Why is my laptop not suitable for gaming?

If you need more than about 35fps for sc2 you're simply bad.

worse graphics with low fps..

don't want to be looking at a potato lol..

Dunno, I could play sc2 at 30~ fps with my old laptop and the gfx on medium/scaling off etc. You want a cheap desktop preferably to get the gaming going. More comfy too.

Well with a good pc you need a good chair, got the latter - need the former though.

Get a job, start saving. Either that or exploits the parents/get a sugar daddy.

Or get that geek you were on about to be your bf. Maybe he has spare parts.

Have a few part-time jobs, but most of that goes to exam entries, books etc.

Prefer to do it off my own back, rather than ask for help for non-essentials.

Sugar daddy = pimp?

Are you being literal here or implicit?

"250 fps".
Please do your research...

pimp can work too, but not what I was suggesting. And no, I was being literal. If he's anything like me he has enough spare parts for 2-3 decent pc's in the cupboard.

Isn't 125fps the sweet spot that most people use, not that it matters :P

Right I see thanks.

Oh right, thanks - will see though. This may be a silly question but is it possible to build a laptop, I know most people build their own pc..

60fps is what you want. There are very few reasonably priced monitors out there that can even support anything above 60Hz so setting it as a target is fairly pointless.
You can't custom build laptops due to the fact that cramming all those components into a tiny space takes a lot of work, and there's no standardisation for it (unlike desktops).

What sorta budget are you looking at?

250FPS? What games do you play? 60fps playing BF4 is pretty smooth already, and am pretty sure- as mentioned before- a mid-range laptop would not have a high enough refresh rate to cope with 250fps.

Judging from your laptop specs:

processor, multi core yes, but the clock speed is pretty low; games prefer higher clock speeds over number of cores. You can consider overclocking but keep in mind of system cooling and even the possibility if your CPU can overclock or not. RAM/Memory plays no role in gaming performance- to a point- although 8GB of RAM is more than enough. You're graphics card is integrated, meaning it is most likely soldered onto your motherboard and comes nowhere close to a DEDICATED graphics card.

I suggest you buy a gaming desktop if you are that keen on performance, maybe a sli/crossfire GPUs.

With my current laptop I know there is no chance.

RAM is good. And I understand about the melding.

£700, not much I know. Its hard because I don't knwo whether to save for a great one or buy a decent one now.