Looking for gaming machine advise ASAP!

1_What is your budget? $1000-$1600

2_What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 15-17''

3_What screen resolution do you want? At least 1440x900 or w/e

4_Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? somewhat

5_How much battery life do you need? Not my concern as I would use it with AC hooked up always

6_Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)? I'm a gamer! I play many many games,

WoW regulary, future, Diablo3, starcraft2,COD:Modern warfare2, etc -Medium~High. I look at benchmark whether it's gtx260m vs gtx130m.

7_What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo / Video editing, surfing the web, playing music, watching movies, Etc.) surfing the web, chatting, music, multitasking, office software

8_How much storage (H.D.D Capacity) do you need? at least 250gb with 7200rpm would be fine, don't really care about storage overall

9_If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post the links to them.

http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np866 [...] -2564.html
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspag [...] 8092150740
http://www.gateway.com/systems/product/529668240.php
www.newegg.com, www.dell.com

10_How long do you want to keep your laptop? 4-6 years

11_If you would like to mention some other things about purchasing your ideal laptop, post them.

I need some build quality information also. I don't overclock nor know how to but I still care about heat problem.

12_Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.
Anything is fine but I refuse to use compaq. I heard some good words on Sager NP, gateway FX series, Asus G51/71x, etc

13_What country do you live in? USA

I looked somewhere and saw that np8662 performs less than gateway p-7807u in some games
so i'm deciding between those two with gtx 260m and 9800 gts respectively