Sadly. I heard from my friends that its possible but extremely hard. *sigh* looks like I'm going to have to return to console gaming.
Pretty much, yeah. It's not really worth it to invest that in a laptop, because even if you put money into getting a good graphics card in it, you may still be limited by battery power, processor, etc--and then things will inevitably break, and laptops are costly to fix. Save your money and put it towards building a gaming computer if you're really dedicated.
I'm not, I'm just going to get a PS3 and stick with it. So long PC master race, I will be able to still run TF2 and Half Life 2 though.
Saving up for a Gaming PC doesn't take long, just literally save every penny you get, do jobs for people, neighbours etc. Sell your stuff at a garage sale. It's not even been one month since I started saving and I already have 350.