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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!

amos wrote:
> 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!


Forget playing games on it. Even laptop screens present a major barrier to gaming, moving images will blur more than a CRT (normal monitor).

£500 will get you an Athlon XP1800 + Radeon 8500 with a 17" monitor.

Also, does your dad have any more 2.4Ghz Sony laptops he's "finished with"?

amos wrote:
> im getting either an optical mouse or a wireless one for it and it has
> a keyboard. the monitor is 15", not far off 17" so...
>
> and whats a shuttle? never heard of it before.

Laptop keyboards are nasty, and the point of a 17" monitor is you get a nice high resolution - laptops never do more than 1280x960.

And shuttles, well, aaaiiii :D

little box PC.
http://sp2.reserve.co.uk/reviews/info.php?code=GG2682
looks cute :)

im getting either an optical mouse or a wireless one for it and it has a keyboard. the monitor is 15", not far off 17" so...

and whats a shuttle? never heard of it before.

I'd spend £150 on an XP2400, £400 on a Shuttle, save £300 for a GeForce FX, then blow the rest on a usable laptop. Gaming on a laptop is just hideous by definition. You can't play them properly without a keyboard, mouse and 17" monitor - so what's the point of the laptop? Might as well just get a shuttle...

A nice 2ghz lappy would do me nicely.

well the prices are in euro so its actually only about st£1600. but still kick *** enough! (damn this censorship!) still worried about the games side of it....
Amos.
PS. i am a poor student but im gettin it on hire purchase. not much to pay right now but ill be paying for it for the next two years. :(

If I had £2000 quid to spend I'd buy a second-hand laptop and install Linux on it and spend the rest on a kick-ass desktop system. Sadly I don't have £2000 to spend, so I'm just going to have to be patient and inherit my dad's Sony Vaio.

Broke studen buying a £2,000 laptop? :)
get an iMac.

thats the kind of card im thinkin of gettin, heres a link
http://shop.online.ie/shop/compustore/106575.html
but the 'shared' thing will get me again, yea?

Radeon make a nice Lappy card. The 9500 I think. Don't know much it will cost though.

As for battery life.. not long!