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Postby cowpatz » Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:52 am

Can anyone recommend a good laptop for flight simming? It would most likely be for FS9 but I would probably put FSX on later.
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Postby Ian Warren » Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:10 am

Send PM to Blake aka (Waka172) hes running FSX on laptop with good results .
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Postby NZ255 » Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:01 pm

Is this to take on the real flights? biggrin.gif

Could you actually do that?
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Postby cowpatz » Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:27 pm

Yes and sure could! My laptop is a little long in the tooth now. Thought that I would upgrade. What better time to flight sim when stuck in a hotel room.
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Postby Ian Warren » Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:45 pm

Blake was running his in multiplay from Papua PNG with limited coms , his screens come out well thumbup1.gif
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Postby brownbox » Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:54 am

a laptop shouldnt be any problem. Be expecting to dig deep in the old pockets though.
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