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"Laptops...."

hey guys, hows it goin?
im buying myself a laptop for christmas and i was wonderin if they are any good for playin games on? games from age of empires to unreal tournament etc. ive heard that they can sometimes be problematic with games and i was just wonderin if any of ye guys had one (or knew about them for games).
any help greatly appreciated.
Amos.
PS. the specs are... (ish) 2.4gHz, 256ram, 30gb hard drive, 32mb graphics (shared) etc. cheers again!

Best acronym I ever saw was YCHJCYFPFTRL printed above a bar. I asked what it stood for, and the barmaid read out "Your curiosity has just cost you fifty pence for the royal lifeboat - that's 50p please".

:-D

And in case anyone was wondering, TFT is Thin Film Transistor.

oops i do mean that, you are correct, oh well so much for my knowledge muscle :(.

c.b.

AMD_MAN wrote:
> CRT (cathode raid tube) :), just showing off my knowledge muscles
> :).
>
> c.b.


Er, you mean cathode RAY tube!

A 650Mhz laptop is still acceptably speedy though. I wouldn't mind one :O[

Nah trust me you dont want a laptop for games. When I got mine (650mhz, 128sdram, 10gb, 8mb graphics) 2 years ago, everything was splendid. I could do what I wanted. Over the moon happy.

After 6 months I was pretty pizzed off. Clock speed suddenly shot through into 1ghz+, and virtually all game were requiring decent 3d cards. Being the lappy it is, I couldnt upgrade, coz generally you cant and if you can its more expensive.

The thing is, computer hardware gets better so quickly. I wasted £1600 on something that lasted basically 6months before i needed something better, and better things were avaliable.

Now I use a desktop system which Im super happy with. Its gone through several cheap easy upgrades as times gone on, and it cost just a third of the price.

J

I find programming quite therapeutic. I really have to clear my mind, think analytically, and learn to see things in a fundamental way. It makes me patient and methodical, which is against my nature. It's all very Zen. I used to program quite a lot on my Sinclair Spectrum when I was a kid; and I've picked up the habit again recently, using C++. It's very calming.

Programming bores me, could'nt do it for a job, got a small attention span see, anyway im bored with this now............

AMD_MAN wrote:
> CRT (cathode raid tube) :), just showing off my knowledge muscles
> :).
>
> c.b.


If you want to REALLY flex them, you can do my OO coursework or write me some snazzy programs in Ruby in the next hour and a quarter.

CRT (cathode raid tube) :), just showing off my knowledge muscles :).

c.b.