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Mobile vs. Desktop Gaming

Posted by michael on from the don't-hold-it-in-your-lap dept.

Mr.Tweak writes "TweakTown has just posted an article investigating Mobile vs. Desktop gaming in their latest article entitled "New Age Computer Gaming - Mobile vs. Desktop Investigation". The article compares a Dell Inspiron 8200 with ATI Mobility 9000 graphics to a standard desktop system with nVidia GeForce4 Ti4200 graphics. Can notebook gaming really be taken seriously? We think so, and so should you!"

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  1. There is one main problem with mobile gaming by packeteer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The biggest problem of mobile gaming is there is mainly one game in town, the radeon 9000. The gf4go is not bad but its not the best either. Mobile has caught up enough but its going to take a while for people to think of laptops as gaming machines.

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  2. seriously? by tanveer1979 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Well not yet, but when WLAN picks up is would be nice. Imaging waiting for a flight, you scan and find 3 other people running a QUAKE3 on WLAN, and join in.

    But only one problem battery. Yea unless we have long battery lives this wont really do. Most laptop owners will use it for gaming when they have spare battery life. So if we have 20 hour battery backup, which dosent burn you then maybe yes!

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  3. Re:Hardware choice.. by tanveer1979 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    hmm.. most of the laptop sales are directed towards business users. I doubt a laptop geared for gaming will sell that much. So in a way the test is good. Take a mainstream laptop, the kind most people will buy and then see wether it performs. Moreover many people get laptops on a temporary basis from the place they work, now a company will by the latest dell, but wont buy a laptop for gaming, right?

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  4. Is it just me or... by Anik315 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    do laptop's always seem to be "on the brink" of desktop performance? Do sites just repeat this news item everytime a more powerful laptops come out? The Geforce2go was a major step; this is a normal business cycle advance. The performance of laptops is never anywhere near the performance level of a similarly priced desktop, and that has been static for 15 years, yet over and over again we get reports about how laptops are becoming more and more like desktops... please.

  5. Don't be sane or anything.. by Large+Green+Mallard · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why compare a laptop with a Radeon 9000 to a Desktop with a Radeon 9000 when you can compare it to something totally different and draw your conlusion about laptop gaming from that!

    If you're looking at the performance of laptops for gaming, you make your desktop as similar as possible.. same RAM, same CPU speed, SAME VIDEO CARD. Otherwise, it's not truely useful stats.

  6. Gaming is not only about CPU and graphics card... by TV-SET · · Score: 5, Insightful
    While CPU and graphic cards are important, they are not all you need. Keyboards, mice, and joysticks are an IMPORTANT issue here, until of course you are talking tetris. :)

    If in doubt, visit sometime one of those gaming forums sites, like EsReallity.com. Discussions of input devices do appear there more then often.

    Not to mention the fact that I yet have to see at least one gamer (pro prefferably) which uses LCD (or similar technology) monitor. :)

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