Help me pick which one

[warchief_ryan]

I’ve been looking at getting a laptop that can play games but not cost to much ($1,500 and under), I’ve looked at most of the major company’s and around the forums to see any ones people have linked to any good ones, the ones I have narrowed it down to is the

- Gateway Notebook with Mobile AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor 3700+
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7267815&type=product&productCategoryId=cat01174&id=1117177722061

Or the

- Hewlett-Packard ZD8000. http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/computer_series.do?series_name=zd8000_series&catLevel=2&category=notebooks/hp_pavilion&storeName=computer_store
Which one should I get? or can I get a link to a good one?

[wazzledoozle]

Both have a X600 which sucks, its a 9600 non-pro for PCI-E. Plus they have an Athlon 64, and the other has a Pentium 4 desktop chip. Both will suck down a battery before you could do anything useful.

This has a Turion, an ultra low power Athlon 64 based chip, and a X700 Mobile which is about the same as a 9800XT. DVD Burner, wifi, gigabit lan.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834115196

[warchief_ryan]

But the video memory is only 64mb :/

[wazzledoozle]

But the video memory is only 64mb :/
Would still smack around the X600 with 128 mb.

[wazzledoozle]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834224028

60 gb hard drive and a dvd-rom/cdrw but a 128 mb 9700. Would still be better than a 64 mb x700.

[gR3iF]

http://configure2.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=de&cs=dedhs1&kc=305&l=de&oc=N09XP5&s=dhs&sbc=inspn_xps

this would be my notebook dell is good in this choice

[wazzledoozle]

http://configure2.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=de&cs=dedhs1&kc=305&l=de&oc=N09XP5&s=dhs&sbc=inspn_xps

this would be my notebook dell is good in this choice
Thats quite a bit more than 1500 USD$ :)

[warchief_ryan]

Can I make the card work off the system ram instead of the gpu's memory, like if its the 64mb have it work off my 2gb system ram?

[DR.Death]

just buy a laptop and up grade it because then u can get it to were u want the only thing about laptops that i hate is the lack of beeing able to up grade well try that

[warchief_ryan]

The only laptop that if seen that you can upgrade the Gpu is the AlienWare's

[wazzledoozle]

Can I make the card work off the system ram instead of the gpu's memory, like if its the 64mb have it work off my 2gb system ram?
Yeah, its called the agp aperature. It will allocate some system ram for dedicated graphics memory.

[Darksaber]

I’ve been looking at getting a laptop that can play games but not cost to much ($1,500 and under), I’ve looked at most of the major company’s and around the forums to see any ones people have linked to any good ones, the ones I have narrowed it down to is the

- Gateway Notebook with Mobile AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor 3700+
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7267815&type=product&productCategoryId=cat01174&id=1117177722061

Or the

- Hewlett-Packard ZD8000. http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/computer_series.do?series_name=zd8000_series&catLevel=2&category=notebooks/hp_pavilion&storeName=computer_store
Which one should I get? or can I get a link to a good one?


how bout this puppy:

http://www.geizhals.at/a147501.html
I don't know how much it would be in the US...but here it is 1429 Euros incl. Tax...
17 inch, 6800 256MB, 80GB,...yes 4,1kg..but hey you can't have everything *G*

cheers
Vahid

[warchief_ryan]

Yeah, its called the agp aperature. It will allocate some system ram for dedicated graphics memory.

Can I increase it to 256? Becuase if i can that would solve all my problems :)

[wazzledoozle]

Can I increase it to 256? Becuase if i can that would solve all my problems :)
Every board is different, but ive yet to see a motherboard without agp aperature settings.