I bought an Aspire V3 and also a Lenovo g505s last year to mainly play Civ. They were the best gaming laptops under $500/$600 dollars. Both of them lasted only a few months because they kept overheating. It seems to be a risk.
I would suggest putting $600 into building his own desktop. I did this for the first time and its the best decision I made. It's not too difficult (I knew nothing of computers before the project) and the performance is so much better than a laptops.
There are some pretty decent cooling pads one can get fairly cheap to prevent overheating. It's a very common issue for laptops since they obviously can't fit enough cooling systems on their own.
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