wtb/laptap help

http://eq.magelo.com/profile/1432592 · Post by **Eatmice23** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:08 pm

looking for a great laptop that can handle playing two chars on it with all graphics on if able. Looking to buy one if one of you make them or what to focus on buying and the parts i'll need. throw down some help here if ya can or contact info if your a pc/laptop builder.

Post by **Noircogi** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:04 pm

My advice would be to use a desktop for gaming and a laptop for e-mail....

Edit: Adding more detail about why this is so.

Laptops are fundamentally bound by something called "TDP". Thermal Design Power.
The package can only disapate so much heat. That limits everything significantly.

http://courses.washington.edu/mengr485/ ... basics.pdf

There's just no way that a laptop which can use at most say 50W will be competitve with a desktop at 500W.

A good GPU alone is 250W. Sure you can turn the voltages and clock way down to fit the TDP but the performance will suffer dramatically.

The reason laptops are not vastly worse is because the power consumption goes up by approximately the square of frequency since both voltage and frequency are normally scaled together.

The other problem with laptops is that you end up buying a new display and keyboard every generation, normally of much lower quality than the 24" 1920x1200 LCDs which have been standard for the last six years or so on desktops. Someday, 30" 2560x1600 will probably be mainstream, but until then, you can stick with the same monitor for several generations of PC.

http://eq.magelo.com/profile/1432592 · Post by **Eatmice23** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:07 pm

Ah, that sucks =/ thanks for the info man. Im just looking for a portable way to play eq. incase i want to play on the road or in my bed. oh well.

Alsmack · Post by **Alsmack** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:05 am

Laptops that come with "switchable graphics" and a discrete graphics card won't be too bad... but again you'll be sacrificing weight and battery life to have that option all the time, but at least the switchable graphics alleviates a lot of the battery life issues.

Post by **Zargut** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 2:33 am

Go buy a $398 acer laptop at walmart, mine came with dual core pentium, and 4 gigs of ram and wireless internet reciever. I 2 box and skype on it just fine, it has a 500 gig hard drive and a dvd player/cd burner, intel graphics, and a sweet touchpad and I bought a carry case that came with a wireless mouse that has a tiny usb reciever for like 20 bucks also at walmart. , It has external speaker and microphone jacks for a headset, and a built in speakers and microphone, web cam and numberpad. It has external monitor jack (vga?) catv port and 2 external usb ports. It goes almost 3 hours on a battery charge and I also bought the little usb powered laptop cooling pad which might drain the battery a little but I only use that really when its plugged in. For the money I doubt you can find a better way to play eq, only drawback is its a 15.6 inch lcd monitor but again for the money and for playing eq on the go, I think its awesome. Really good deal for $400.00

Tug

Post by **Chicoian** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 6:30 am

I play on a Dell studio which runs everything great. I payed a bit more than tug did, but I love it. It has a pentium I5 and windows 7 with 4 gigs of ram and an integrated video card that works awesome for EQ even 2 boxing.

http://eq.magelo.com/profile/1432592 · Post by **Eatmice23** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:12 pm

interesting!

Post by **Iane_Blaidd** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 2:45 pm

have to agree with Noir and Alsmack; laptops were not really designed to run EQ let alone 2 accounts. However with that said you still can. A desktop is always going to be better so i would suggest both if you can afford it. the desktop when you dont need portable and the laptop when you do.

Tug suggested that cheaper Acer @ wal-mart. I had to buy 12 of these (prob diff model) to set up a wireless network at a clients so far they all like them but complain they are a bit slow (duh they are a store bought laptop they are always going to be slower then a custom built PC).

Memory, graphic card, and process speed (to a lesser degree) are the most important imho for your needs do some reseach and do not get one with less then 4gb of ram