New Rig

[scon]

Well for the last month or more I have been in the market for a new laptop, mainly for school to replace my crappy old Toshiba Portege A100. Initially this was not going to be a gaming computer to replace my current computer, but as time went on I decided to try and get the most out of the new laptop. So it had to be a 15 inch screen or smaller, and be very durable.

So looking around I went through HP, Asus, got really close to getting a Toshiba Tecra M9, (have been told my many people that Dell New Zealand is rubbish) but eventually and today ordered a IBM (now Lenovo) ThinkPad T61. It should be here in about 5 days.

So even though this was not really designed to be a replacement for my FS computer, it may now be a better rig than my current.

So I will let the specs talk, and you guys tell me what you would use,

However FS(X) will not go from my desktop , this is merely to see which one would run it better.


IBM Thinkpad T61

Windows Vista Business downgraded to Windows XP Pro

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Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 - 2.2GHz

Memory (Ram) "“ 2GB at 667MHz, DDR2

Hard Drive "“ 100GB (expandable to 220GB)

Graphics Card "“ nVidia Quadro 128MB


Now for my current set-up


Hp Pavilion

Windows XP Home

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Intel P4 Hyper Threading - 3.0GHz

Memory (Ram) "“ 2GB, DDR2

Hard Drive "“ 144GB

Graphics Card "“ nVidia 7600GS 256MB


Both of them then have all the sound card e.t.c which I can't be bothers writing up.


So what do you think?



Regards, Scott

[HardCorePawn]

It'll probably be a fairly close thing... but I think the desktop will still win out...

mainly because I'm not sure if the 128meg laptop video is going to be able to keep up with the 7600... even if it is only a GS model...

Also, I'll assume your desktop has a 7200rpm HDD, the laptop is likely to only be 5400rpm... but if the laptop is a SATA model and desktop is IDE, it may even itself out...

The CPU in the laptop is likely faster (despite lower speed rating), but as FSX is not optimised for multicores, the difference may not be as large as the specs would suggest...