Dell Inspiron 9100 XPS

[h4vvok]

I am getting one of these laptops soon an was wondering how well they are for gaming....here are the specs of the one I am getting:
3ghz Pentium 4 w/Hyperthreading
512mb ram
60gb 7200 rpm hd
ATI Radeon Mobility 9700 Pro 64mb version
4x (I think) DVD burner
....could this run most of the newer games?...

 

[WhiteZero]

Your going to want to avoid P4's in laptops if you care about battery life at all. Go with a Centrino setup which uses the Pentium-M. You'll go from having an hour of battery life to having 4-5 hours. P4-M's that are at 1.8gHZ run as fast as a P4-HT 3.0 because the M's have 4x the cache.
Read about Centrino here: http://www.powernotebooks.com/centrino.php

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They have great prices and a perfect track record on Reseller Ratings. You get alot of bang for your buck.

 

[h4vvok]

That wasn't what I was asking....I don't care much about battery life, this one lasts about 4 hours or more (I bought 2 batteries)....I am merely wondering if it would perform well in Halflife 2, WoW, Doom 3, Far Cry, etc...in 1024x768 with no aa or af or that crap

 

[WhiteZero]

Hmmm...with that Video Card you should be OK playing on a Medium Quality setting.

 

[h4vvok]

Sweet...think I will be ok with 512 ram too? might upgrade that..

 

[WhiteZero]

It should run OK on 512, but 1024 couldent hurt.