Laptops and FS X

[Troy 0]

Hey Guys,

I am looking at possibly buying a laptop and was wondering if they are any good with running FS X. I assume that if they run FS X then they will run FS 9.

Does anybody have any opinions or ideas, or should I just get a new desktop PC........thought he idea of a laptop sounds nice.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Regards,

Troy

[ddavid 149]

Some discussion here

Cheers -m Dai.

[Tim_A 997]

Make sure it has a SandyBridge i5 or better, and a discrete graphics card, and it should make a pretty reasonable job of fsx. If you can afford a decent sized SSD even better, since the slow hard drives you often find in laptops can really drag it down performance-wise.

[M31 0]

My advice, unless you really really need portability in computing for flight simulation, as in going off to the oil rigs or sea at weeks or months at a time, then stick to a desktop for flight sim, its far more cheaply configurable and upgradeable to a latest spec.

If you already have a good desk top, and just want to try flight sim on a laptop, then by all means give it a go ... my current laptop is way overdue for replacement and I plan to replace it early 2012 as my budget allows and I'll be looking at an I5 ish at least but no flight sims will be going on it, it goes on a sort of overbed table and will need to have a blu ray drive too for my movies ... I'm a bit disabled and sometimes bedbound for a while.

Good luck whatever you decide to do.

[Troy 0]

What about these specs? Good Bad?

Toshiba Satellite 15" Notebook

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• 2nd Generation Intel Core i7-2630 2.0ghz CPU
  
• 750GB HDD
  
• 6gb RAM
  

• Win 7 Home Premium
  
• DVD +/- & CD Recorder
  
• 4 USB Ports
  
• USB Version 3.0
  
• SD Card Reader
  
• Webcam
  
• Bluetooth
  
• WIFI
  
• 2MB Graphics Memory
  
• NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M (Optimus) with 2GB Dedicated Graphics
  
• 750 GB HDD
  
• 6 GB RAM
  
• 15.6 Inch Screen
  
• 1 HDMI Ports
  
• 1366 x 768 Screen Resolution
  
• 6 Cell Battery
  

[M31 0]

The specs look fine if that is what you want ... for myself I'd be looking for a Blu Ray drive and a larger screen, but it all depends what *you* need and are prepared to pay.

For sure you would be better off with a dedicated desktop ... but I guess you are mobile and those rules are out of the discussion.

Toshiba is an OK manufacturer with reasonable guarantee and after market servicing.

Go for it, you only live once.

[M31 0]

Did you go for that Troy?

My laptop was really on its last legs so knuckled down and ordered a new one this morning, it will be here Friday, don't need it for flight sim so lowered the spec from yours but it will be a power of ten better than my current one that is in its golden years now

Bought a Sony Vaio core i5 17.3 " screen, 4GB ram, Nvidea 410 1GB vram, 640GB 5400 RPM HD (might put an SSD in there in time) and most importantly with a Blu ray drive ... I've a large collection of Blu ray movies now and can watch them on this laptop in bed whenever I get a flare up again Chose a Sony one because they are behind Blu ray and make sure their players are kept updated firmware wise for an ever evolving format.

Hope you get your laptop needs sorted.

EDIT: My Sony VAIO laptop arrived end of last week, it actually has 6GM ram instead of the 4GB it was advertised with, quite chuffed with it apart from the speakers, for a laptop with a 17" screen and Blu Ray drive I expected a bit better because you could be expected to enjoy a good movie on this, sound is a bit tinny and much worse than my older laptop! been looking and will buy this Logitech Z305 USB speaker bar once my finances recover.