[Archived] Laptops

[Shevchenko]

How are laptops for games, generally?

[Glenn]

How are laptops for games, generally?

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Mine plays World Of Warcraft (the most CPU/GPU/Ram intensive game I play) at a comparable speed to my desktop, even with a crappy on board video card. Screen refresh speeds are no longer a problem.

The only problem I had was the finger-pointey-mouse-pad-thing was rubbish, but when I connect a real mouse it now seems every bit as good as my desktop.

[cn174]

I'm thinking about buying a mini/small laptop for when we go to Germany because mine is far too big to be lumping round for a month.

Ideally the screen wont be bigger than 10" and whilst it doesn't need to have brand new spec i need it to be able to take pictures off a camera, go on the internet, have office features etc - and be quite reasonably priced.

Any suggestions?

[tchocky]

Guess this is as close as you can get to 10":

http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/products/mo...lifebook_p.html

It's a tablet. Havent seen any notebooks less than 12" really. If thats OK you can't do better than a Lenovo X60s - dual core CPU. Mmmmm....

[Driftpeasant]

I'm thinking about buying a mini/small laptop for when we go to Germany because mine is far too big to be lumping round for a month.

Ideally the screen wont be bigger than 10" and whilst it doesn't need to have brand new spec i need it to be able to take pictures off a camera, go on the internet, have office features etc - and be quite reasonably priced.

Any suggestions?

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I don't know that you really WANT to go with the Transmeta chipset, but Sharp makes an Ultraportable that should run XP and do what you need it to do for a month.

[vindaloobob]

Sorry, but I'm still very confused as to why anyone would spend over a grand on a computer to do word processing and internet on. I do professional audio editing on mine and it cost less than that, and the one that I had previously did internet and word processing perfectly (but alas, was rubbish at high end audio editing) and I sold that for the grand total of zero pounds and zero pence.