I'm trying to get my father-in-law started on MSFS but only on a laptop since he lives on a boat and has no room for a desktop.I loaded COF onto an older laptop of mine which is a PIII with 256 RAM and only 32 megs on the video card. When I booted up COF the panel looked fine but I was getting all sorts of flashing geometric shapes on the outside view.Basic question is can either COF or 2K2 be made to run on a laptop and what would the minimum specs be on the cpu and video adaptor?THANKS!Jim

Modern laptops/notebooks seem to run FS quite well for their relative horsepower. I recently tried FS out on a Dell 1.7GHz Centrino, 512M RAM PC2700, Intel extreme graphics 64M shared memory notebook and was surprised to see 12-15fps at default KSEA with 100% UT traffic. Turning the traffic down, I was easily able to get above 20FPS.Here's another recent thread discussing the topic:http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...ing_type=searchGary

I used FS9 on a Sony Vaio 1.6Ghz Centrino with an ATI Radeon Mobility 7000 video card and achieved about the same results as Gary did. Now I use an Acer Ferrari notebook with 1gig memory, Mobile AMD64-3000 CPU and a 128mb ATI Radeon 9700 card and get anywhere from 40 to 70FPS depending on location. Unfortunately the Ferrari comes with a 4200RPM hard disk (I know...beats me too!) but after changing that to one of the new Hitachi 7200rpm notebook hard disks most of the slow texture loading issues went away.I use a seperate 17" LCD screen but running FS9 on the notebook screen is quite useable and the performence is better than acceptable. I am very happy with the result.So for someone who wants to use a notebook for FS9 with say the PMDG kit then a AMD64 Mobile Athlon 3000 based notebook is a pretty useful option (at least from my experience).

Thanks for the replies!!!Regards,Jim