I usually played on this Alienware system which, as some may know, is made for gaming. Eventually I had a problem with it and didn't play for a while until some friends donated a laptop to the cause.
It's a Dell, with a 1.5 cpu and Radeon 3000something or other video card. I've been told the video card is NOT a good one for playing AH with.
I went ahead and loaded Aces High and it works. Certainly the graphics aren't nearly as good as with the Alienware and there's a horizontal strip of dark area where the horizon is supposed to be about an inch and a half high. You can see things close up but, if a con's out a ways, all you can see is his icon and not the plane until he gets close enough. Sometimes that can be too late.
Nonetheless, I've had fun with it and gotten many kills, despite the slow frame rates, occasional freeze ups and such. I played with the laptop for months and pretty much just got used to the glitches and deficiencies of it and considered it the norm.
Then I got my Alienware fixed and started playing on that again. Now the laptop drives me nuts when I go out of town and play with it because I'm so used to the Alienware.
Oh, and I'm sure it depends on the quality of the laptop, but don't even think of trying to play the game on battery power. I tried it once and the game basically just sat there, frozen with a frame rate of 1 or 2. Hooked it up to the wall outlet and it ran fine.
A couple other suggestions for travelers: buy one of those two prong adapters for electrical outlets. I've found a lot of older hotels (and some I didn't think were so old) only have the old two prong style electrical plugs. AC adapters nowadays nearly always have the three prong plugs. Keep the adapter in your laptop bag so you can plug in anywhere.
Also, an eight or ten foot extension cord is nice to have along as you might not always have a socket right where you want to play at. I keep telling myself to keep one in my car but have yet to do so. Luckily, the two prong adapter solved most of the outlet access problems so I haven't really needed an extension cord since I got the two prong adapter.
Last but not least, try and have your laptop set up for both hardline and wireless dsl, PLUS regular dial up. I keep an eight foot section of phone line in my laptop bag so I can connect if the hotel doesn't provide broadband. Be sure and check hotel rules, though, as some charge through the nose for even local phone calls. But, if they don't charge for local calls, if you use AT&T dsl (same as SBCGlobal) they have freel local dial up numbers in nearly every town in my state of California.
Most hotels and motels with hard line dsl provide the hook up cables so you shouldn't need to carry those. If you don't have wireless connector inside your laptop, be sure and by one of those usb wireless things so you can plug it in and connect anywhere wireless is available. I saw Staples selling one such thing for $30 or $40 a while back.
Then you'll be all set.
