[BabylenTatarsky]

The FPS being frames per second, not first person shooter.

My current laptop is a HP Pavilion zv5014EA.

15" screen
DVD RW [color=LemonChiffon](holy mother of mary, I didn't know it could burn DVDs and I've had it for ages!)[/color]
Mobile Pentium 4
2.4 GHz
40GB HDD
512MB RAM

Now I've just copied these specs off Google so don't blame me if they're not exact.

Right, the purpose of this thread. Was playing Counterstrike Source before and getting so pissed off at dying and I finally bit the bullet and realised that 23FPS isn't enough. I want 80 minimum. And apparently 80FPS isn't even that good.

Is it realistic to be buying a laptop for playing games on? I have a PC and the laptop is set up on the disused dining table. Buying another PC is an option but I'd need to buy the thinnest, smallest, skinnyass-ist monitor and keyboard there is to keep my mum off my back. Is it possible to have a PC take up as much room as a laptop? Box under the table, tucked away, skinny ass screen on the table - sounds right?

We'll stay away from that as I've started typing now and I'm in the notebook section of the forum.

So yeah, can anyone recommend me a laptop?

I don't know about budget, I get the crappiest wages imaginable so I'm not looking for a three grand piece of equipment or anything - just something that runs CSS, MSN, Winamp and Firefox 'with the greatest of eeeaaase!'

Heh heh.. Thanks a lot.

Edit:
I've tried looking for the system requirements for HL2 and WoW (incase I ever get it back) and they seem to think my current laptop can handle it... which is bollocks. 512MB RAM is sooo not enough to handle WoW comfortably. Hell, it lags on my PC and that has 768MB.

Thanks again.

[Tobey]

I've been looking into laptops for school and I've done a lot of research on brands, hardware and customer service. Well basically what I came up with is I'll be getting a HP. If you go to the HP site you can build a custom laptop fairly easily and you can try and keep it in your price range. You can easily build a laptop that would run CSS well if your willing to spend about 1000-1300. Also just for a quick fact, the human eye can't notice the difference between frames once above 60 FPS so being the minimalist that I am just try to hang around that and anything above I feel is a waste, though it would be optimal for 60 fps to be the minimum you hit.

Also I think Toshiba isn't that bad either...

As for small PC and what not well you can win a nice flat screen in the 10k contest or you can buy a decent LCD screen.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...SubCategory=20

and then go for a slim case or a SFF(small form factor PCs) and there is actually a dedicated forum here on DH for SFF

http://driverheaven.net/forumdisplay.php?f=119
And here is a case as an example
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811125485

Hope that helps, any questions on laptops or specs let me know. I don't know much about SFF though.

p.s. I love your avatar did you make it yourself?

[BabylenTatarsky]

Thanks for the tips. Been busy lately so not really had the chance to look around.

As for HP, I couldn't find the build-your-own thing you mentioned.

Regarding small form factor PC's, I'm liking that suggestion.

Someone sent me this link: http://www.rockdirect.com/notebooks/xtreme64_cons.htm but I'm thinking I can get a better specced PC for that price. Am I right? Sure, it sounds sweet but I'm scraping together the pennies here.

Anyway, I'll keep looking around and thanks again for the advice.

One more thing, I looked into the whole 'we can only see 60FPS' and got a fairly mixed bag of replies. The biggest argument for having more is that any objects on the screen are more precise. However, if I can maintain a stable 60 frames per second, this would suffice - so thanks for that tip-off too.

EDIT: I found my avatar on a WoW guild forum but thought it was awesome so used it. Thankfully it's not one of the more over-used gifs (that guy mashing his arms off on his keyboard) so I'm not sick of it.

[Z3RO]

ever try centrino duo series...? i doubt they perform better than p4m in term of desktop-like performance....

mine is a Toshiba P35-S605 which now hardly find... Amazon ever sold it for $2400!
P4M 552 @ 3.5Ghz, 1Mb L2 Cache, 533FSB
1GB RAM
100GB HDD
DVD-RAM DOUBLE LAYER WRITER
17" 1440x900
ATI RADEON MOBILITY 9000/9100 IGP @ 128MB

the main downside is the vga of course, but i capable to play sims2, mohpa, and nfsmw in a decent to good performance... doom3 performs very bad on my lappy..

a friend of mine want a latest laptop that could play Doom3 @ 60fps minimum @ 1024x768 and the laptop must be a desktop-replacement, which mean it uses the mobile type of the desktop one such as sempron mobile or pentium 4 mobile....
he said he will wait for Pentium Extreme-Mobile or Pentium D-Mobile..... anybody ever hear this processor?