My New Laptop... all £200 of it....

xan · Senior Member

My New Laptop... all £200 of it....

Barak Varr · Senior Member

lol nice laptop, some parts of it seem better than this computer >.< =P

Bethlen · Veteran Member

Damn, that's a small one! =D

Jacob Ecer · Senior Member

Eww...Linux...

xan · Senior Member

And you all laughed at my mad idea biggrin

Its actually playable, ive seen worse! Wouldnt fancy actually trying to play a game with it mind. Only niggle I can see is the game does not support the 800x480 resolution of the screen so it lops off the top bit (Actually it doesent you can scroll the screen up to see it, but you loose the bottom then!)

Any other challenges.... and no im not trying a certain DX10 demo on it smile

Oh and its running Windows XP btw, runs fantastic, boots up in about 20 seconds, 4 hours out of battery, got office 2003 on there, all windows updates, few apps I use, all the things I need for work, and still have 1.5GB free on the onboard disk. My 8GB SD card has turned up so ive used that for storage of my documents, also put ZSNES on there and it runs fantasticly!

Anyways its living upto my expectations and more, next task is to get a screwdriver to it and replace that 512mb chip with a 2gb one......

-- Edited by xan at 23:49, 2007-11-19

Bethlen · Veteran Member

Well, xan, that's just what I'm dreaming about. Being able to bring the computer with me everywhere, without any problems and using wireless internet connection and placing myself in a nice place and play GW ^^

Barak Varr · Senior Member

i really did laugh when i saw that picture =D and it still looked like your ping was better than mine =P

seems like a great little laptop for only being £200

hmm, because of its size i would love to see a picture of you hunched over it using that tiny keyboard =D

Ive also just realised what you've changed your 'title' (as the forum describes it) thingy to =D

-- Edited by Barak Varr at 20:23, 2007-11-20

Bethlen · Veteran Member

Did it really take you this long to see that, furn? :O =D

xan · Senior Member

Barak Varr wrote:
Ive also just realised what you've changed your 'title' (as the forum describes it) thingy to =D

Ya and its only the start now I know what to change biggrin

(Sningers and insists you look to the left of your posts....)

Ill try to get a picture of me attempting to play guildwars on it, should be amusing, be interesting to see what the fps is like on it! Some of the people on its forums are having fun playing command and conquer and such like on it, say its great for last generation games.

I played around with it and got 500mb free from the windows install files yesterday, now upto 2gb free on the onboard storage, 1.5gb in use, which isent bad considering thats XP, with all its updates, IE7, and everything else that comes with it. Moved Office 2003 onto the SD card (Its a 60x card and runs everything at alarming speed), along with most other apps that I can, including temporary files etc. Still amazed with the speed of it.

Ive been carrying it around at work, and everyone whos seen it (Pretty much everyone) has wanted to play on it, so far around 6 people want one for xmas!

-- Edited by xan at 09:39, 2007-11-24

Barak Varr · Senior Member

xan wrote:

Barak Varr wrote:
Ive also just realised what you've changed your 'title' (as the forum describes it) thingy to =D
Ya and its only the start now I know what to change (Sningers and insists you look to the left of your posts....)

Gee thanks =P

lol, would still rater get a PS3 for xmas though ^.^

Jacob Ecer · Senior Member

You do reliaze that the ps3 sucks right now? Theres only like 7 good games for it (of their exclusives but ps3's orange box is supposed to suck hard).

Barak Varr · Senior Member

PS3 only sucks as much as you think it does...usually get into this argument with a lad at school as well =)

Currently theres only one main game that I want for the PS3 (Assassin's Creed) and although you can also get it on the 360, i want the PS3 for other games when they are released (Mainly MGS4, DMC4, and FF)

Jacob Ecer · Senior Member

mgs4 is actually supposed to go on the 360 as well. And Squaresoft (i don't call it squareenix) is whoring out ffXIII as they have made 3 different versions for it. Btw assassin's creed is also out for the pc i believe. DMC also has sort of been declining since DMC2 then again none of sequels will be as good as the original.

Btw heres a link for the top ten ps3 games http:/www.gametrailers.com/player/27842.html

Barak Varr · Senior Member

MGS4 fair enough, FF id rather have 3 well made games rather than Square-Enix try and push everything into one game, assassins creed on PC...well you know what this computers like =P and ive enjoyed all of the DMC games so far

Jacob Ecer · Senior Member

well the 3 ff games are supposed to be well the normal type, an action one in the vein of ffVII dirge of cereburus (which sucked I might add) and a moblie phone version which i think you can imagine probably won't be much of a good game.

Enough of this bickering though and when did you become xan's whipping boy?!

xan · Senior Member

When I came to replace the PS2, the thing that put me off the PS3 was its lack of games, and the sheer cost of them. They seem to be coming down now, but for example Ass Creed (Which btw is a excellent game) was £39 on the 360, and £49 on the PS3.... WHY?!..... im sorry its the same game.... your paying for the sony badge and the bluray technology.

Im a big fan of sony, never got a xbox due to the "microsoft" badge on it, but im afraid to say they have got it right with the 360, even from the start, a budget model and the full blown, ability to upgrade.... as for the games they are well priced in comparison and theres a good range of budget titles even when new, for instance the new Lego Star Wars you can get for £29.

Graphics wise etc, I think the PS3 has more potential, but im sorry the 360 looks awesome on the 42" in hi-def, cant fault it at all, creed really makes you go "wow" at 1080 (Yup got the elite so I get full HDMI)

Anyways im not slating the PS3, im sure it will have its day, but right now, I think its way overpriced (Games more than console now) with not enough games yet, but my biggest gripe is £50 for a new game, who they kiddin! A new game on the PC is only £29!!!!

Xan

-- Edited by xan at 09:20, 2007-11-25

Barak Varr · Senior Member

the price of games on amazon and play are £39 (nearly always buy things online now =) ) but assassins creed is still £2 more on PS3.

But either way, ive got a 40gb PS3 with Assassin's Creed on its way to me.

Oh and if you want a little chuckle look at Eye of Judgement on PS3, might not be a great game but its a nice idea behind hit (made me think of the mini game in FF8 (Triple Triad) mixed with Yu-Gi-Oh =D)

Jacob Ecer · Senior Member

eye of judgement actually seems like a good card battle game (this comes a surprise to me)

Barak Varr · Senior Member

i really liked the idea behind EoJ but i saw a reveiw on tv for it and it seemed too short and having to pay extra for new cards is a bit of a shame, might be a good online thing though (not sure if it has)