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New laptop thoughts?

  • 17-11-2006 2:04am
    #1
    ionapaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,307 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I'm recently arrived down in Australia and want to buy a laptop to see me through the year - primarily for playing online poker, surfing the net and watching DVDs, but I would love to fit some gaming in if I could. What games could the following machine handle decently?:
    - AMD Turion 64 MK-36 2.0GHz, 512MHz cache single core CPU
    - 1GB ram
    - ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 256MB graphics chip (review here: http://laptoplogic.com/resources/detail.php?id=45&page=2 - I'm damned if I can understand their conclusions!)

    Deus Ex? Call of Duty? Painkiller?

    Also, if I take this back to dear old Ireland with me, what do I need to purchase power supply-wise?

    Thanks for any thoughts on this :)


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  • #2
    StickyMcGinty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,835 ✭✭✭StickyMcGinty


    your prob better off asking in the laptop forum

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=378


  • #3
    irlrobins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    VinnyL wrote:
    your prob better off asking in the laptop forum
    Indeed, moved


  • #4
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    The X1150 is an integrated graphics chip but the best available so far in the integrated market.

    It will run those games you've mentioned at high settings without much bother.

    The X1150 can actually run BF2142 smoothly at low settings, a pretty good acheivement for an integrated solution. If the games you've mentioned are all you plan playing, then the X1150 is perfectly adequate.


  • #5
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    ionapaul wrote:
    Also, if I take this back to dear old Ireland with me, what do I need to purchase power supply-wise?

    Power supply should be fine - just double check it can take 220V. If that is the case, then all you need is an adapter to convert Ossie plugs to Irish plugs.


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