Help! Anyone know about laptop processors?

[Wooz]

It comes with Windows 7 64. I'm assuming a game like Fallout 3 can use 64 bit tech to its full advantage.

You know, F3 isn't exactly a benchmark for beautiful or well-done graphics.

Also, no, processor speed has -mostly- nothing to do with the quality of your display settings, which are determined by how much RAM your graphics card has. For example, a 7600GTX with 256MB of RAM will perform much worse than a brand new shiny GT240 with 1GB of RAM, with the same processor.

Word to the wise, tho: graphics cards tend to use a lot of power and generate a lot of heat, which could overheat your laptop very easily.

Stick with a mid-range laptop, and get yourself a decent desktop rig for gaming.

 

[iii]

15.4''
Samsung R522 with ATI 4650 DDR3

This one offers you the best "Bang for the buck" at the moment... quite solid quality for a gaming notebook.

 

[Mutoes]

As an unhappy owner of burned acer aspire laptop (that burned month after warranty expired) id like to advice to read some user experiences if there are any heat issues with whatever laptop youre buying. Mainly because couple of my friends that have bought laptops have had their machines dying just after warranty expired.

Not just because of the possibility of burned mobo in year or two but because of the performance hit it might take during gaming, or even when watching hd movies when temps start rising after 20 mins of heavy usage.

 

[Ausdoerrt]

In response to a bunch of posts here...

I myself own a sub-optimal "gaming laptop", it's only about 1,5 years old though, but it's still alive and kicking pretty well.

I have a Vaio AR 17" 1440:900, Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz, 2 GB RAM with NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT (256MB dedicated VRAM). I can play most modern games on minimum or medium settings with little lag. What bottlenecks it though is actually the processor, and especially the RAM (hence all the lag in games). So, I recommend getting either more RAM, or a laptop that's fully compatible with XP so you can downgrade for gaming. While DX10 is nice and all, I have found that running games on medium in XP works out a lot better for me than running on min in Vista and still getting lag. I'm sure Win7 eats up about the same amount of RAM as Vista, as well.

I also recommend getting a laptop with a dedicated GFX card and not integrated one, because many recent games refuse to run on integrated gfx even if the card "technically" has enough vRAM to run it.

Overall, I'm very satisfied with my Vaio thus far, but seeing how the author seems to hate Sony now, maybe that's not an option. One thing I do like about this one is that it's got a fairly powerful fan and enough space for all the hardware, I have never had it overheat even in 30 degree 100 humidity weather, much less shut down due to overheating.

Acer makes good laptops for the price, but if you're getting one of the more powerful ones, a laptop stand with an extra fan is pretty much a must to keep the thing going.

Toshiba is a decent solution for durability, at least until recently (can't tell since I haven't used/seen their products in the last 2 years or so, but they do have a good reputation).

Never get a Dell. It's an overpriced PoS which heats too much and burns just as easily.

 

[Aphyosis]

Toshiba is a decent solution for durability, at least until recently (can't tell since I haven't used/seen their products in the last 2 years or so, but they do have a good reputation).

When i worked in IT we had a corner called the Toshiba graveyard absolutely filled with dead toshiba laptops. Probably 3 of every 4 laptops brought in to us were dead or burned out toshiba notebooks.

that said, i too have never been fond of the 'gaming laptop' thing. but as long as you're aware it's a suboptimal choice that most likely means lots of weight, noise, heat and higher than average failure rates, then go for it.

This ^

 

[King of Creation]

Stick with a mid-range laptop, and get yourself a decent desktop rig for gaming.

Normally I would, but my only option is a laptop right now so I can take it home (or wherever I move to next) after I leave Egypt.

When i worked in IT we had a corner called the Toshiba graveyard absolutely filled with dead toshiba laptops. Probably 3 of every 4 laptops brought in to us were dead or burned out toshiba notebooks

The laptop I had before my Vaio was a Toshiba tablet. Had it while I was at Uni. Looking back, it weighed a TON and wasn't very good. I was caught up with the gimmick of a convertible tablet. Oh, and that one ended up burning out the graphics card after the warranty ran out.

 

[SuAside]

Overall, I'm very satisfied with my Vaio thus far, but seeing how the author seems to hate Sony now, maybe that's not an option. One thing I do like about this one is that it's got a fairly powerful fan and enough space for all the hardware, I have never had it overheat even in 30 degree 100 humidity weather, much less shut down due to overheating.

Vaios have the largest drop out rate in the industry. even worse than HP and Dell. not to mention the unending list of incompabilities of the hardware (and faked hardware) with much software that is currently available. an example would be the basic USB based 'docking station' they sometimes offer. it just fails to render some programs (and i'm talking about basic 2D windows in XP, not some 3D stuff). works on the laptopscreen, plug in the dock, move window to the extra screen and it's all grey. lawlz.

anyhow, the higher priced Thinkpads (Lenovo nowadays) are still the best i've ever handled. but out of the pricerange KoC has set.

 

[Ausdoerrt]

I dunno, I haven't had those kind of problems. True enough though, some of the compatibility is not as great as it could be - not all of my hardware works properly in XP, but in the default Vista everything's just fine, and I never had any software refusing to work, and I've been using a variety of different things.

I'd say it's like heaven and hell compared to my old Dell or other dells I've seen/used.

Don't know anything about the docking station though, but most of Sony PC peripherials are usually crap anyway, and I'd never buy any of that. The built-in HDMI works just fine tho.

 

[King of Creation]

Ended up getting this one, and only spent a bit more than I originally was going to :
http://www.compume.com/index.php?target=products&product_id=32290

Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile technology
Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo T6600 2.2GHz, 2MB L2 Cache
Processor Bus Speed: 800 MHz FSB
Memory: 4GB DDR2
Hard Disk: 640 GB SATA
Hard Disk Spindle Speed: 5400 RPM
Optical Drive: DVD+/-RW Double Layer
Screen: Acer® CineCrystal WXGA - full HD
Screen Size: 15.6"
Screen Resolution: 1366 x 768 pixels
Display Card: Nvidia GeForce GT240M
Display Card Memory: Dedicated 1GB Up to 2796MB

Thanks for all the input!

 

[Xellos]

Good choice dude, only complaint about this model is that it gets noisy at times, but well, nothing is perfect

 

[iii]

You should have bought yourself the Samsung R522 Ahadi... oh well at least your next Laptop won't be an Acer.

 

[Xellos]

Well Acers aren't as shitty as they were some years ago. The build quality improved together with the decrease in number of malfunctions. I agree that 522 would be a tad better, but in case of no availbility that Acer is also good

 

[iii]

Well Acers aren't as shitty as they were some years ago. The build quality improved together with the decrease in number of malfunctions. I agree that 522 would be a tad better, but in case of no availbility that Acer is also good

The display and the heat/noise would really bother me


http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Acer-Aspire-5739G-Notebook.19255.0.html

But then again I wouldn't buy a "gaming" laptop in the first place .