Hey all,
I plan to sit in a basemant with about 12 other people playing this game, and I would very much like to play this game on my PC (for graphics) back at home. The only problem is that once I go back to college I will not have my PC, only a Lenovo Thinkpad.
I was wondering if it would be at all possible to play Skyrim on my PC then transfer my save files to my laptop when the weekend is finished so I do not have to start my gameplay over when I come back to uni.
Thanks,
Kevin

Your saves are stored in My Documents/My Games/Skyrim/Saves

Grab the folder or whatever saves you want and move them to the new machine.

Note, for best results, start the game on the other machine until you can make a save, then create a save and exit out of the game. Then use Windows Explorer to move your saves into the Saves folder the game creates. This way you don't run into any permissions issues or other weirdness.

Should be possible. I'm not entirely sure, but I think that Skyrim will automatically sync your save files too/from the Steam Cloud, so that when you go to play on another computer, if you login to the same account, your save files just show up automagically.

If not, then you'll just need to find the save files directory (I can't remember where Oblivion saved them, at the moment, but it was somewhere in your User Profile directory - I think in your "My Documents" directory, there will be a "My Games", folder, under that a "Skyrim" folder (or possibly a Bethesda Software Folder with a Skyrim Folder inside that), and your save files will be in that Skyrim folder. So, just copy that folder to the same location on the new computer, and you should be set.

As for the game itself, Steam has a "Backup" feature which will allow you to quickly and easily backup the game files to a folder, then you can copy them (over a LAN, onto a flash drive, DVD, USB/Firewire HDD, etc) to the other computer and install in just a few minutes.

Some people just copy their "steamapps" folder, or the subdirectory of that folder for the particular game you want to copy (in this case Skyrim). I think the Steam Backup is basically the same thing as copying the steamapps subdirectory for the game you want, the main difference being that it can "split" the game files based on size (e.g. if you want to copy the game to DVD, it can split the game files into sets of no larger than 4.7GB, then you can burn a disc 1, disc 2, etc.)

Steam cloud is a good option, unless the save files are friggin huge or you have a slow connection. If that's the case, good ol flash drive ftw!