Buying a laptop
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pr0
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Yeah i need to buy a laptop that will run the games i play (CSS, PW, L4D etc) so does anyone with any laptop experience or knows a lot about them give me advice on where i can buy/what type and what ill need. Ta
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The following are my personal opinions.
You will want something with an nvidia or ATI chipset for gaming, with 128MB-256MB video RAM or higher.
You do NOT want to get a netbook, unless it is for university only.
Try to get the best system that you can for your budget.
If you get one with Vista, make sure you have 2-4GBs of RAM in it.
Here are some links to places where you can buy laptops online:
http://www.newegg.com/
http://www.tigerdirect.com/
http://www.cdw.com/
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Home.jsp
http://www.amazon.com/Notebooks-Laptop-Computers/b/ref=amb_link_6682722_6?ie=UTF8&node=565108&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=gp-left-1&pf_rd_r=0BYP186QWE5WS606K870&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470318411&pf_rd_i=541966
http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/store_access.do?template_type=landing&landing=notebooks
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You will need something with dedicated graphics. If you get one with nVidia, make sure the second digit in its name is at least 6 (exampie 9600M). I'm not sure how ATI numbers things, but for nVidia, anything less than an *600 will suck.
Also since just about every laptop has Vista now, make sure it can run DirectX 10.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html
Any GeForce or Radeon higher than 69th place should be good.
*Quadro and FireGL are not gaming cards.
Also just a tip, laptops with semi-decent graphical abilities are more expensive than a desktop with great graphical abilities. And running a game will drain the battery really quickly as well as make the laptop heat up. For me, I'd prefer a cheap laptop for office/web and a mid-priced desktop for gaming.0 -
Really useful info thanks for the replys0
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