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When a PDA is better than a GBA for Gaming

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-very-often dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Conventional wisdom says that it's silly to buy a $300+ PDA to play games when a $100 Game Boy Advance SP is going to be better at it. At the same time, no one says that it's silly to spend $1000+ on a PC to play games, when you can do the same thing with a $199 PlayStation 2. FiringSquad just posted an ASUS PDA review that focuses on some of the games that only a PDA has the horsepower for, and helps readers figure out how to pick out the right PDA."

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  1. Limitations... by anaphora · · Score: 5, Funny

    But can a PS2 play Solitare? Didn't think so.

    Everything has limitations.

  2. Since when by UrgleHoth · · Score: 2, Funny

    is wisdom conventional?

    --

    Dogma - "let's just say we'd like to avoid any empirical entanglements."
  3. My DooM 3 Machine by dolo666 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Power Mac G5 Dual 2GHz
    Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5
    2x250GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm
    Apple Keyboard & Apple Mouse - U.S. English (I'll get a multi-button mouse if I can find one good for gaming, and a gamepad)
    SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)
    8GB DDR400 SDRAM (PC3200) - 8x1GB
    ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
    Accessory kit
    Mac OS X - U.S. English
    APP for Power Mac (w/ or w/o display) - Enrollment Kit
    Klipsch ProMedia GMX 5.1 Speakers & Monster 2-meter Cable .Mac Promotional Bundle
    Apple Cinema HD Display (23" flat panel)
    iSight
    Apple Cinema HD Display (23" flat panel) + Apple DVI to ADC Adapter
    DVD Studio Pro 2
    Soundtrack
    Final Cut Pro 4.0
    Shake 3 Mac OS X
    AppleWorks 6.2.7
    Command and Conquer Generals
    BloodRayne
    Halo
    Masters Of Orion III
    Myth III - The Wolf Age
    Return to Castle Wolfenstein
    Star Trek Elite Force 2
    Unreal Tournament 2003
    WarCraft III
    WarCraft III: Frozen Throne
    Adobe Creative Suite - Premium
    Doom 3 (not included in price)
    Snak (not included in price)
    $22,089.35
    Anything I'm missing?

    1. Re:My DooM 3 Machine by ivan256 · · Score: 2, Funny

      The memory costs $5000 because it's better than other memory. Really.

    2. Re:My DooM 3 Machine by vidnet · · Score: 4, Funny
      Anything I'm missing?

      A girlfriend?

      On the other hand, girlfriends come and go, but the love from a Dual 2ghz G5 is pure and everlasting, until people outspec it on their PDAs next year.

  4. Re:Karma whoring "duh" response: by angle_slam · · Score: 4, Funny
    This is why TI Calculator games are the most wonderful thing in the world. No one is going to see anything odd about me pressing buttons on a calculator in a large lecture hall.

    Unless it's a literature class.

  5. Re:You're ridiculous by damiam · · Score: 4, Funny
    I think it's insane that a friend of mine just spent $500 to upgrade his PC to get Halo playable

    I think it'd take a lot more than a hardware upgrade to make Halo playable.

    --
    It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
  6. Yeah, call me... by mikeg22 · · Score: 1, Funny

    when a console can pull down the vast amount of pron that my computer can...