Hello,I'm looking for a new laptop that will be used as our main household computer. It's just me and my wife. I have my desktop for FS so we will be using this email, MS Office, ITunes (we will be storing the music files on a NASDrive) and Internet. Sounds simple but we would also like to be able to use it for gaming while we travel. I doubt we will by playing Crysis on the thing, probably just mutplayer games and strategy games. Nonetheless, I'd like it to run CitiesXL properly when that comes out. I'm sure I will try to load FSX on it at some point but that won't be the main function for this rig. I like the Asus G71G http://www.asusrog.com/G71G-Q2.html but it seems like it is probably too big to travel with. I'm really looking for something with similar power but smaller - maybe with a 15" screen . People have told me that I need to look at Lenovo if that is what I am looking for.I know I need discrete graphics, I'd like a 7200RPM drive and a pile of RAM but other than that, I don't know what else to look for. I am used to picking all of my components separately when I buy desktops so I am naturally skeptical about anything that is pre-assembled. With laptops, there is now way around it.Does anyone have any suggestions? I'd like to keep it under $1,300.

That one you list looks nice.Toshiba makes some good stuff as well... I've heard good things about this onehttp://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/pdet.to?poid=443839However the CPU should be good for office stuff and light gaming, but probably not for FSX (cpu 2.0GHz)Here's a smaller one mainly for office/internet usehttp://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/cdetland.to?poid=446406Also for the Lenovo line look at the Y650http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/control...enu-id=products

Thanks for the info. I actually picked one up a couple days ago. I went with an Asus G51. It also has the 2.0GHz but the price was right. The Lenovo products seemed to be a bit more expensive. I was looking at a Toshiba that had a faster CPU but a 512MB graphics card.