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| Posted: Saturday, September 12, 2009 at
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| What about laptops, guys. What should I be looking for? I have a Dell Inspiron 1505. |
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| Posted: Saturday, September 12, 2009 at
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| Any laptop with an actual graphics card, NOT one with a onboard-integrated card, and of course one with a min of 7200 rpm drive and good front side bus. |
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| Posted: Saturday, September 12, 2009 at
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| Dell offers an upgrade to a 256-bit interface card for that machine........... |
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| Posted: Saturday, September 12, 2009 at
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| Have at it... More than likely not a gamming machine.. |
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| Posted: Saturday, September 12, 2009 at
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We have a notebook with a 8700GT 512mb, and plays TW pretty good, even my FPS games too. Now we haven't look lately, and I'm sure they probably got much better GPU's for notebooks since we where last looking at them a yr ago so can;t say what kind to get nthese days.
I kinda remember reading you want to make sure it's a dedicated GPU in a Notebook because Notebooks can't be upgraded like a Desktop can apparently. Don't get on board motherboard graphics in a notebook if you want to play demanding games on it. Even helps with watching HD things, and is suppose to help the CPU usage too from what I remember, but not sure how. The dedicated GPU memory is good to take load off system memory.
Good luck, and I wish I knew more about PC's, but from our experience looking around for a Notebook I remember this much.....:)
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| Posted: Saturday, September 12, 2009 at
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| edited by: Squirrely on
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http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html
This is one of the links I used to find out info before we spent our limited cash on a Notebook, and it seemed to have some cool stuff to read about Notebooks GPUs.
Oh yeah, they got some 240 & 260 out now for Notebooks now. Man, things sure do move fast in the PC world. You blink, and your behind big time it seems.....
Hope this helps ya
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| Posted: Saturday, September 12, 2009 at
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| If one knows and how to, the right kind of laptop is very upgradeable. |
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| Posted: Sunday, September 13, 2009 at
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| You couldn't be more right, Boze, . and it's decidedly not a gaming machine......... |
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| Posted: Monday, September 14, 2009 at
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| Thanks for all the feedback. I will look into what my options may be. |
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