Not sure if you'd be interested in spending this much but several members of the PMDG team run it in Bootcamp mode on 15" Apple MacBook Pros. There's probably some better PC laptops in terms of performance, but none that will come close to the design and build quality you get from the MBP. Most PC "gaming" laptops I've seen are super bulky and have terrible battery life.

Not sure if you'd be interested in spending this much but several members of the PMDG team run it in Bootcamp mode on 15" Apple MacBook Pros. There's probably some better PC laptops in terms of performance, but none that will come close to the design and build quality you get from the MBP. Most PC "gaming" laptops I've seen are super bulky and have terrible battery life.

I bought my brother a MacBook Pro for his music studio, I am ashamed to say I know less about MacBooks then I do about laptops! I guess it's time to start learning, not enough hours in the day!

Just recently I had a new problem playing music videos on iTunes (lagging playback but audio would continue) and I though the HD3000 was the problem again.

 

I've experienced the same sort of stutters in my former laptop I bought around 2 years ago. It stuttered when playing 720p videos on youtube or listening to music on Windows media player. I sent it back to PC world and was told not to put my laptop on my lap(why is called a 'laptop' then?) but use it on a flat surface in order to ease the ventilation for the CPU. They had to replace the CPU since it got damaged due to heat. When using the Laptop on a flat surface now, the stutters seem to have been gone but FSX still runs like crap.

Rob it was everything. gaming to watching a movie. For some reason the laptop wouldnt use the nvidia gtx card for graphics. it was the hd whatever comes with the mother board that it decided to use. Went back to the retailer many times and i tried using the device manager to make windows use the nvidia card but it just wouldnt. Finally decided to start over and it fixed havent had any issues since. From what i could tell and the support people the retailer was a driver issue that was just wierd.

I've experienced the same sort of stutters in my former laptop I bought around 2 years ago. It stuttered when playing 720p videos on youtube or listening to music on Windows media player. I sent it back to PC world and was told not to put my laptop on my lap(why is called a 'laptop' then?) but use it on a flat surface in order to ease the ventilation for the CPU. They had to replace the CPU since it got fried. When using the Laptop on a flat surface now, the stutters seem to have been gone but FSX still runs like crap.

Hmmm ok yes my cpu does seem to get quite hot.

The fan is terribly loud as well when under performance (most likely due to the light and low build)....one more reason I cant recommend a Sony laptop like the model I have for anything other than email or internet :-(

 

Is that possible....a CPU gets fried but still works, but less than optimal?

I thought it would just do nothing then.

If my CPU got fried some time ago and runs less than optimal .....then how do I test that?

Is that possible....a CPU gets fried but still works, but less than optimal?

I thought it would just do nothing then.

If my CPU got fried some time ago and runs less than optimal .....then how do I test that?

 

The engineer that had replaced the cpu didn't exactly say it was 'fried', he used the word 'damaged'

A fried CPU would usually look something like this

 

Asus G74SX 17" screen, all addons, all sliders right, REX, FTXG, UT2, UTX, ASE, solid 30fps, works great. 

 

Cheers Rod.

The engineer that had replaced the cpu didn't exactly say it was 'fried', he used the word 'damaged'

A fried CPU would usually look something like this

 

Ok, checked, thx.

 

Nice pic, hopefully mine looks better than that :-)

Not sure if you'd be interested in spending this much but several members of the PMDG team run it in Bootcamp mode on 15" Apple MacBook Pros. There's probably some better PC laptops in terms of performance, but none that will come close to the design and build quality you get from the MBP. Most PC "gaming" laptops I've seen are super bulky and have terrible battery life.

Like I said Earlier!!! Lol.

Asus G-series, G stands for gaming, 17'', easy to overclock, affordable, runs FSX very good!

Asus G-series, G stands for gaming, 17'', easy to overclock, affordable, runs FSX very good!

I still didn't overclock mine G750JW , i have time for that, of course if i am brave enough LoL

You can expect at least 48% more efficiency compared to 3rd gen Ivy Bridge mobile CPUs.

 

Do you have a source for that? According to all tests around (eg notebookcheck.com CPU benchmarks), the Haswell mobile CPUs are like 10-20% faster than the generation 2 and 3 processors.

Do you have a source for that? According to all tests around (eg notebookcheck.com CPU benchmarks), the Haswell mobile CPUs are like 10-20% faster than the generation 2 and 3 processors.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/has-haswell-really-improved-battery-life/

 

Read the first paragraph.

Rob it was everything. gaming to watching a movie. For some reason the laptop wouldnt use the nvidia gtx card for graphics. it was the hd whatever comes with the mother board that it decided to use. Went back to the retailer many times and i tried using the device manager to make windows use the nvidia card but it just wouldnt. Finally decided to start over and it fixed havent had any issues since. From what i could tell and the support people the retailer was a driver issue that was just wierd.

Ok, and did you reinstall from the eeeeh.....what do you call it.....laptops original/reinstall backup image that came with it on its HDD, or did you download all the required drivers seperately and install from Win7 CD?

 

I am thinking that a reinstall from the original image might not change anything since it will install the same way as the first time.

One has to be carefull with statements like that.

I have a desktop i7 3770k CPU overclocked to 4.5Ghz with a GTX680 top dog (1 year ago) graphics card, and I dont achieve 50fps all the way!

 

It depends what you mean with all the way too.

On default FSX airports, sure no problem.

But around detailed addon airports with detailed weather (cloud) addon, etc etc...no way!

 

@FLEX1978

if all you want to do is surprise your dad with a laptop and as a bonus, show him what FSX with PMDG 777 looks like while sitting at the ramp. Sure, fine, any laptop can do that.

 

But add some nice scenery products and start flying that 777 and you WILL get a slideshow with a low spec laptop! (just like a low spec desktop by the way)

 

i only fly on addon scenery