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If you have your heart set on a 14" laptop you may want to check out the Lenovo Y470, Core i5 w/ a 7690 1 gb vid card

I would also wait until we see what kind of price/performance AMD's Trinity comes in at. It's CPU power will be good enough for anything you do (yes i know its not faster than ivy bridge, but not a dealbreaker), but its IGP is going to be at least 2x as fast as intels 4000HD, and if you get one...

This one would let you max skyrim at 720p http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220796 not too shabby at $680, and if memory serves this laptop should support 2 hard drives, so you could upgrade w/ a SSD later and keep the 500 as a storage drive.

you may want to look at the alienware refurbished laptops as well, i picked up an M17xr3 with a 1080p scree, i7 2630, 4 gigs ddr3 1600, and a 2gig AMD 6990 for $997 with a 25% off coupon

Klosteral has a point about the $600 barrier real hard to find anything under it, best i can think of is a Asus G51VX-RX05 which would come with a core 2 duo at 2.0 but a 1gig 260gtx video card, but any gaming laptop with anything under an i7 and a 5850 really isnt future proof, and you won't...

I just picked up a computer for the same thing, and what i did was wait for there to be a dell outlet coupon. For $367 i got Inspiron 15 w/ hmdi port AMD 2.1 ghz dual core 3 gigs ddr3 320 gig HD 5200 rpm 1 gig 5650 video card plays dragon age origins, starcraft 2, and WOW all medium to high...