I am buying a new laptop for fs9 mostly. i have two laptops in mind, one with an i5-520m another with i7-740qm, and knowing that fs9 runs on a single core, cant decide which one is better for fs9. I would like to know which one can run the sliders maxed out at 20+fps in intensive areas? Because the i5 has higher clock speeds, i am leaning towards it, but i can get a better overall deal on the laptop with an i7.Thanks,Ferras

I am buying a new laptop for fs9 mostly. i have two laptops in mind, one with an i5-520m another with i7-740qm, and knowing that fs9 runs on a single core, cant decide which one is better for fs9. I would like to know which one can run the sliders maxed out at 20+fps in intensive areas? Because the i5 has higher clock speeds, i am leaning towards it, but i can get a better overall deal on the laptop with an i7.Thanks,Ferras

The i7 is quad core + hyperthreading The i5 is quad core (700 series) or dual core (600/500/400 series) some with some without hyperthreading.You are partly correct that fs9 is not designed to run on multi-corebut it does utilise a second core to some 30-50% as the textureload/working is a separate "thread" in the code. Hyperthreading is not useful for FS. My 2pence worth, if you are going for FS9 then I would recommendthe i5- 540, , if you might thing of going towards FSX then probably best to look at the i7-740 or higher.Depends on money of course

Thanks for your input Tom, I think i will go with the i5 with the higher clock speed, and save the i7 for when i can afford a real computer for fsx or flight. I just want to fly the vrs superbug, which my current laptop can't.

a weak processor with a decent *dedicated* video card should work well.a great processor with a shared memory video laptop chances are will not work at all and since you cannot upgrade the video card later it is useless for FS9.