contimplating..power laptop , or power saving laptop?

[ViviTheMage]

I do not know what to get for a laptop. I can get a nice Dell 9300 with a 6800 GO 256mb , 17" beautiful screen, 80gig hard drive, the works. OR I can get a smaller laptop, 14"-15" screen, that saves battary life really well, but I wont be able to play my games on it at all. I guess, itll just be used for word processing if I get that. I would use it for school, because for now I am going to a community college because it is cheaper then a unniversity and I have some freetime between classes, an hour usually. Id love to play CS or Source, or bf2 even...I dont know! I have had a smaller 15" lappy at school, I still get bored during the break, I also have had a 17" nice sony vaio with a 9700 in it and was able to play CS, but I dont know what I should get! I do have a nice gaming desktop at home to....soo keep the school work at school and the games at home or mix it up?! help :X SO confused here!

 

[modedepe]

Shouldn't you be studying during your break?

I wouldn't really recommend getting a 17" to take to school. You're going to get really sick of carrying it around. 15.4" max, IMO. Depends what your priorities are though. My advice would be to get a smaller laptop with lowish end dedicated graphics. Might look at something like the MSI 1022 (14" widescreen, 6200 video). Something like that would player older games fine, and even newer ones at low settings.

On my 14" T41p I can play CS:S at alright settings without a lot of lag. This is with a FireGL T2 (9600 chipset).

 

[phisrow]

I'd recommend a smaller machine, myself. I've got a 14.1 inch model, and I wouldn't want to go too much higher. You can get decent performance out of 14 inch models, and they really are notably more portable than larger stuff.

 

[OdiN]

Contemplating BTW.

Your post looks like a jumbled mess...so I'll just say that I have a Dell 600m and love it. I had an Inspiron 8000 before that and it was a beast to carry around at the airport, etc. The 600m is much more manageable...it has the Pentium M, good battery life and good performance. Not made for playing games. Not really what laptops are for IMHO.

 

[simms]

14.1 is the max I'd go. I bring mine to school as well and it plays CS even with a Radeon 7500 32MB card.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Keep the games at home. I wouldn't want to play CS or anything of that nature on a laptop keyboard.

Besides,

Originally posted by: modedepe
Shouldn't you be studying during your break?

- M4H

 

[ViviTheMage]

I should be studying, haha.

But playing BF2 sounds appealing! I have never liked HP laptops, or anything of the sort for some reason.

 

[Mermaidman]

Trading portability for ~1 hr of gaming=bad IMO. I've made the mistake of choosing power over portability when I needed a laptop for travelling.