I was contemplating to buy a laptop... I had two candidate: A Toshiba Satellite A50 or a Dell Inspiron.
Then Doom 3 came out.
Since my desktops are due for upgrades, now I'm contemplating on buying a superduper gaming machine.
Here's Doom3's worry free requirements:
3 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 chip or AMD Athlon 64 3000+.
1 gigabyte of memory.
Two gigabytes of hard drive space.
An nVidia 6800 graphics card or an ATI X800XT
An Athlon64 3200+ costs about RM 1200 while an ATI Radeon 9800Pro will burn about RM 1500. Plus all the other stuff that would round up close to my budget for a laptop (around RM5000 to 6000).
So, do I buy a laptop or a gaming machine?
Dude, if you're really contemplating building a gaming rig, bear this in mind. Doom 3 was designed for nextgen PCs, meaning even the one you listed here will just meet the minimum specs. Here's some info from HardOCP:
http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQ0
They have an excellent writeup on the minimum specs and recommended ones for Doom 3. Hell, I just found out there's a setting in the game called "Ultimate" for PCs that haven't even been made yet! So in a sense, by the time your ultimate rig is ready and running Doom 3, there'll be other games using the engine that will require even more PC power.
I think you know where I lean with this one. A lappie gives you mobility and some on the go gaming (perhaps not Doom 3 but close), but in the end it's your choice..so happy shopping!
Posted by: Ash.ox | Monday, August 09, 2004 at 20:41
Yeah bro... the ultimate setting would require the video card to have at least 512Mb RAM!!
That alone, if exist today would cost 5k!
madness!
Posted by: KaZ | Tuesday, August 10, 2004 at 15:28
Will go for the gaming machine if I were you! We're talking about d game (Doom 3), aren't we?
Posted by: jreinds | Monday, August 16, 2004 at 16:05
1 GIG memory???? Damn, forget it then...I download way too many videos to accomodate a heavy duty game like taht...heard it's good though
Posted by: nie | Wednesday, August 18, 2004 at 14:04
I'd say the gaming machine. You KNOW you want it.
Posted by: rocket queen machine | Thursday, August 19, 2004 at 11:21
Indulge yourself. Get a gaming machine!
Posted by: khalilur | Thursday, August 19, 2004 at 14:40
I'd drop dooom3 like you're gonna have time to play it anyway... :p
Posted by: Sharizal Shaarani | Monday, August 23, 2004 at 18:59
Drop Doom 3 at the moment.
Get a lap dog, oh I mean laptop.
And play Hitman 3 : Contracts instead. Even for a game, I now know how hard it is to be a hitman.
p/s : ignore me because I prefer killing humans than aliens.
Posted by: vlad | Wednesday, September 08, 2004 at 12:23
I'd be interested in hearing. The TOS seems rather clear that it is not unless expressly approved by Amazon. I guess if the library got it in writing then they would be ok.
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