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Hi wise people of flight simming my puter has died on me & is I am told not really worth fixing so I am about to replace it with a lap top, will the one I have chosen be OK for FS2004 & FSx ? The lap top is an HP DV6 1105ax & the specs are as follows

Processor, operating system and memory
Operating system installed
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
Processor type
AMD Turionâ„¢ X2 Dual-Core Mobile Processor RM-75
• 2.20 GHz, 1 MB L2 Cache
Standard memory
2 GB
Memory type
800 DDR2
Memory layout
(1 x 2 GB)
Maximum memory
8 GB
System features
Internal drives
320 GB
Hard disk drive speed
5400 rpm
Optical drive type
LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD±RW with Double Layer Support
Lightscribe
Lightscribe included
Display size
15.6" Diagonal High Definition HP Brightview Display
Display resolution
1366 x 768
Graphic subsystem name
ATI Mobility Radeonâ„¢ HD 4530 M92
Video RAM
512 MB GDDR2 (dedicated)
External I/O ports
4 USB 2.0 (4th shared with eSATA port), eSATA Combo, VGA, HDMI, IEEE 1394 Firewire, RJ-11 / Modem, RJ-45 / Ethernet, 2 Stereo Headphone jacks, 1 Microphone jack, Consumer IR, AC Adaptor
Expansion slots
ExpressCard/54 Slot (also supports ExpressCard/34)
Speakers and microphone
Altec Lansing; SRS Premium Sound
Webcam
HP Pavilion Webcam with Integrated Digital Microphone
Remote control
HP Mobile Remote Control (Express Card Version)
Network interface
Integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN
Modem
High speed 56K modem
Wireless technologies
Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g/n
Your thoughts & advice would be much appreciated I am not very good at flying but being semi crippled & lot's of time to spare I enjoy searching the net & flight simming.

Cheers & Beers kiwiray.

I don't see anything there of concern ... should run as sweet as. Dual Core, plenty of disk, ample RAM. And the graphic card looks okay too.

Should run FS 2004 ok but may be struggling a little with FSX

fs9 easy. FSX will be a bit of a struggle. Go for something with an intel cpu. When it comes to laptops, intels have amd beat on everything (heat, battery, power consumption, speed)

Kiwiray wrote:

QUOTE (Kiwiray @ May 31 2009, 12:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi wise people of flight simming my puter has died on me & is I am told not really worth fixing so I am about to replace it with a lap top, will the one I have chosen be OK for FS2004 & FSx ? The lap top is an HP DV6 1105ax & the specs are as follows

Processor, operating system and memory
Operating system installed
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
Processor type
AMD Turionâ„¢ X2 Dual-Core Mobile Processor RM-75
• 2.20 GHz, 1 MB L2 Cache
Standard memory
2 GB
Memory type
800 DDR2
Memory layout
(1 x 2 GB)
Maximum memory
8 GB
System features
Internal drives
320 GB
Hard disk drive speed
5400 rpm
Optical drive type
LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD±RW with Double Layer Support
Lightscribe
Lightscribe included
Display size
15.6" Diagonal High Definition HP Brightview Display
Display resolution
1366 x 768
Graphic subsystem name
ATI Mobility Radeonâ„¢ HD 4530 M92
Video RAM
512 MB GDDR2 (dedicated)
External I/O ports
4 USB 2.0 (4th shared with eSATA port), eSATA Combo, VGA, HDMI, IEEE 1394 Firewire, RJ-11 / Modem, RJ-45 / Ethernet, 2 Stereo Headphone jacks, 1 Microphone jack, Consumer IR, AC Adaptor
Expansion slots
ExpressCard/54 Slot (also supports ExpressCard/34)
Speakers and microphone
Altec Lansing; SRS Premium Sound
Webcam
HP Pavilion Webcam with Integrated Digital Microphone
Remote control
HP Mobile Remote Control (Express Card Version)
Network interface
Integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN
Modem
High speed 56K modem
Wireless technologies
Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g/n
Your thoughts & advice would be much appreciated I am not very good at flying but being semi crippled & lot's of time to spare I enjoy searching the net & flight simming.

Cheers & Beers kiwiray.

As has been quoted it may be a struggle for FSX. I have a flight sim buddy using a laptop with similar specs and he is running FSX on an external drive - and running great...........

Barrington wrote:

QUOTE (Barrington @ May 27 2009, 04:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

As has been quoted it may be a struggle for FSX. I have a flight sim buddy using a laptop with similar specs and he is running FSX on an external drive - and running great...........

Thanks for the replies I have FS9 & FSX, my last puter ran FSX but the graphics card was not up to it & it also was slow with FS9 too from memory it was A radeon with 256 meg ram I saw the laptop I quoted & thought bugger the desktop next time I will go mobile, I wont be purchasing just yet probably in two months, I am 64 & enjoy surfing the net & flying around NZ, I can get them up OK, getting them down is a bit different but good fun. once again thanks for your advice.

Cheers kiwiray.

I went back to check some more laptops today & to get basically the same laptop with an Intel chip with the same speed 2.20 ghz is another $600 bucks sounds an awful lot extra to pay & not know if it will run FSX better than the AMD chip?

Cheers kiwiray.

you could have my laptop if you wanted... its quite a bit higher than that

if you want it, its 2.5ghz core2duo intel centrino.
it also has a massive 17" widescreen screen with a res of 1440x900
3gb RAM
7200.11RPM super hdd, it was not a normal market model. the 7200.11 should help with your fsx speeds cos youve got a 5200 up there in your first post.. its only 250gb but you can allways swap it for something else or if you wanted to there is th option of putting in a second hdd, there is space specifically for it...
and the rest is baicaly the same as yours
HP webcam, and mic
quick play buttons,
wireless a/g/n
Altec Lansing built in speakers, excellent quality...
DVD rw with light scribe and dual layer record.
fingerprint scanner
3usb2.0 ports instead of 4 but there is an expansion port which im told can be used by a port replicator to give allot more ports.

pilot.masman wrote:

QUOTE (pilot.masman @ May 30 2009, 05:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

it also has a massive 17" widescreen screen with a res

I must get me one off them ..

yea its great. especially for people like my parents with sight problems.

PILOT.MASMAN!!! CAN I BUY YOUR LAPTOP!!!!!???

How much?

um right now im getting a new GPU put in so you cant at the moment

Let me know when I can!

A new GPU in a laptop, thats a first?

I wasnt sure it could be done! Let me know how you get on.

well it the whole mainboard. just the GPU needed it...