Laptops & LAN Parties

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  oh yeah those latest projectors are freaking awesome. one day when i'm filthy rich from selling shack to... : Steve Gibson
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    I have access to one at work :) (funny how the Superbowl ended up on my wall at home too!) : Dread Pirate Roberts
    • Damn. Great minds think alike, I guess. We did the same thing Super Bowl Sunday. -Rev. : Rev. Trimble
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    Is it true that on a really cloudy overcast night with the right conditions you can play quake on the sk... : Vorlonesque
    • HAHAHA, that would be nutty. : Turd Ferguson
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      that would be sweet, my school has one of those. How much do you think they would cost? If you have a n... : spector
      • Low end models are ~$2k. The new kick-ass ones are ~$5k. It makes my living room wall look like a comp... : Dread Pirate Roberts
      • or a white sheet over the wall. : Turd Ferguson
    • I've played on a n64 hooked to a projector that we took outside at night and projected onto a garage doo... : Morgin

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  I've got an Inspiron with the 15" UXGA, 32mb gf2go, and 256mb memory. I've played at many a lan part... : haxorwear
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    Relatively, they won't get that much better. Desktops will smear them for a long time to come. The gap... : Freon
    • I dont recommend someone buying one as their "sole gaming computer" by any means. Too many fun toys c... : haxorwear

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• yeah, that bug is affecting many radeon cards not just the mobility. ive seen several screenshots of th... : Turd Ferguson

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• I was looking for a way to streamline that whole 'pack up all your shit' experience forever. There was a : Rev. Trimble

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  That does look pretty sweet. I have no problems carrying around my PC for lans though, so its not worth ... : {Venger}
  • I think the same way as you but you know what? in the last 8 years, the only 'expansion' I've ever used ... : johnny rotten
• yay me : johnny rotten
• I'm reading the preview of it right now. That thing is sick! : mofo

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• /reminds pup about the laptop he brought to nebraska on his visit :) : king_darius
• it's got these huge bear claws and doesn't know how to kill the bunny! : jvox

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  yeah, the GeForce2Go has been out for what, a year? : Dechter
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    i heard that they didnt quite live up to being all that wonderful, but i admit i never even looked at be... : Steve Gibson
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      it depends which version you get. AFAIK Dell is the only one with the beefy 32 MB chips. Toshiba stick... : drazz
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        i probably talked to someone who had the cheaper one then, said he was getting some nasty texture thrash... : Steve Gibson
        • Yah, I have the 32 mg version. : Grandmoff
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          I have the 32Mb Dell version and it's "ok" for Quake 3 Halflife and stuff like that.. Tribes 2/AVP2 and ... : -TKF-
          • Oh? I'm really happy with mine - I play quite a bit of Wolfenstein and Medal of Honor on it. It works ... : Teiresias
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      I've used a 32mb GF2Go on a Dell lappy (p3-800 I think, but don't hold me to it) and it ran about everyt... : Dechter
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        Driver Support for Notebooks are done through the Notebook Manufacture. you can't just download from www... : -TKF-
        • No kidding. That's my only gripe with the laptop - gotta go through Dell to get driver updates. :P : Teiresias

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  how is the performance on the gf2go? any quirks? my laptop is seriously aging (300mhz with 64megs of ram... : Steve Gibson
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    I would be slightly wary of getting one of these now. It was an awesome buy last summer, but I see mayb... : drazz
    • the memory is kind of slow, yah, but pushing triangles doesn't seem to be a problem. You quickly get a ... : drazz
  • wait until the GeForce4go or whatever it's called is released in a little bit, then get that. : archon
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    i would go for the 7500 mobility, its considerably faster than the gf2go http://www.tomshardware.com/mob... : Turd Ferguson
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      holy shit that's not even close. wonder how the gf4go will do. : Steve Gibson
      • the GF4GO is supposed to be one of the MX versions I believe so its going to be about the speed of a Gef... : spector
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        its going to rock its world http://www.amdmb.com/article-display.php?ArticleID=138&PageID=4 : Turd Ferguson
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          omg I take that back : spector
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            those q3 benches are with FSAA mind you. : Turd Ferguson
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              Hmm but it makes the ATI look like its getting 24 FPS but on tom's hardware with the same res its getti... : spector
              • Also ati's in 1 benchmark is getting 44 fps and the gf4 go is getting 84 in yet its about 1/3 or 1/4 the... : spector
              • actually its getting 37fps at the same res, the AA benchmark is just below that one. : Turd Ferguson
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          ok wtf.... this article shows ATI 7500 Quake3 1024x768 at 24FPS http://www.amdmb.com/article-display : Steve Gibson
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            you are comparing non FSAA to FSAA so yes there will be a big difference : Turd Ferguson
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              damn the small print. damn it to hell. : Steve Gibson
              • its tiny print : Turd Ferguson
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              I thought it just said the GF4 had FSAA on? : spector
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                in the benchmark box it says "all tests run on athlon 1.33GHZ 256M Win98SE - AA on : Turd Ferguson
                • hmm, ah well I'll just see what happens. Shacking in bed, sounds good to me! : spector
• Didn't entirely agree with the tone of the article myself. However, the thing to note is that the ATI mo... : Serpico74

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  ati rage 8mb plays CS fine? : spector
  • at 800x600 i get 50-60 fps, with default settings. it doesn't run it as great as my home machine, but... : king_darius

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  can you run CS, that seems to run decent on lower end systems. : Turd Ferguson
  • No, can't run CS. Can only play in software mode, at like 512x384 == suckage. : joejoe55
• Yeah. What I'm currently watching is to see if Dell puts out a GF4Go upgrade board for the Inspiron. T... : drazz
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  No the ATi 7500 is supposted to be a little faster : spector
  • Hmm I am often wrong : spector