Advice for buying a new gaming laptop?

Hello and thanks for considering to reply to my question.

First let me say that i'm not an avid gamer, i play for about 20 hours a week max and I'm not very skillful, but the thing that annoys me to the point of insanity is when my screen freezes or my laptop crashes.

I'm going off to college next year and will be staying at dorms for the first two years (probably) so i need a portable rig, i know that building my own desktop would be much cheaper and better compared to what i can get on a laptop. I'm looking for a laptop that looks good, that isn't over 5 kg (11 lbs) , has a RAM of or above 16 gigs and has a killer graphics card. I have a budget of 3000 dollars and keep in mind that I will use the laptop for all sorts of multimedia purposes. I don't know a lot of brands other than alienware or asus rog. I need a brand that i can trust, that won't fail me after a year (cause 3k is a lot of money).

I hope you can help and i would appreciate personal experience responses rather that just spewing out specs i can easily find online.

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Will this laptop play World Of Warcraft?

How well will this laptop play World Of Warcraft?

Lenovo B570 15.6" Laptop, i3-2350M, 2.30GHz,6GB Memory,500GB Hard Drive, WebCam, HDMI, Intel HD3000, Windows7 Home premium

This is the games requirements below link.

https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/world-of-warcraft-system-requirements

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How to I go from VGA on my laptop to HDMI on my tv?

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A few months ago I purchased a Lenovo Y410 and it has been working great, despite the lackluster Win 8 OS. To protect and preserve it I had installed Tune-up Utilities, Bitdefender antivirus, Malwarebytes and recently Comodo Firewall. The previous three had functioned with no issue. However just a few hours ago I installed the Comodo as I realized I had no firewall and wanted to block maleware and the like, having had the highest remarks on the sites I viewed I went with Comodo.(I went to the official site and opted to install the Prividog app to block popups)

Following the install I had to restart, and that is when the trouble began. First of all I kept getting the same messages from Comodo about processes doing things, and when I say the same, I mean the same exact program doing the same exact thing. So I wanted to troubleshoot and went to my browser, turns out my keyboard was not working, none of the keys would respond. I figured a reboot would help, but it did not… Now when I turn on the computer I heard a sound that is like the noise you hear when you hook up your headphones to your computer. Also the monitor will not come on, the lights show the computer is operational, but the monitor will not kick on. If anyone has any insight that would be awesome as I really like that machine and would hate to have to go back to this older one… Not to mention the money that would be wasted.

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I keep losing internet conection every 10-15 min and it says limited so i run troubleshooter and it fixes it and says default gateway not available its annoying having this happen constantly i have the latest drivers instaled fixed power managment settings to not turn the wireless adapter off and tried a few other things, i'm running win 8 64 bit on a lenovo Z580 laptop anyone any idea of what could be causing this?

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Gaming laptop for under 1000$?

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Added (1). I know how to build a computer (desktop) I built one before its just time that i don't have. I'm going to japan to study there and I need a good gaming laptop to keep me busy for 6 mouths and help me with homework

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