Good specs for a gaming laptop?

[clark]

I have 512mg ram, 1.6ghz CPU, ATI radeon xpress 200m 128mb shared vram graphics card, 60gig hard drive. also I've heard that the hardware on a laptop never performs as well as the desktop equivelent, is this true.

Not entirely sure about the CPU was the salesperson said it is a 1.6 but some of the diagnose programs I run seem to think it is a 1.8??

 

[lilDeath]

uhmm...do u want to use this spec to play games with?

you wont get very far with this spec. Minimum for RAM on a gaming notebook is 1GB. CPU can be higher too
And the 128MB SHARED video gfx card is also not a good idea.

Maybe you should mention what kind of games you were looking at playing?

 

[clark]

Hi yeah sorry for the delay. Well most games I guess. LOTR Battle for Middle Earth 2, Unreal Tournement, etc. Yeah I was told that it was a dedicated card, but since then have learn't that it' not. Would the upgrade to 1gig memory help or is the machine still not powerful enough? It runs LOTR but on low graphics.

 

[MrG]

I have 512mg ram, 1.6ghz CPU, ATI radeon xpress 200m 128mb shared vram graphics card, 60gig hard drive. also I've heard that the hardware on a laptop never performs as well as the desktop equivelent, is this true.

Not entirely sure about the CPU was the salesperson said it is a 1.6 but some of the diagnose programs I run seem to think it is a 1.8??

If its a Alienware laptop then no, it will kick any desktop (well most of them atleast) from here to moon and back

 

[lilDeath]

upgrading to 1Gb will help a bit but it is still not the same as a dedicated card, there is essentially performance sharing going on betweenrest of the system and the crd.
It is all you can do tho, so try it, upgrading that is.
I reckon you should be able to play the games you want to, maybe not at max res but it's still something.

 

[vampirotoothus]

If you wanna play games, get a desktop! Its gonna be cheaper to upgrade and performs better with less problems...