Buying a laptop and want to play 3D games too?

Laptops are always something to research well into before you buy one. What do you want it to do, will it be used for work mainly or gaming, or a mix of both? You cannot expect a laptop designed for work related usage to play all modern PC games thrown at it. Today we are even seeing games that requires Pixel Shader v3.0 to even run like Tom Clancys Splinter Cell - Double Agent When I was looking to buy a laptop back in 2006 I wanted to use it for work designing databasedriven websites, heavy graphic usage and also be able to play modern 3D games. So I bought a laptop I saw was on sale which had a standard integrated intel graphic card that is fine for work and a dedicated Nvidia Go 6600 256MB card which is fine for gaming.