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Zoll
Luke Warm
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 153
Location: Florida
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 Posted: 10/15/04 - 16:00 Post subject: Laptop questions for gaming.
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I am considering buying a laptop mainly for gaming in the very near future. I am looking towards the Dell XPS, Alienware or Sager laptops. Anyone have experience with any of them? Also with Sager you have the option of Pentium 4 vs. AMD 64. Currently I am playing WoW beta with an AMD 2500 with a ti4600 GF4 and 1.5 gb of ram. I am thinking of buying the laptop with a P4 3.4 ghz or the AMD 64 3400, ATI 9700 with 256 mb ram and either a GB or 2 of ram, will I see a huge difference from my home system? I have not owned or gamed on a laptop before so really don't know what to expect.
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Occulis
RealPoor Jedi
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 13293
Location: Moral Relativity Central
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Posted: 10/15/04 - 16:04 Post subject:
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Put your $ into a 36-month CD and thank me in 3 years!
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Zoll
Luke Warm
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 153
Location: Florida
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Posted: 10/15/04 - 16:09 Post subject:
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Savings and retirement are not a problem. I have plenty of disposable income and want to be able to play games at work, just want to get the right toy.
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Tav
Toomuchtimeonhands
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 894
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Posted: 10/15/04 - 17:29 Post subject:
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| Zoll wrote: | | Savings and retirement are not a problem. I have plenty of disposable income and want to be able to play games at work, just want to get the right toy. |
Play games at work?
At any rate, I'm thinking the Alienware may be worth it, but pricey.
I've got a Centrino 2GHz w/ a 128MB GeForce 5650 that's decent enough.
Runs Farcry at acceptable rates... But the vid card isn't the greatest.
Best to get the ATI 9800 or whatever its called that is the most recent laptop vid card w/ 256mb.
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Frax
RealPoor Master of Posts
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 8489
Location: Fuck yoiu fucking fuckers
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Posted: 10/15/04 - 17:37 Post subject:
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In June I bought a Dell XPS, 3.4ghz, 1gb ram , 80gb HDD, ATI radeon 9700. Best computer i've ever bought.
I did have a hard drive failure after a couple of days of owning it, and I had a replacement in my hands within 3 days of callin Dell. Thats the only issue I've had with it.
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Frax
RealPoor Master of Posts
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 8489
Location: Fuck yoiu fucking fuckers
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Posted: 10/15/04 - 17:38 Post subject:
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| Tav wrote: | | Zoll wrote: | | Savings and retirement are not a problem. I have plenty of disposable income and want to be able to play games at work, just want to get the right toy. |
Play games at work?
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I remember Zoll saying he's a fireman or EMT.. sometimes they have a lot of free time when they are just waiting for someone to crash a car or set their kitchen on fire, etc.
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Zoll
Luke Warm
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 153
Location: Florida
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Posted: 10/15/04 - 17:58 Post subject:
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Yep, firefighter paramedic. I am assigned to a slower station so have plenty of free time, typically in a 24 hour shift I do around 5 to 10 calls, each take about an hour, then there is about an hour or two of paperwork and work around the station that has to be done depending what day of the week it is.
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Bronze
Luke Warm
Joined: 23 Oct 2002
Posts: 330
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Posted: 10/15/04 - 18:10 Post subject:
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Go with the Sager, I have a Sager 5680 and its amazing. paid 2500 for it
1 gig ram
ati radeon 9600 128m
3 ghz
ive had it for 1 year, so far and have never had a single problem with it.
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