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soap box about laptop 3d

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Ollie98

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just a quick soap box about laptop 3d - we are finally starting to see machines that can spit out playable framerates at 1024x (XGA), yet many of the new machines have XGA+ and UXGA screens. what this means is that their native resolutions are 1400x and 1600x respectively and so any res less than that looks SH!TTY. what people who care about gaming on a lappy need is XGA screens paired up with 2Go and Radeon mobility chips. i have a IBM T21 with an 8mb Savage IX and it is a great little 3d rig, but it can't really put up high enough frame rates at 1024x (it has a 14.1" XGA). knock the res down to 800x and games look just like the 2d environment does on any LCD at their non-native resolutions - SH!TTY. so if anyone is hard charging out to get their gaming laptop beware of this, and quite frankly 1024x w/ small icons on a 14.1" or 15" laptop screen is more than enough real estate for most unless you are a Graphics/CAD person.

i write this because i see posts where people are going to buy x or y laptop and 'it is going to be kicka$$ for gaming and it is going to have an UXGA screen and...'
 
It also matters how well the laptop screen and vid chip scales down. Another thing to note is this is less of a problem with video/graphics than it is with text (heck, just look at your TV. video looks great, text looks crappy).
 
non-native resolution in games is usually acceptable, but certainly not very pretty compared to the way things will look at the native res.
 
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