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If you are looking for a gaming laptop these would be my general rules:
The most important thing for gaming is the graphics card. So you would want to get a laptop with the best discrete graphics card that you can find.
After that, you will want a decent CPU (mobile i7 would be good) and enough RAM (4-8 gb will be sufficient).
Screen is a double edged sword. It is nice sometimes to have a really high resolution eg 1080P. However, the higher the screen resolution, the more pixels on the screen, and the more power the graphics card needs to render it in games.
Battery life is going to suffer on a gaming laptop - but that's the price of a higher powered system.
WRT your iTunes library, you will want a large hard drive (or external hard drive) to store the music, and some decent speakers. Probably worthwhile to get a set of external speakers for when this is set up in the dorm room.
For gaming, Windows is still better than Mac.
Hope this helps a bit.
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