Will Silent Hunter 5 run on a Laptop?

[Arclight]

That's a good idea, if you can make it work. But it might drain it faster than it's recharged.

To be honest, I'm terribly biased against laptops and pre-built desktops in general, because I know I can get the same or better hardware for less money. A laptop can be used for gaming, but you have to accept setting the options a bit lower than you would be able to on a desktop. A GTX260M or GTX280M sounds impressive, but in reality it compares to about a 9800GT with lowered clockspeeds.

In fact, that GTX280M is not a GTX card at all: it has the G92 core, the same core as I have on my 8800GTS 512, a card that's (I think) 1.5 years old. But to keep the temps and powerconsumption reasonable, they lowered the clocks for the mobile chipset.

They call it a GTX and charge you as if it were, when in fact they stick you with parts that were gathering dust for the past year. That's another thing that ticks me of, and probably means I shouldn't be the one giving "advise" about gaming laptops just now.

Even when this has happened on the desktop (remember back to when G92 transitioned from the 8800/9800 series to the GTS 250?) it drew only minor quibble, since the model number 250 didn’t imply parity to existing parts. But if renaming the GTX 8800 to GTS 250 after little more than a die shrink and clock increase went half a step beyond what most enthusiasts wanted to see, underclocking the same so-called GTS 250 part below desktop GeForce 8800 GTS 512-levels and raising its model number to that of last summer’s flagship is at least two steps—if not a giant leap—too far. Notebook buyers expecting the very best of last-year’s desktop performance from this year’s mobile parts will be stunned to find that their products don’t even live up to the specifications of 2007’s upper-mainstream graphics processor.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...0m,2353-6.html