Gaming Netbook?

• Justified wrote on 2010-08-13 08:35
  And thus I ask for any last bits of advice with the above ^ information.
• Syrphid wrote on 2010-08-14 02:01
  The gateway looks the best, although I am now very confused about the graphics card. The bestbuy website lists it as 256 dedicated but notebookcheck says it's integrated. Maybe it comes with 256 dedicated and can leech 256 from the system? Worth investigating.
  
  Acer seems like the best out of the other 3. I'm not sure if asus' processor is better, since it is dual core but with only a quarter the fsb (unsure of the effect of fsb frequency). Asus also has ddr3 memory. According to this site, ddr3 potentially runs at 2x the speed of ddr2 and uses less power.
• Osayidan wrote on 2010-08-14 02:08
  Everythings pretty much been covered except that integrated graphics are becoming more and more reasonable now. Technology is moving away from graphic cards and towards hybrid CPU + GPU + RAM (system on a chip). So when you see integrated graphics these days it might not be half bad.
• Justified wrote on 2010-08-14 02:22

  Quote from Syrphid;123917:

  Acer seems like the best out of the other 3. I'm not sure if asus' processor is better, since it is dual core but with only a quarter the fsb (unsure of the effect of fsb frequency). Asus also has ddr3 memory. According to this site, ddr3 potentially runs at 2x the speed of ddr2 and uses less power.

  
  
  I used my current laptop as a basis (since it runs Mabi well) and compared benchmark tests for Dell Ins1525 and Acer AO721 (about half the page down). The Acer outperforms tremendously in almost every test, although my Dell was modified with a better CPU and more RAM than the one tested.
  
  I asked a random tech forum and they said that the weaker single-core CPU of the Acer wouldn't make too much of a difference for soft-core games, and that overall it should be able to handle it - at least similarly to the Dell.
• Cardplayer wrote on 2010-08-16 08:47
  if you REALLY wanna game on a laptop do what i do...
  
  camp out riiight next to nexon :D