Laptop question about SH3 and SH4

[johnno74]

Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey

The first thing I would suggest is to not buy a Dell. However its up to you sir.

If you really want a Laptop with muscle I would advise one with an Intel T7600 2.33GHz dual core chip. Its the fastest mobile processor money can buy at present.

Get yourself 2 gigs of ram

I think dell latitude laptops are quite good. The inspiron are a bit cheap, but the latitude laptops are designed for business use and are much more solid and are better supported by dell, for only a modest extra price. I've had two, both with 3 year warranties. First one is still going strong, its now 6 years old... no chance of playing SH3 on that

And regards to CPU - not such a big deal what you get. graphics card will be the limiting factor. I have a T7200 (core2 duo, 2ghz) and I've just finished playing SH3 and when I look at the task manager history graph, it never went above 30%.

Whatever you get, I reccommend you get a 3 year warranty.

2GB of ram is worthwhile too.

[Penelope_Grey]

Oh Im not saying Dell are no good, I don't doubt they make decent systems, but... Dell are more Business and Educated orientated than for individual usage. If you are a businessperson or a teacher, you're laughing...

[Hakahura]

I run SH3 with GWX on a laptop with no problems at all. I also ran SH4 for a while whilst the game worked fine, the Pacific just didn't do it for me.

My laptops specs are...

AMD Turion 64 x 2 TL50 processor
256MB NVIDIA Geforce Go 7600 dedicated graphics card
2 x 512MB SO DDR-2 667MHz memory
120GB S-ATA hard drive
15.4" WXGA X-Bright wide screen display (1280x800)

Made by a UK company called Evesham.
Don't know if you can get one easily in Canada but I would definitly recomend one.

[Penelope_Grey]

Evesham are a good make from what my friend says, her father has a Evesham desktop.

[The Bandit]

ok well I did some more reading and it looks like right now the the laptops I am looking at, the Celeron chip they are using is actually just Core 2 Duo cut down to single core (Merom-L chip) it dosn't have speed step so like you guys mentioned earlier it won't cut down the voltage. Thing is right now price is really important, I already have emptied my pockets on a brand new desk top that will be able to run any game in the forseable future (video card could use a little work, I went a little cheap on it but I will cross that bridge when I come to it), really all I am looking for right now is somthing portable that I might even end up using for school that will let me run SH3 and SH4 (and by run I mean not chug and do a decent job of the graphics, not spectacular but just get the job done). I am trying to stay away from the intel integrated graphics though. Right now I'm looking at a Dell Vostro, cheaper busniess model Dell, came out not too long ago, slotted under the lattitude. preferably I would like to keep the total cost to under or just a little over $1500.

[irish1958]

I have an athelon 4000+ with a radeon 200express and 2gb of ram.
I run SH3 very well, but SH4 gets about one frame an hour at the lowest settings.
Get the duel core and the best video card with the most ram and 2gb of system ram.
If you can't afford this now, find a rich and generous girl friend and be very, very nice to her.
:p:p:p

[Von Manteuffel]

I'm very happy with my Dell XPS M1710 notebook. The Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7600 Processor (2.33GHz,667MHz,4MB L2 cache); 512 Mb DDR3 nVidia GeForce Go 7950 GTX graphics card; and with 2 Mb RAM play SH3 like a dream and handle SH4 tolerably well. An added bonus is the 17.0" UltraSharp™ Wide Screen WUXGA (1920x1200) TFT Display. Both games look superb.