Laptop for gaming?

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mcconnell14

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Hi. I'm going away to school in a couple months and i'm going to be purchasing a laptop. I'm going to a Flight School College to train and become a pilot with a major airline someday. I want a Laptop that will be able to play a very hi performance game. aswell as be good for school (so it needs to be a top, I know there not the best. for gaming.)

Not sure if anyone is Familiar with the PC game " Microsoft Flight Simluater X - i have the Gold Edition (deluxe and Acceleration expansion packs) But this is One of the most advanced computer games on the market. (if your not familiar please dont loook at the Minumun req. for the game cuz those SUCK..very basic game on that system)

I'm currently playing it at home on this system :
(desktop not laptop)
Windows Vista basic
manufacturer : acer
model: Aspire M1200
AMD Athlon processor LE- 1640 2.70 GHZ
1.00 GB ram ..32 bit.
AtI radeon 2100
I can only play this game on all the settings and graphics set to "Very low" -In other words It's almost impossible to land at JFK airport in new york city because the game simply overloads my system (game has alot to load alot on landing, ai traffic, more textures, the airport, all the buildings, not to mention your doing alot with the plane itselft at this point to get ready for landing) and when it does work alright its like landing in the Sarah dessert cuz i have the settings so low. (no buildings, or other traffic- just a simple airport facility with a few runways)
i wanna be able to land at JFK with settings up fairly hi (80-100 percent full) and in a severe thunderstorm. That gives your guys a image of what i might need.
my question is

1) What laptops brands make fairly hi performance computers that are meant for gaming (i'am afriad to buy something like a HP cuz i'm think i would fry the crap outta it? am i wrong?) on flight sim you often have the game running for sometimes over 12 hours on long flight from New-York to London

2) im guestimating that my budjet would be about $1500 CANADIAN bucks)

3) is $1500 realistically enough to spend? or if i could spend 1800 or 2 gs would it be "wise to" or is about $1500 give me a good hi perfomance machine

thanks..and any help would be much appreciated...and sorry but i just kinda google and your site came up first lol...If anyone knows of a better site geared towards my question that would be great aswell
I have posted on the forums realated to flight sim but i get about 1 respone a day there --
 
I wouldn't call it the most advanced game out there. :P

I have limited experience but my friend bought a Alienware M15x and he loves it.

Personally I stay away from labtops for the sole reason that I can't make my own and they ALL charge so much but that is true for any gaming labtop.



My personal opinion...is this though. Buy a normal labtop for school 300-500 bucks.

Upgrade your PC.

$40 Buy 2x2GB sticks of DDR2 800 memory
$120 9800GT GPU/ 4850 GPU
$60 550w Corsair PSU (unless your PSU has the juice to run them)


You save a bunch of money and can max out flight simulator at home. The price your gonna pay I honestly think you will be disappointed with labtops for gaming. My buddy spent $2400 on his.

Your biggest issue is your GPU is not powerful enough and you don't have enough ram to run a memory hungry Vista OS + the game this is your 2 biggest issues with lag.
 
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Twist86 said:
I wouldn't call it the most advanced game out there. :P

I have limited experience but my friend bought a Alienware M15x and he loves it.

Personally I stay away from labtops for the sole reason that I can't make my own and they ALL charge so much but that is true for any gaming labtop.



My personal opinion...is this though. Buy a normal labtop for school 300-500 bucks.

Upgrade your PC.

$40 Buy 2x2GB sticks of DDR2 800 memory
$120 9800GT GPU/ 4850 GPU
$60 550w Corsair PSU (unless your PSU has the juice to run them)


You save a bunch of money and can max out flight simulator at home. The price your gonna pay I honestly think you will be disappointed with labtops for gaming. My buddy spent $2400 on his.

Your biggest issue is your GPU is not powerful enough and you don't have enough ram to run a memory hungry Vista OS + the game this is your 2 biggest issues with lag.
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Agreed. The thought of a laptop for gaming is better than the reality of one for gaming.
 
Yeah, Laptops are good for gaming but get really laggy. I downloaded Cod4 once, it was so laggy it was ridculious. So personally I think laptops aren't for gaming.
 
Hdk20 said:
Yeah, Laptops are good for gaming but get really laggy. I downloaded Cod4 once, it was so laggy it was ridculious. So personally I think laptops aren't for gaming.
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Then how was it good for gaming? He gets that result all already :P
 
I had a Dell XPS M1730. Bought it in Sept of 08. I wished at that time, I bought myself a Desktop instead of a Laptop. Would have saved myself $2500.
 
alright im bringing my thread back to life!

i went to the store today and talked to a lady who seemed to know what she was talking about.


http://www.staples.ca/ENG/Catalog/cat_sku.asp?CatIds=73,74,75,4599&webid=763965&affixedcode=WW

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ca/en/ho/WF06b/321957-321957-3329744-64354-64354-3756677-3810247.html

http://www.staples.ca/ENG/Catalog/cat_sku.asp?CatIds=73,74,75,4596&webid=764354&affixedcode=WW

which one would be the best option?
ok now i have a few questions

1) the lady said that Laptops only come up to 512 MB of video MEmory -is this right or is she wrong? sounded wrong to me..im not geek tho

2) Graphpics card : ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 Graphics with 512MB dedicated graphic memory OR NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT - which card is better and why?

3) How big of a difference is having say a 2.0 GHZ than a 2.4 GHZ? ?
will 5400RPM be enough? is 7200RPM that much better?

4) will any of these actually ful-fill my needs? or do they sound better than they actually run with games.?

http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1730?c=ca&l=en&s=dhs&cs=cadhs1 (on the left)

http://www.thesource.ca/estore/prod...gory=laptop_bundles&catalog=Online&tab=2#more

the dell XPS might be outta range for money ..the last 2 are other i was looking at
 
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anyone?

How much difference in GHz are there..most in my price range are 2.0-2.4 GHz

how much difference is there from 2.0 to say one with 2.13 or 2.20?

and im leaning toward the Acer laptop from The source...how will that do? im sure it will do me pretty good.

I'll wait.... when do you guys expect quad cores to come down in price? i saw a HP one for $2199 CDN. cuz ill probably wait until they become the norm before buying a really expensive computer or laptop. is that a good idea?

and whats the difference in the Centrino 2duo core and the Intel Core 2duo? whats better for gaming performance?

Thanks, i need the help!
 
mcconnell14 said:
1) the lady said that Laptops only come up to 512 MB of video MEmory -is this right or is she wrong? sounded wrong to me..im not geek tho

2) Graphpics card : ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 Graphics with 512MB dedicated graphic memory OR NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT - which card is better and why?

3) How big of a difference is having say a 2.0 GHZ than a 2.4 GHZ? ?
will 5400RPM be enough? is 7200RPM that much better?

4) will any of these actually ful-fill my needs? or do they sound better than they actually run with games.?
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1) Wrong, Sager and Rock do laptops with 1GB of video memory;
2) I'd say the 9600M GT simply because it's a generation newer;
3) 2.4GHz might be noticeable in some games (particularly newer ones) and a 7200rpm hard drive allows for faster HDD accessing;
 
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