Mobile Systems for graphics

[aniki]

What does the future look like for playing first person shooters smoothly on notebooks?

 

[Dark4ng3l]

not very good. Nobody is interested in making good protable 3d cards because there is no marke for it. All the hardcore gamers use desktops.

 

[JackHawksmoor]

Actually Nvidia is FINALLY bringing the Geforce 2 to notebooks next year. Obviously desktop systems will be the best for the forseeable future, but notebooks should finally be a realistic gaming platform again.

 

[Rand]

Not great but soon you should be able to do some gaming on a laptop.
NVidia has announced the Geforce2GO chip for mobile computers.

 

[bigshooter]

My friend has a dell laptop (inspiron i think) with a 32meg vid card. I played cs on it and q3 while i was out of town. It worked great. Maybe it wasn't the same speed that I get with my geforce2, but it worked. Very good at 1024x768. Just looked at dell's website, i think he has the inspiron 8000 with the ATI M4 (probably another rage 128 rehash) with 32megs. The computer itself is pretty fast though, p3-750 with 256megs ram.