I'm Getting a Laptop!

Wutai · Post by **Wutai** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:18 pm

Yeah, I am... ...in about three years.

I have found one at Walmart for $550 that I plan to buy.

It has like, a 40 gb hard drive, and it says it has a powerful 3D graphics engine.

I saw another that I thought about buying for $600. It was a desktop.
It had a 64mb nVidia graphics card.

Since my parents will only get me items that cost in total $100 or lower for Christmas, and $50 or lower for my birthday, and considering that I make about $5 a month doing chores, It's gonna take awhile to get either one.

I plan to buy one only for playing FPSs such as Call of Duty, Battlefield 1942, and the Unreal Tournament games. What is another computer that could play those games with decent visual settings that isn't over $600?

Also, what's the difference between a graphics card and a graphics engine?

spideyspiderman2000 · Post by **spideyspiderman2000** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:11 am

Awesome! I want a laptop. I've got enough money, but I've been saving up for other stuff.

Post by **JS Lemming** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:48 am

I'd say the graphics card is the hardware and the graphics engine is the software that runs with the hardware.

BTW, why the heck to people call games like that "FPSs"???? That stands for Frames Per Second doesn't it????

Post by **Falco Girgis** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:08 am

Are you sure you read that right? Graphics card with 3D engine? WTF?

Anyway, that sounds awesome. You definately wanna go with the laptop without the integrated video card. If it mentions Nvidia, Radeon, GForce, those are good.

But if it has some sort of generic, no-name video card, don't touch it. You can't upgrade integrated cards.

Don Pwnious · Post by **Don Pwnious** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:33 am

In about two years i will be getting an alienware for college. But i do have to pay for half of it.

Wutai · Post by **Wutai** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:13 pm

JS Lemming, FPSs stands for first person shooters.

Also, I got Firefox, and I have chosen not to buy the laptop, but instead the desktop.

spideyspiderman2000 · Post by **spideyspiderman2000** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 4:10 pm

Not a bad choice.