Laptop Suggestions
By
Bantar,
Posted on: 2009-07-13 21:15 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
"CoX is most likely the most advanced game she will play"
And with that, you just defined the hardest thing the laptop will do. It is a punishing game to perform right. So, yeah, it does kinda need to be mid-high end, performance wise.
Asus/ asustek's website is jacked up. I found it, and it's not a SU3500, that's an intel chip number. it's an UX50 model:
http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=5&a...amp;modelmenu=2
The G105 is a 9300 in effect. It'll play, but...
These CPUs aren't as fast as the other Asus offering, and the one you've picked is the slower of the two Core chips. It'll play, but, I think I'd be looking at number 2 first:
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The other Asus... more jacked up web, here's a cached version from google:
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:TZs...=clnk&gl=us
It has the G102... about the same, probably less(?) than the G105 performance wise. The dual core CPU is good... provided you got the Core and not the Pentium. Oh, the Pentium would be ok, but Core is faster and cooler and less power used.
Do. Not. Get. The. Celeron.
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The HP is pretty ok. The Turion is good, probably a little more power used, but the 8200 graphics... meh. I do like HP lappies, but for this... eh... I'd like a little bit better video chip.
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I'm assuming that price is an issue? Maybe you can help narrow things down:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/PowerS...amp;GASearch=3
You can pick all kinds of things that may help you decide what's good... for example, NVidia video cards of the x6xx or better mentality (hm... no G2xx series?), Intel Dual or quad cores of the Core or Pentium line, and 4 G of memory yields this:
http://tinyurl.com/na575v (hadda make it small)
I'd be lookin' at this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834147995
'cause it's an HP, and they're my favorite current lappy maker.
However, the lowest priced Acer at $300 less:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834115539
would certainly do the job. I'm just not an Acer fan. Bad experiences.
Dunno if that helps... but in the three you picked? I would probably go with the second one, it has the better specs for CPU/GPU balancing. Even then, I'm still looking around.
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I forgot to list that Acer off newegg you referenced last. We were already leaning toward that one, but I wanted to get feedback from the community first. I should have done that before we bought the one we just returned (a Toshiba Satellite with an ATI card, what a headache.)
Any other suggestions, one and all?
Well out of all them, the Acer certainly has the moxie to do it. Good card, good processor, good memory... it's not a bad deal, but I'm just not an Acer guy... the reviews seem positive though.
August 31, 2012. A Day that will Live in Infamy. Or Information. Possibly Influence. Well, Inf, anyway. Thank you, Paragon Studios, for what you did, and the enjoyment and camaraderie you brought.
This is houtex, aka Mike, signing off the forums. G'night all. - 10/26/2012
Well... perhaps I was premature about that whole 'signing off' thing... - 11-9-2012
I just purchased the Asus X83V. Comes with 4GB of RAM 250 GB HDD, 6 USB ports, 1 E-SATA port, VGA and HDMI. For 650 bux it also has the 512MB GeForce 9300m GS card and dual core. The only thing I dislike about the laptop is the battery lide is only 3 hours. Would have liked a longer battery. There is a model just higher, with a slightly faster CPU and a 1GB video card, it was about 200 more, but I hated the color lol.
Okay, so I'm considering laptops for my fiance to play CoX on. I am not knowledgable about the laptop specific video cards. CoX is most likely the most advanced game she will play, so it doesn't need to be very high-end. Here are the three models we are looking at right now.
ASUS SU3500, which has 4gig RAM and the NVidia G105M.
ASUS K50IN-X1(maybe 0<-->o, 1<-->I ?), which has the G102M
or
HP G60-445DX, which has the NVidia 8200M.
I can't find any info on ASUS's site for either of the laptops we saw. The SU3500 we saw at Bestbuy, the K50 we saw on newegg. The link to the HP is here.