long as you have a friend to join your cause, then it can drop down a new stick for $75 for both of you.
If you have about $1200 to spend, the best gaming laptop for the price and performance is Sager/Clevo.
Not only do they have a user friendly design where you can pop open the bottom easily to swap/clean parts like a desktop. But you can even make upgrades down the road to a faster CPU or GPU...
I got the perfect choice in that price range: Gateway 7811-fx.
This computer is about 3 years old but came fully loaded with a good 1080p screen and graphics card. By no means is it light as it is a 17in laptop that weighs roughly 10 lbs. Basically, it will still be on par or outperform any...