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Geek Culture / are there any laptops which support PS3 or PS4?

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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 19th Mar 2008 13:02
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Anyone know whether the latest shader capabilities have been implemented on laptops yet?
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Van B
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Posted: 19th Mar 2008 13:09
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Yeah, well shader 3.0 is on recent gaming laptops - I think your best going for a lappy with a nVidia 8600 or 8800, that way your guaranteed, plus you have DX10 support.

Looking for a DX10 laptop myself, not cheap!, probably end up spending £750 at least.


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Posted: 19th Mar 2008 15:01
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Quote: "Looking for a DX10 laptop myself, not cheap!, probably end up spending £750 at least.
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Actually you might be able to pick them up cheaper, just without the nVidia 8800, as I should be getting £1000 soon, I've been looking at gaming laptop solutions (laptop because I'm a mobile person with mobile needs) and even the latest Mac Books have DirectX 10 graphics cards (pressumably for when OpenGL 3 arises or people who install Vista onto a bootcamp partition) - the card the MacBook now comes with is the Intel GML X3100, though not a top of the range card, but it appears quite powerful and is capable of using DirectX 10 and PS3 (according to wikipedia) As the MacBook is about £700, no doubt you'll find PC Laptops of a similar spec cheaper.

Of course, I doubt the Intel equivalent is as good as the nVidia 8800, but it's an option and if I buy the MacBook I can always comment how well it runs Vista and directX10 under a different partition.

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Posted: 19th Mar 2008 20:58
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Thanks for the suggestions.

Quote: "Yeah, well shader 3.0 is on recent gaming laptops - I think your best going for a lappy with a nVidia 8600 or 8800, that way your guaranteed, plus you have DX10 support."


Can you suggest any specific laptops? Names will do at this stage - I don't need detailed specs (except for the shader thing).
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Posted: 19th Mar 2008 21:56
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I recently got a new laptop from Dell, an Inspiron 1720, with a GeForce 8600GS. Was less than €1000 aswell.

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Posted: 19th Mar 2008 22:40 Edited at: 19th Mar 2008 22:53
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Avoid Intel graphics for gaming unless you want glitches and compatibility issues.

http://www.alienware.co.uk/product_pages/notebook_all_default.aspx

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/xpsnb_gaming?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs

http://computers.search.ebay.co.uk/gaming-laptop_Laptops_W0QQ_trksidZm37QQcatrefZC12QQfromZR40QQsacatZ177

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Chenak
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Posted: 19th Mar 2008 23:42 Edited at: 19th Mar 2008 23:44
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Sony vaio have good gaming laptops, there is one out now with an 8600 thats only £900, includes blueray too and it is 15" widescreen. Will have to goto a Sony shop to get one though since I don't know a site that sells them that cheap, apart from pcworld.

I have the older version with a 7600 and it plays Command and Conquer 3 at full graphics settings beautifully. Wouldn't buy it for the battery life span though, generally only lasts 1hr unpluged hehe.

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0878146983.1205962715@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccehadediiiddehcflgceggdhhmdgmi.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=073051&category_oid=

Gah the link is too long, when you've had a look post here and i'l shorten it somehow.
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Posted: 20th Mar 2008 02:31 Edited at: 20th Mar 2008 02:35
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Yeah who writes these shopping sites don't they know anything about HTML legal characters and lengths Should the session ID be visible? i saw one the other day that used ; an thought hmmm no protection from SQL insertion then

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Posted: 20th Mar 2008 05:25
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i have a clevo with an 8800mgtx the second best laptop now. the superior model of mine, the D900 i think has dual 8800mgtx.

There are some asus lappys came out recently with a gf9500m but they are inferior to the 8800mgtx in every way but i think they are still among the best gaming noebooks and they are cheaper. about 1000 (+200-300) I bought my clevo for 2300 and its amazing

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Posted: 20th Mar 2008 14:55 Edited at: 20th Mar 2008 14:56
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The laptops with 8800's are not really laptops really though are they?
Well I consider them good if you wana use it as a desktop but thats
just me. Unless there is a 15" laptop with an 8800 i haven't seen yet
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