I am searching on the net for reviews etc, unfortunately all gaming sites only benchmark and review the latest laptops for Doom etc.. not Fs9. So, which laptops do simmers love? Yes, I have heard the new Dell XPS 2 is phenomenal yet it only has a P4M 2.0 gZ processor. What's with that? How can it be any good to compare with all the other laptops that offer P4 3.0+ GZs? Also, I have a P4 3.0 with 1 GIG and Radeon 9800 pro desktop, how would simming on a new laptop that is powerful compare to that? Help! thanks!!

Don't just go by raw figures, alone....I have an IBM ThinkPad model T40 Pentium Mobile 1.5 GHz running on the Intel Mobile 855 chipset, and believe it or not, FS2004 runs at 25 FPS (1024x768) using the internal ATI Radeon 7500 chip set no problem.I was so surprised by this, and have not 'looked back', lol.I use AS2004.5 with FS2004 and get great graphics!!!! (I always use the latest Omega drivers). You can buy a T40/42/43 model well appointed for around $1500.00 no problem.Cheers!Mitch R.

I'm employee of a worldwide top brand company that produces laptops.And I must say there's not a single I could recommend. Ditto with all other manufacturers.The reason is that laptops demand low power consumption to extend battery life, and to make them not too hot.That's why only 2nd tier components are used (weak CPUs, lower end graphics, small hard drives etc.).Relatively good equipped laptops cost a #### of a lot of money, but even they cannot compete with a mid-range PC system in any means.For the same money, you get a top notch PC where FS runs so smooth that laptop users can only dream of such performance.And bear in mind that core laptop hardware is not upgradeable (no new CPU, no better graphics adapter). And everything you buy for the laptop is more expensive than the same for a PC (sound card, network,...).If you need a gaming machine, a laptop is definitely not the thing. Except you're ready for tradeoffs...Andreas

FS9 flies.. literally on this -http://www.rockdirect.com/notebooks/xtremeti_cons.htm

Andreas wrote:>I'm employee of a worldwide top brand company that produces>laptops.>And I must say there's not a single I could recommend. Ditto>with all other manufacturers.Amen to that, Andreas. Amen.Peter, if you want a laptop for wireless surfing., digital image backup on vacation, or wordprocessing/spreadsheets on-the-go, by all means get one. Just bottom-feed: spend no more than US$600 for a low-end Dell inspiron or Compaq special. Use it for two to three years, sell it for $300-400 on Ebay, lather, rinse, repeat.If you insist on running fs9 on the laptop, lower all the detail sliders & have fun. But return to the desktop for a serious flightsim experience.

>I am searching on the net for reviews etc, unfortunately all>gaming sites only benchmark and review the latest laptops for>Doom etc.. not Fs9. So, which laptops do simmers love? Yes, I>have heard the new Dell XPS 2 is phenomenal yet it only has a>P4M 2.0 gZ processor. What's with that? How can it be any good>to compare with all the other laptops that offer P4 3.0+ GZs?>Also, I have a P4 3.0 with 1 GIG and Radeon 9800 pro desktop,>how would simming on a new laptop that is powerful compare to>that? Help! thanks!!>This has been recently discussed in detail in the following thread:http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho..._id=6831&page=2In short, the P-M (not P4M) easily hands a P4 3.0GHz CPU a spanking in the FS performance department and the 6800 Go/Ultra of the Dell 9300/XPS2 gives plenty of grunt for FS graphics. Laptops/notebooks perform much better in the graphics/gaming department than they used to.Gary

My Dell D800 1.7M 1 GB Mem 64MB 4200 Go WUXGA 15" Display is my sole FS platform. It's not a top performer, but I get 15-24 FPS consistently, mostly between 20-24 with the planes I fly, which tend to mostly be DF Archer, Aerosoft Beaver, B377 Strat, and new PAD DHC-8. I'm very happy with it, and the fact that it can go everywhere with me is great. I get about 2 hours on the battery running FS (but mostly run plugged in), twice that watching movies and the like. My biggest problem now is small disk size, on 40 GB, and FS is now taking almost 20 of that. I don't know how, but I'm going to have to reduce that, or get a bigger drive.Definately get a DVD writer option.The Pentium M processors are very fast. This machine replaced a 2 GHz P4 Dell C840 (Dell lost it when I sent it in for repair, so they sent me this one).ThomasN15802KASH