Notebooks

[Toca 2]

Is a laptop with 1.6 ghz, 1gb ram, a 100gb hard drive and 256mb ram good enough for gaming?

[DABhand]

No


At least 2.4ghz+ CPU
1GB Ram
And a decent onboard GPU that can do pixel shading etc.

[Joe Forster/STA]

It's mostly the inferior (integrated) video card that causes laptops to not meet the system requirements of many-many (modern) games.

[Toca 2]

It has a intel cenrino mobile technology with intel pentium M processor 730

[Toca 2]

AMD Turion64 X2™ Dual
Core Processor TL-50
nVidia GeForce 6100 Graphics • 8X DVD+/-R/RW & CD Burner • Wireless LAN802.11b/g • 103 key full size
keyboard with numeric keypad • 4 in 1 Card Reader • Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition • 56K Modem,
IEEE1394, USB2.0, Gigabit LAN

how about that for gaming?

[DABhand]

Aye thats a contendor lol

[Toca 2]

So you reckon it will play all the new games easily?

[DABhand]

Not ALL but pretty much most of them. Some games out there need at least a 6600 GPU, but there is only a few of them.

[Toca 2]

Is this good for gaming???????????????????????


ProcessorIntel Core Duo T5600Processor Speed1.83 Ghz
1gb ram
120hdd
nvidia geforce go 7300 256mb turbo cache

[Joe Forster/STA]

(There's no need to open a new thread!)

The CPU seems to be a bit too slow for today's standards. Also, the "GO" in the video card's name is a bit suspicious - it may be the "el cheapo" version of a Geforce card and may not be compatible with modern games.

[Toca 2]

So do you reckon it will be alright with the modern games for 5 years or so?

I am getting it from acer so the graphics card should be alright.

[DABhand]

Now this is a gaming laptop that will last a LONNNGGGGG time before needing to be changed.


http://global.acer.com/products/notebook/fr5000.htm


But at 1500GBP it is actually a very nice price, with laptops you get what you pay for.

There is a Ferrari 1000 series at 1100GBP which is equally ok.

Also if you know someone who owns a store he can get a 20% discount.

[Toca 2]

Acer Aspire 5634 WLMi

Aspire 5634WLMi
Intel® Core™2 Duo T5600 Processor 1.83GHz
Genuine Windows® XP Media Centre Edition
15.4” WXGA CrystalBrite active colour widescreen
Massive 1GB DDR2 SDRAM
Massive 120GB HDD††
DVD Super-multi dual layer drive
Nvidia GeForce Go 7300 with 256MB TurboCache
Rotational LCD Panel mounted 1.3 megapixel Orbicam
5-in-1 Card reader

Is the one i am thinking of getting?

[Joe Forster/STA]

Have you read my previous post?!

[DABhand]

Ive had a look at some specs for the GO notebook series of GPU's and the 7xxx cards do have Shader Model 3 on them, but they arent as good as the desktop counterparts, but they should do the job but not as well.

[Toca 2]

thanks for the help