Hello all, please advise me!

I'm going to the US during August to further my studies in civil engineering. But plan to get it here so that I can keep in touch with my family when I'm in transit etc.

1. Preferred brand - None. But hopefully something with good customer support in M'sia and US.
2. Budget - rm4k
3. Usage - Civil engineering student, don't know what kind of software I'll need to use, but maybe the sifus would know. Also, would like to use it for playing games like crysis 3 once in awhile.
4. Preferred screen size - 14 or 15.6 inch.

Thank you!
ps, I do plan to get an extra monitor at US, so portability is more important than screen size to me.

Edit: interested in the Lenovo y500, but the battery life is a serious concern to me.

This post has been edited by Skinny01010: Jun 25 2013, 12:00 PM

Thank you very much! Will look it up.