Hi everyone, I am fed up of my laptop being so crap, so I am buying a new one. Just wondering if this is a good laptop for fs2004 with all settings on high and traffic and scenery. Sorry it must be a laptop as I like carrying around my sim with me. Will it run the Airsimmer A320 family well?!http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw...gory_oid=-27749Does anyone recomend any brands as well?Thank you Alexei Butterwick :( :(

Hi everyone, I am fed up of my laptop being so crap, so I am buying a new one. Just wondering if this is a good laptop for fs2004 with all settings on high and traffic and scenery. Sorry it must be a laptop as I like carrying around my sim with me. Will it run the Airsimmer A320 family well?!http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw...gory_oid=-27749Does anyone recomend any brands as well?Thank you Alexei Butterwick :( :(

I can suggest buying an Acer Travelmate 800 if the laptop is OK to be oldish. if not, buy a brand new HP coz they have decent graphics cards

I also use a laptop as I work at sea and I can't carry a desktop from ship to ship every few months.For the last year now I have been using an Alienware m15x with the following specs:15.4" 1440x900 displayIntel Core 2 Duo T9500 2.5Ghz CPU2GB RAMNvidia Geforce 8800M GTX 512MB GPU2x 200GB 7200RPM SATA HDDs.It was expensive for a laptop when I got it this time last year, but it's been pretty much the perfect laptop for FS. I can run FS9 with all setting maxed out, with complex airport sceneries (e.g. FlyTampa, FSDT, Cloud9, etc), complex aircraft (PMDG, Level D et al), real world weather via ASV6 or ASA, with stacks of AI aircraft, as well as ATC from PFE and FS Flight Keeper running in the background... and this laptop doesn't miss a beat! I've also managed to get it to run FSX very well too, with most sliders well to the right and maintaining decent framerates.What laptops are available depends on where you live. I live in the UK so my choices are a quite limited - only Alienware, Rock and Dell provide really high spec gaming laptops in this country. If you are in the US then your choices are much better, and so are the prices!

I have a HP Pavilion laptop, which somewhat amazingly actually runs FSX really well, and that's on a built-in graphics card too. I actually bought it to use with Photoshop when I am on site training people, so that was the real consideration for buying it, but it was a pleasant surprise to find it capable of running FSX so well. I think a lot of that is due to the fact that it has Vista on it rather than XP. If you want to run FS9 on a laptop, you might consider looking for one that has XP on it, since that is adequate for the purpose and would probably drop the purchase price a bit. XP-equipped laptops are harder to find new these days, but there are still some out there.The big deal is RAM, that HP one of mine came with 2 Gigs of very fast RAM. 2 Gigs is fairly common on laptops these days, but the speed of that RAM in particular is something to watch out for, as adding RAM to laptops is more of a pain in the &@($* and usually more expensive too.The other thing to watch out for is whether the graphics support pixel shader 2. My HP does not and it is a limitation with things other than FS, so if you have in mind to use your laptop for other modern stuff such as flashy first person shooter games, that's something to consider.Al

i also run my "mobile" FS9 on a high-end laptop w/ no problems. Main specs:Intel DuoCore T9800 @ 2.93Ghz4 Gigs DDR3 Ram (windows XP pro, so 1 gig wasted)Nvidia FX3700 with 1 Gig VRAM (supports all latest shaders, Directx10, etc, and you never have to worry about textures overloading)17" screen running at 1920x1200 res (when using FS9 at home, i can also output to a second 1920x1200 apple 23" cinema display for GPS, gauges, etc)this laptop eats up FS9 for lunch. I get an average of 65fps in almost all cases, dropping to around 45fps in heavy clouds. All setting maxed, 100% AI, running complex planes such as the ATR, complex airports, overcast, etc. The fps never drops below 45...it's smooth as silk. Btw, this laptop can also eat up games like Oblivion, Fallout 3, GTA4, etc. for lunch as well. You can enjoy all current games on max. I love my mobile FS9. I always pack a Logitech Extreme pro whenever i travel for business. Nothing beats watching Air Crash Investigations, enjoying room service, and playing FS9 all awhile in a nice hotel in Shanghai or Tokyo :)ps. Something like this will cost you though - about double the price you pay for a Desktop w/ similar specs :( -feng

I love my mobile FS9. I always pack a Logitech Extreme pro whenever i travel for business. Nothing beats watching Air Crash Investigations, enjoying room service, and playing FS9 all awhile in a nice hotel in Shanghai or Tokyo :)

You can't be serious. I have seen walk-in closets that are bigger than most hotel rooms in Tokyo! Cramped, but not "nice".Re: the laptop, Alexei the specs you mentioned seems adequate for FS9. Personally I use a Qosmio, but that's probably more power than you need for FS9 (I run Acceleration).

Would you recomend a Apple laptop?Or how about this one:http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw...p;category_oid=Could someone possible look over PC world in the UK and find a laptop that would do all I said for FS2004, preferably under 1000 pounds. Sorry for that its just that I have no clue about specs etc, but I want it to be worth the money. If someone could post the URL that would be great. Hope anyone doesn't mind doing that.Thanks for your helpAlexei :(

You can't be serious. I have seen walk-in closets that are bigger than most hotel rooms in Tokyo! Cramped, but not "nice".

plenty of nice hotels in tokyo that are not closets...but i know what you mean :)i stayed at this on earlier in March...and what a view!-feng

Any other laptops?Alexei :( :(

Unfortunately I don't think you will find a laptop that will run FS9 loaded down with lots of addons for under

Unfortunately I don't think you will find a laptop that will run FS9 loaded down with lots of addons for under

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I looked at the rock laptops they look pretty nice, so wondering whether you can show me one on the website which is perfect for fs2004 with add-ons etchttp://www.rockdirect.com/viewNotebook.php...me=XTREME%20780Alexei :( :(

How about the apple laptops, thinking the 15" oneAlexei