am looking to purchase a new laptop for college, I'm hoping to run FSX smoothly on it. My budget is anything up to about $800 so i'm not looking to run FSX at 40fps or anything. But if I could run at 20 fps while on the ground i'll be happy. I have narrowed it down to two different options but I'd be more than happy to accept any more suggestions. Acer Aspire AS7750G-6662 Notebook Intel Core i5 2430M(2.40GHz) 17.3" 4GB Memory DDR3 1066 640GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi AMD Radeon HD 6650M ($649)or HP dv6tse 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i5-2430M Processor (2.4 GHz, 3MB L3 Cache) Turbo Boost to 3.0 GHz 2GB AMD Radeon™ HD 7690M GDDR5 Discrete Graphics™ [HDMI, VGA] 8GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm) ($849)My apologies for the wierd font I just copied and paste it from their respective websites

Edited February 12, 201214 yr by rsfjustin

HP dv6tse 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i5-2430M Processor (2.4 GHz, 3MB L3 Cache) Turbo Boost to 3.0 GHz2GB AMD Radeon™ HD 7690M GDDR5 Discrete Graphics™ [HDMI, VGA]8GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm) ($849)

That one is the best choice.BUT, if you are willing to wait, I'd go for one of the Ivy Bridge laptops paired with a Kepler GPU onboard. This will run cooler and faster than current Sandybridge laptops.

Agreed. For a laptop I would most definitely wait for Ivy Bridge.