Limited quantities because is last year's model,

Probably will run out tonight or tomorrow.

Sold by Adorama on eBay

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-Z70-17-3-Laptop-Intel-Core-i5-5200U-8GB-RAM-1TB-HDD-Windows-8-1-/331755145451?hash=item4d3e25c8eb:g:CR8AAOSwuYVWnEAU

 

Lenovo Z70 laptop (last years model)

 

17" screen

 

Nividia 840M 2GB dedicated vid card (this year's model has 940M)

 

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-940M-vs-GeForce-840M

 

1TB HDD

8GB memory

Windows 8.1 (this year's model has Win10).

 

Obviously won't run FSX very well at all (few laptops will).

Will do FS9.

 

$579 no tax, no shipping charge.

 

p.s. the 840M is slightly slower than the 940M,

and runs slightly hotter (a little more watts of heat).

 

Some Amazon pages on these laptops:

http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-17-3-Inch-Laptop-Windows-80FG00DBUS/dp/B012B6YQF0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1453349350&sr=8-1&keywords=lenovo+z70

 

15" model, this years, Dell version with i7 cpu

http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Inspiron-i7-4510U-Processor-Bluetooth/dp/B01A9H3SLG%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAI62SSPLIHX7AR6PA%26tag%3Dgpuboss-4-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB01A9H3SLG

Laptops will run FSX quite well. I have been running various versions of Microsoft flightsim since 2003 on laptops.

 

Another option might be to pick up one slightly used. There are individuals who upgrade frequently and what they have moved from is still good.

 

A little while ago there was a fellow on the AVSIM forum selling an Alienware 14", I7-4900, 2 gigs NVidia card (cant remember which one), etc. was a nice machine. I believe he was asking $900 US. Don't know if it sold or what he may have got for it.

 

I have the same thing with an I7-3840 (max 3.8), NVidia 650 2gig, 8 gigs ram....and it still runs fsx fine. I'm upgrading to an MSI gt72s with I7-6820, nvida980 etc. I'm keeping my 14" as it's still such a great machine and so portable.

 

Have a look around. It might be a way to get a really nice machine for quite reasonable $$.

 

Dave

I had a laptop for fs9, Mtech (a real bargain brand in those days, they still make some of the best gaming laptops). But it wasn't strong enough to run FSX. Neither is this cheap one I linked to, but it will run FS9 perfectly which is why I am buying it. My game machine is a desktop, just want to fly around a bit on the go with a laptop.

 

FS9 is great for quick fun, since it boots and loads fast on a cheap machine with an SSD HD. And FS9 is still a good sim!

I hear you....i've got a desktop for gaming at home. Main reason I'm upgrading the laptop is I'm retiring this year and need to buy it while still working. I've found buying the most horsepower you can at time of purchase usually results in a longer usefull life for the laptop. I used to travel for months at a time for work so having the laptop for gaming was great.

It would be a great idea, except when I'm "on the go", I usually don have/take flight sim controls with me....

At home ive got the Saitek X65. Had it for years...robust, still as tight and accurate as when i got it.

 

When travelling i have a logiteck extreme one piece stick with twist grip and single throttle.....just wrap it up in some clothes and so far its survived. They're so inexpensive if it fot damaged its okay.

Is the Logitech Extreme 3D able to shift all the hat and buttons with a shift button?

I 'need' both a look around hat (panning), and a hat to set eyelevel (move view straight up and down or left right without panning).

With CH controllers you can push the shift key to change the hat to temporarily have an entirely different functions.

To move eyelevel you need right , left, up, down, in , out: a lot of buttons, but just one hat can take care of it.

But I suppose I could re asign FSX to use simple keys to that instead of having to use junk like controlShiftBackspace. And then I could just use the keyboard to move eyepoint.

It has a hat for view panning, buttons that are programable, twist grip for rudder, single throttle.....really it's a pretty good stick. I've used one when travelling for years.