My wife needs a laptop for work. Her boss will pay for it, and it'll be be mostly used for MS Office, Outlook, planning/scheduling, and maybe the odd multimedia presentation. It will be her work/home computer so she'll want a docking station at work and probably one at home as well.
Her broad requirements are: lightweight, fast, and she seems to prefer a screen size of somewhere between 13.5 and 15 inches.
*My requirement is that it can handle 720/1080p movies, includes the fastest wireless capability (is that wireless N?) and will play Civilization 5 flawlessly when it comes out.
My problem is that I've never owned a laptop or even really looked at them so I'm not even sure what companies to look at and which ones to avoid. Also my desktop computer is 5 years old now so I just don't know what new technology is out there and what's just a gimmick.
Price limit, probably somewhere around $1500, but like I said, she'll want at least 1 docking station and probably a nice protective laptop bag in that total as well.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks guys!