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Title: Does this Meet Min. Req.?
Post by: recon7 on January 18, 2005, 11:03:38 AM

Skuzzy or other PC Guys,

I have the opportunity to purchase the following laptop for $300.00.  I will be remote from my house for a while, and want to know if this is adequate for AHII

Dell Latitude CPx
- PIII 500 MHZ
- 256 Megs of Ram
- 12 gig D
- DVD ROM Drive
- Modular Floppy Drive
- 2 Batteries (both last about 2.5 hours and can be used at the same time if you remove the modular drive
- 14.1" TFT Screen
- Touchpad & pointer
- 802.11B/G Wireless Card
- Windows XP including Dell Restore discs
- Office 2000 installed

Thanks,

Title: Does this Meet Min. Req.?
Post by: JB73 on January 18, 2005, 11:06:05 AM

video card is the biggest question...

doesn't seem to be one mentioned LOL

but seriously, it is all about the video card.

Title: Does this Meet Min. Req.?
Post by: Skuzzy on January 18, 2005, 11:06:43 AM

No.  The CPU is below the minimum requirements, but more importantly, judging from its age, I seriously doubt the video card will come close to working.  Even modern laptops struggle as the video cards are very slow compared to the desktop counterpart.