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What's the point of having a console if you have a Laptop PC?
Surely the future is in Laptops, especially if they become essential school kit.
The only argument I can see against them is the three weeks it takes to rebuild the system after installing a joystick.
Surely the future is in Laptops, especially if they become essential school kit.
The only argument I can see against them is the three weeks it takes to rebuild the system after installing a joystick.
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FantasyMeister wrote:
> Show me a laptop for under £200 that can do what a
> PS2/XBox/Gamecube can do and I'll buy it.
That's what I would have said, had the wise one not already said it.
> Show me a laptop for under £200 that can do what a
> PS2/XBox/Gamecube can do and I'll buy it.
That's what I would have said, had the wise one not already said it.
Still annoying though :P
Personally I just plug in a mouse to get around it. Using the finger-pad reminds me of the 'dead-skin' keyboard of a ZX Spectrum.
Personally I just plug in a mouse to get around it. Using the finger-pad reminds me of the 'dead-skin' keyboard of a ZX Spectrum.
laptops annoy me with the toch pad
Show me a laptop for under £200 that can do what a PS2/XBox/Gamecube can do and I'll buy it.
pb wrote:
> er-no wrote:
> Yeah its been a rollarcoaster
> ten years for Apple since the VX but their computers and EVERYTHING
> they touch is just expensive
>
> agree
>
> ;-)
Don't change what I type. :( Mac rule.
> er-no wrote:
> Yeah its been a rollarcoaster
> ten years for Apple since the VX but their computers and EVERYTHING
> they touch is just expensive
>
> agree
>
> ;-)
Don't change what I type. :( Mac rule.
...amd don't call me Shirley...
Tony wrote:
> Surely Laptops will make Consoles obsolete
Anyone who uses a laptop for gaming needs a CT scan.
> Surely Laptops will make Consoles obsolete
Anyone who uses a laptop for gaming needs a CT scan.
Nah
Your question was "What can stop laptops superceding consoles?"
Well as long as I've got a 28" TV in my house, it'll be practical for Nintendo et al to make games that I can play on it :O) Laptops just don't have the same usability - they will always be very expensive, their battery lifes will always be short (unless you plug it into a wall socket, negating its portability), and they will always lose out on controllability (anyone for Quake on a touchpad, or Mario on a keyboard?). Once you start plugging in stuff and modding the laptop so it becomes a gaming machine, it stops being, well, a laptop :O(((
Having said that, I want a laptop so much it burrrrrrrrrrrrnnnss (but not for games, I do a fair amount of work with networks and a laptop is the ultimate diagnostic tool).
Your question was "What can stop laptops superceding consoles?"
Well as long as I've got a 28" TV in my house, it'll be practical for Nintendo et al to make games that I can play on it :O) Laptops just don't have the same usability - they will always be very expensive, their battery lifes will always be short (unless you plug it into a wall socket, negating its portability), and they will always lose out on controllability (anyone for Quake on a touchpad, or Mario on a keyboard?). Once you start plugging in stuff and modding the laptop so it becomes a gaming machine, it stops being, well, a laptop :O(((
Having said that, I want a laptop so much it burrrrrrrrrrrrnnnss (but not for games, I do a fair amount of work with networks and a laptop is the ultimate diagnostic tool).
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