How good are laptops for playing games?

StevenMara

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I am thinking of getting one in the $400 (used), so on eBay I have seen some with P4 1.6GHz and Celeron 2-2.2 GHz and I think at least 256MB RAM. What kind of video processing do these have, onboard? How well would UT2004 and CS:S work?
 

Jeff7

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In all likelihood, not very well. If it's Intel integrated graphics - forget it. Try Half Life 1 at 640x480 and you might be alright.
If it's maybe something by ATI, you might be a bit better off, but a lot will use shared RAM. I have ATI's IGP 340M in this laptop, and it can play HL1 at 1024x768 at a playable framerate, though I don't remember how well it did anymore. No antialiasing either.

You'd want something with dedicated video RAM.
 

Crescent13

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my laptop

p4 2.8 northwood
768 mb ram (128 shared) therefore, 640 usable ram
Radeon 9000 IGP

would play half-life 2 at 1024x768 with 16x AF.
 

w00t

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a dell xps would play source but you could only play for like 30min i bet.
 

Southparkrocks

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Will a 1.6 Pentium M with one gb of memory but with only 32mb vid card play hl1 or mayble hl2 on all low with lowest res ok?
 

stevty2889

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How much are you looking to spend? You can get a laptop with a 1.6ghz Pentium-M, mobile radeon 9700, 40gb HD, 512mb of ram, for just under $1100, I am highly considering that one myself.

A 16mb mobile radeon is still old and not gonna handle much, the one with the 1.6 pentium-m, and gig of ram..it really depends on what the 32mb video is..if it's intel its not gonna work well, if it's at least a ati 9000 it will probably handle HL2 at a low res.