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Abby Thatcher
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Join date: 28 Jan 2006
Posts: 6
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10-23-2007 21:47
Hi ~ looking to buy a laptop so i can play sl again! could anyone please tell me if this one would work... Toshiba Satellite A215-S4697 15.4" operating system Windows Vista home premium processor - AMD Turion 64 x 2 processor speed - 1.60 GHz bus speed - 1600 mhz level 2 cache - 2x 512 kb RAM - 1 GB hard drive speed - 5400 rpm ATI Radeon X1200 graphics and 319MB of shared video memory—drawn from system memory. thanks so much for your expertise  |
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Chas Connolly
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Join date: 24 Jan 2007
Posts: 1,433
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10-24-2007 01:11
From: Abby Thatcher Hi ~ looking to buy a laptop so i can play sl again! could anyone please tell me if this one would work... Toshiba Satellite A215-S4697 15.4" operating system Windows Vista home premium processor - AMD Turion 64 x 2 processor speed - 1.60 GHz bus speed - 1600 mhz level 2 cache - 2x 512 kb RAM - 1 GB hard drive speed - 5400 rpm ATI Radeon X1200 graphics and 319MB of shared video memory—drawn from system memory. thanks so much for your expertise I'm no expert, but people have reported problems with Vista and ATI graphics cards. IGB RAM could also be a little 'light'. Check out the Technical issues forum. I'm sure you'll get better answers there. |
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Resolver Bouchard
Registered User
Join date: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 89
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10-24-2007 03:58
The graphics card shares it memory with the main system memory, there won't be a lot left to run Vista and SL once the graphics card has taken its lump.
Better to find one with seperate graphics memory, ideally an Intel processor and Nvidia graphics.
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Cruise Swain
Virtual Life Stream
Join date: 13 Dec 2006
Posts: 60
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10-24-2007 07:11
Would be hard to make SL work on that laptop..
I recently bought a Vista laptop - AMD x2 1.6 Ghz too, but with 2 GB of RAM and a GeForce videocard. SL runs beautifully on it (with a lower FPS compared to the desktop ofcourse)
My advice, invest in RAM and Videocard (Make sure you get GeForce) and you'll be fine.
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Finora Kuncoro
Impish Stoic
Join date: 11 Dec 2006
Posts: 213
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10-24-2007 08:23
I think it is too little RAM to comfortably run SL. Also the graphics chip looks a bit underpowered to me.
I have used several laptops with SL. In busy places you can easily be using over 1 GB of memory.
My suggestion would be to at least increase the memory to 2 GB. Getting a laptop with a better graphics chip (the ones with their own memory are best IMO), would help a lot, but I appreciate that choices are often limited with laptops.
For your information I use a Toshiba Tecra M9 2.2 GHz Centrino pro dual core with a Nvidia NVS 130 graphics chip and 2 GB RAM. It runs SL quite happily.
Of course this is my company laptop bought for me by the evil multinational I work for. To over compensate I have named the laptop George which is nice and inoffensive.
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Lee Ponzu
What Would Steve Do?
Join date: 28 Jun 2006
Posts: 1,770
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not well...
10-24-2007 17:55
The ATI 1200 graphics card is not very good. An ATI 1600 or newer, or an nVidia 7xxx or better would be much better.
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