Laptop Recommendations?
soozelwoozel:
OK, you know what, this laptop hate is ridonkulous. Yes, of course, a desktop is far superior when it comes to playing games, as you can get a much better rig for much less money and less chance of burnination. But that doesn't mean you CAN'T play The Sims on a laptop, it's just not optimum. There are plenty of reasons why people use laptops and not desktops. It's just so boring to always hear the same histrionic refrain of "GET A DESKTOP". Clearly knightguy wants a laptop over a desktop FOR A REASON.
I have never simmed on a desktop. I used to play TS2 on this hulking beast of an HP, which did have overheating problems, but this was rectified by a cheap fan. It handled everything pretty well but took eons to load the game. Course, this isn't much help for knightguy, as this was a couple of years ago now. Now I play on a macbook, and whilst the game is definitely far from optimum, its lag is not so bad that it makes me stop playing. Yeah, it would be better to play on a Windows desktop, but I'm not going to be replacing my mac anytime soon for the sake of a single game.
So yeah, if I can play pudding on a 2 year old macbook pro, then there's definitely a laptop out there knightguy can use to play a decent game of Sims.
morriganrant:
The "this is what I have! It runs great!" posts are almost useless without specs and game setup. Game settings, CC, Expansions and Stuff Packs, plus the specs on the Laptop would probably be much more helpful, just saying. Google could supply the specs, but not the rest of that info.
Madame Mim:
I know of a really great thing you can do to entertain yourself when away from your desktop PC. It's called a book. It was a fantastic invention in the realms of entertainment discovered many many years ago, and it has recently gone through some radical alterations. Now, not only can you carry a light weight collection of papers which contain words of education, enlightenment and entertainment, but you can also opt for technologically more advanced versions. You can carry an e-reader and have a library at your finger tips. You can opt for a library of audio books on your phone or mp3 player. You could even sell out and get an iPad.
You do not need to be permenantly attached to a computer to enjoy life.
Jeebus:
Quote from: morriganrant on 2011 September 02, 22:23:33
The "this is what I have! It runs great!" posts are almost useless without specs and game setup. Game settings, CC, Expansions and Stuff Packs, plus the specs on the Laptop would probably be much more helpful, just saying. Google could supply the specs, but not the rest of that info.
My current lappy is a Dell (a mistake, I know) that does have heating issues--it can reach temperatures above 70 Celsius when under stress--but does manage to play TS3 well.
Specs:
Windoze 7 64-bit
i7 Q820M @ 1.73 GHz
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670
8 GB RAM
500 GB HDD
It's a lumbering 17" dinosaur, but it can play TS3 quite well on high settings. Because of the damage I've managed to do to it in the year and a half I've had it, I'm already planning on getting a new laptop. I'm looking at a 16" Vaio F-series laptop with these specs:
Windoze 7 64-bit
i7-2720QM @ 2.2 GHz
Nvidia Geforce 540M
8 GB RAM
640 GB HDD
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http://You do not need to be permenantly attached to a computer to enjoy life.
Of course you do! What kind of sick person are you?
jezzer:
Quote from: Madame Mim on 2011 September 02, 23:11:16
You do not need to be permenantly attached to a computer to enjoy life.
HERETIC! Should we stone her? I think we should stone her.
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