Laptops?

[Zaukrie]

My son wants to buy a laptop. While he doesn't play many games requiring great video power today, I'd guess that will change in the next year or two....

I'm aiming for less than $800, so high end video cards on the laptops put a lot of them out of range. But, Acer just a new Aspire, and it is at a great price:

# 4GB DDR3-1066 RAM
# NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 130M

The 130M looks like it runs many games well, but do any of you know how it might run games that require a lot of video processing? It looks borderline...

 

[Thanee]

This site might be helpful to check for GFX ability...

Notebookcheck: NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

Bye
Thanee

 

[Zaukrie]

Thanks, helpful site.

As I expected, it's on the border for running on high settings.

 

[drothgery]

My son wants to buy a laptop. While he doesn't play many games requiring great video power today, I'd guess that will change in the next year or two....

Don't worry about graphics. Buy a console in 2012 or 2013 when the Xbox 720 / PS4 / WiiHD becomes available.

 

[Zaukrie]

Thanks for the advice. I went to notebookcheck and they say that graphics card isn't as good as the gt130. I actually spotted that laptop today myself!