Laptop advice

[Kiwiray]

QUOTE (Kiwiray @ May 26 2009, 12:05 PM) <{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.

Well Guys I pick up my new Laptop in a couple of weeks it is pretty much the same as the one I quoted except it now has 4 gig ram, what I would like to know from you so wise men is, can I & should I partition the H/D & make both partitions bootable with one running only FS9 or FSX with nothing else? or I think there is a program that will shut every thing else down & only run the flight sim, I do hope I am making sense to you people.
Any advise will be much appreciated as I said earlier I have both FS9 & FSX I enjoy both of them.

Cheers & Beers kiwiray.

[dbcunnz]

Hi Kiwiray I think it will be struggling to run FSX.
As for FS9 it will run it ok but I would say it is on the lower scale for optimum performance.

[benwynn]

I dont know of any laptops that will run FSX really well on high settings, better go for a desktop for that one. Saves overheating too.

Anyway, even if there was a Laptop that ran FSX really well on high settings, it would probably be huge and therefore defeating the purpose of a laptop.

[Kiwiray]

QUOTE (benwynn @ Aug 9 2009, 04:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I dont know of any laptops that will run FSX really well on high settings, better go for a desktop for that one. Saves overheating too.

Anyway, even if there was a Laptop that ran FSX really well on high settings, it would probably be huge and therefore defeating the purpose of a laptop.

Thanks guys for the advice, I have both FS9 & FSX so will try them both when my laptop arrives, I have chosen a laptop over a desktop this time because of lack of room & every body else wanting to use my puter I am not a mean person but there are a couple of teenagers here with me & they download all sorts of cr@p & bugs, so no more my puter is for me only. LOL

Cheers kiwiray.

[Barrington]

See how it goes and if FSX is a problem, consider running on external drive. I have a buddy who is doing that and FSX is running fine through the Laptop.

[brownbox]

I personally dont see the point of another partition. If you keep your main partition clean and your background processes in order, you wouldnt need to do this. I think it would just be a bit more trouble than its worth, for the small (if any) performance gain.

[pilot.masman]

running FSX on an external wouldnt increase performance.... maybe im missing what your saying but running on an external means passing it through USB which seriously damages its write/read speeds.

i have a laptop and a puter so i dont use partition much but i do like to keep a partition on my laptop hdd around 150gb for storing my movies/pictures so they can be easily accessed by family if needed....