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Original post by gamegod3001 With a budget of $1000 (slightly more after paying for shipping) what labtop manufactures and specfic notebooks are recomended if I'm looking to be able to run 1. Visual Studio.net 2005 2. XP Pro (vista maybe in the future 3. Linux (ubuntu most likly) 4. Unreal Tournament 2005 at a resonable setting. in a previous thread someone asked I belive someone mentioned something about the fact that companies such as dell actuly buy the labtop from another manufacture.

For those requirements, I'd recommend against a laptop if you can.

For something with the computing power and graphics power for "reasonable" UT2005, you're going to be spending a lot more than $1000. Between getting a good graphics card and avoiding "shared graphics memory", you won't be buying from Dell.

If all you wanted was VS2005, you'll be spending the $1000 mostly on getting enough memory for the beast. I end up having a memory working set of around 1.5 GB total when I get into the groove.

Dual-boot on a laptop is similar to dual-boot on a PC; you end up focusing on one and almost never the other. They're rarely worth it.

For the same amount of money, you could get a desktop that would meet those requirements. (Assuming you already have a good monitor and other externals.)

Consider a Centrino Duo processor and at least 1G memory. Gateway has some nice ones, but they're a little more than $1000.

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Original post by gamegod3001 With a budget of $1000 (slightly more after paying for shipping) what labtop manufactures and specfic notebooks are recomended if I'm looking to be able to run 1. Visual Studio.net 2005 2. XP Pro (vista maybe in the future 3. Linux (ubuntu most likly) 4. Unreal Tournament 2005 at a resonable setting. in a previous thread someone asked I belive someone mentioned something about the fact that companies such as dell actuly buy the labtop from another manufacture.

Laptop. With a p. P. Not b.

Think, does labtop make any sense? The answer to this question is no. A laptop is not a computer placed on top of a laboratory.

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Original post by gamegod3001 4. Unreal Tournament 2005 at a resonable setting.

OMG Hax, how'd you warez that stuff being unreleased and all?

I'm quite fond of HP laptops.

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Original post by frob For those requirements, I'd recommend against a laptop if you can. For something with the computing power and graphics power for "reasonable" UT2005, you're going to be spending a lot more than $1000. Between getting a good graphics card and avoiding "shared graphics memory", you won't be buying from Dell.

I am also building a desktop, however I want something portable to bring with me to class and to take home on breaks since I'll be taking the bus.
Ok, how about if I simply want to be able to play the orginal Unreal Tournament, Combat Flight Simulator, and maybe morrowind.

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If all you wanted was VS2005, you'll be spending the $1000 mostly on getting enough memory for the beast. I end up having a memory working set of around 1.5 GB total when I get into the groove.

Well since my school currently is a big fan of emacs will using emacs (on primarly windows) be a beter choice? It will be for examples, not large progams.

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Dual-boot on a laptop is similar to dual-boot on a PC; you end up focusing on one and almost never the other. They're rarely worth it.

More or less I'll be running windows however I want to be able duel boot to linux and I know that linux is finicky about laptops and wanted to which ones it is least finicky about.

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Original post by eedok Quote: Original post by gamegod3001 4. Unreal Tournament 2005 at a resonable setting. OMG Hax, how'd you warez that stuff being unreleased and all? I'm quite fond of HP laptops.

Your post makes no real sence. You do know that you can plan your hardware for software that is still being developed right? Why do you think games needing a given level are released AFTER graphics cards and stuff of that level? No one buys software and waits a few years for companies to release the hardware to run it :P

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Original post by Talroth Quote: Original post by eedok Quote: Original post by gamegod3001 4. Unreal Tournament 2005 at a resonable setting. OMG Hax, how'd you warez that stuff being unreleased and all? I'm quite fond of HP laptops. Your post makes no real sence. You do know that you can plan your hardware for software that is still being developed right? Why do you think games needing a given level are released AFTER graphics cards and stuff of that level? No one buys software and waits a few years for companies to release the hardware to run it :P

Dude, it's 2006.

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Original post by gamegod3001 More or less I'll be running windows however I want to be able duel boot to linux and I know that linux is finicky about laptops and wanted to which ones it is least finicky about.

The most common problem with laptops in this regard is buggy/nonstandard BIOS or ACPI implementations, and there are some workarounds for this. The most ridiculous case I've heard of is a 64-bit ASUS laptop that couldn't even boot a 64 bit Windows! Of course ASUS could not be bothered to provide a fix either..

There are two areas where Linux support for laptops is in a rather sorry state: suspend/hibernation and 3d support. In most cases you can get one of these to work at a time. The problem with the first is, AFAIK, that most Linux drivers were originally written when Linux did not support software suspending at all. The issue with the latter is that the latest 3d drivers from ATI and NVIDIA are proprietary and cannot be fixed by the community to support certain hardware combinations and software suspend properly.

Wireless cards work when drivers are available. There is also a solution to use Windows drivers for certain cards. This works adequately for some but quite poorly for others. GUI configuration tools for wireless devices are not as good as they should be. The entire wireless architecture in the Linux kernel is being refactored at the moment. In the mean time there will be a lot of inconsistency in setting up wireless devices.


Pick a laptop that you like, then go here to see how easy it is to put Linux on it. Google helps too.

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Original post by Ravuya Quote: Original post by Talroth Quote: Original post by eedok Quote: Original post by gamegod3001 4. Unreal Tournament 2005 at a resonable setting. OMG Hax, how'd you warez that stuff being unreleased and all? I'm quite fond of HP laptops. Your post makes no real sence. You do know that you can plan your hardware for software that is still being developed right? Why do you think games needing a given level are released AFTER graphics cards and stuff of that level? No one buys software and waits a few years for companies to release the hardware to run it :P Dude, it's 2006.

Dude, DNF isn't the only game to miss its release date(s). (last I heard, UT05 wasn't actually being released) DNF just didn't put a year in their name.