Will this work?

Hello. I've been looking around for a new laptop of some sort to run smaller games like League, Civ 5, and things of the sort. 4 years ago, when I THOUGHT I knew what I was doing, I purchased the sorriest piece of junk. So, for the redemption, here I am. Can anybody leave a suggestion of an example and How it will square up for Sony Vegas, Photoshop, league, Civ 5 (and similar games but nothing like Fallout or Skyrim)

Also, any tips for keeping a powerful laptop at top-line condition?

Not sure... check out some reviews and see how it performs..

Like this one: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-GeForce-GTX-960M-Review.137893.0.html

What is "it"?

The GPU in your laptop.

I'm talking about a whole new laptop

I understand.

The cpu really doesn't matter too much for gaming, which is why I dropped the link above. As far as PS performance etc, I'm also not sure off the top of my head. I would look for reviews on the laptop and see if they happened to benchmark the apical ions you are looking. When I am not mobile, I will look it up and post back.

Oh okay. Now I feel like an ungrateful idiot, but I do appreciate your cooperation!

Most important thing for PS is having a lot of memory and a stout video chipset that is compatible with PS's abiltiy to off-load a lot of tasks to the GPU.