Laptop

[B4Buster]

that would play this game decent. I really don't know much about computers. Anybody have an idea?

[The Fugitive]

Cyber Power has some good laptops at resonable prices. I've heard of a couple people who have used them and liked the service and the laptop they got.

[Denholm]

Not trying to convert your decision here, for all I know you're probably buying a laptop for business purposes. However laptops are not good gaming machines and if you're trying to buy a new computer system destined for gaming you should buy a desktop. They are better at cooling and can hold parts which run faster than laptop components.

[Hoarach]

Like Fugi said...Im one who has a cyberpower laptop.  Paid $750 for this laptop and I run AH on full graph detail and high res pack for nothing less than 50 FR.

[B4Buster]

Not trying to convert your decision here, for all I know you're probably buying a laptop for business purposes.

Yeah, I'll be using it to do work on too. I allready have a Desktop, and I figured I'd buy myself a decent laptop, something that I can use when not at home.

[B4Buster]

Thanks Fugutive and Horach, extremely helpful. I appreciate your input aswell Denholm. It's nice you comeputer literate guys are helping us dumb dumbs out 

[llama]

I reviewed a Cyber Power high-end laptop last year. It had essentially the same specs as another Alienware gaming notebook I was also reviewing, but for a good $1200 less.

It was a little rough around the edges and reeked of "generic Chinese manufactured components" , but performed very well.

Generally, I think for the price you spend on a good "gaming notebook" you can get a good "gaming desktop" plus monitor, and then with the money saved get a $600 general-purpose notebook that, if you lose or damage, will still leave you with a working computer on your desk.

Or get a netbook for less money and for the ultimate in portability.

-Llama

[Hoarach]

Cyberpower gets their laptops from MSI and clevo....

I remember when I asked about drivers and they gave me the link to download them from and it was right off the MSI website for my laptop.

[BaldEagl]

It seems to me that as long as you get a 2 Gb minimum CPU, 3-4 Gb of RAM and a dedicated video card with at least 256 mb dedicated memory you should be able to run AH and there's a lot of choices with those specs in the $700-800 range.  If you buy in that range watch the bus and RAM speeds closely as they vary by wide margins.  Faster is better.

I'd personally be looking for a full keyboard too with an actual num pad but that's just me.  I'm not too big on laptop keyboards even though I have one.  The downside is the laptop will be bigger and heavier.

Of course if you spend more you'll get more.  In the $1000-1200 range you can really get a very nice machine.

[The Fugitive]

I reviewed a Cyber Power high-end laptop last year. It had essentially the same specs as another Alienware gaming notebook I was also reviewing, but for a good $1200 less.

It was a little rough around the edges and reeked of "generic Chinese manufactured components" , but performed very well.

Generally, I think for the price you spend on a good "gaming notebook" you can get a good "gaming desktop" plus monitor, and then with the money saved get a $600 general-purpose notebook that, if you lose or damage, will still leave you with a working computer on your desk.

Or get a netbook for less money and for the ultimate in portability.

-Llama

I agree, but when you have to travel, a desktop really isn't an option. I used my work laptop, and while it wasn't anything special, I could get it to run AH half decent. FR was on the low side, but at least I could get my fix 

[Nilsen]

AH runs great on my old HP laptop. It has a single core 1,86ghz cpu, 2gig ram and a radeon x600 gpu with 64mb onborard memory. I use windows 7 beta.

AH is easy to run and even if a desktop if prolly "better" there is no need for a beefy laptop to play. If you plan on hooking it up to an external display with high resolution then its another matter. You will need something expensive.