[ILUG] Linux Laptop

[ollie at eillo.org]

Still you have to remember that Quake 3 was released in 1999.
Thats 7 years ago . . . 

I actually had FEAR in mind when i said i wanted to play,
as its supposed to be a fantastic game but it does have high 
requirements.

The impression i get is that you should either get intel 
graphics in which case you can only play older games 
or you something really good.

Everything in between is too niether/nor - too good for old 
games, not quite good enough for newest ones.

Something like a Samsung R70 for €1000 at 
laptopsdirect.ie isn’t going to break the bank(too much)

I have considered forgetting about a desktop replacement 
And getting a smaller one for portability but then 
the smaller they get the more expensive they get again 
so I can really win.



On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 02:18:53 +0100 (IST), paul at clubi.ie wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Michael Watterson wrote:
> 
>> But the Intel i915 is useless for 3D 1st person games.
> 
> Uhm, no. When I got my D420 I installed a few FPSers on it just to
> see how true it was that intel graphics are no good for games. They
> all played just fine.
> 
> (Admittedly, they were all Quake3 clones - but AFAIK there've not
> been any substantive changes to how FPSers actually play since
> Quake[1]. I can't really understand the urge to spend 100's on the
> latest graphics card just to enable extra eye-candy - the game plays
> the exact same. The eye-candy is interesting for all of about 5
> minutes.. You might as well just download a high-quality MPEG of
> same, for all it's worth).
> 
>> I thought the OP wanted dual Boot, the MS game console OS & Linux..
>> :-) (I'd put Linux on VM player too so as to have both at same
>> time)
> 
> Yes.
> 
> regards
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