price limit is 1k

Id like a DVD player, CD burner not nessesary

Ethernet port, wifi not nessesary

decent battery life,

Im not afraid of a heavy laptop,

A decent size screen would be nice

Its maily for school work, Word Processing, some Visual C++ compiling

but I would like it to run some games, I dont need it to run anything like doom 3 but things like Rise of Nations, Sim golf, Shadowbane, Icewind Dale II, Baulders Gate II.


The big shooters Ill save for my main desktop rig.