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I'm currently investigating the laptop-market. My computer is becomming a wee bit old, so a replacement is in order.
However, the misses would like a mobile one, so we can use it in the livingroom too.

Basically I'm thinking about a dell inspiron 1720

Dual core T7500 processor ( 2,2 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 4 MB L2-cache)
2.048 MB DDR2 SDRAM
Nvidea 8600 M GT - 256 DDR2 appointed memory
Vista home Premium

It's about

The processor is quite good... more powerful than mine. I have a 8600GTS 512mb, and I believe that 8600M GT is an integrated chipset... not a dedicated card...

So it will be able to run it but I dont think the graphic quality will be that good...

Dell are selling machines which are a few times higher than what you want to buy but have 2 graphics cards and I think quad core too.


All in all, it might play it but not too brilliantly.

I tried the FSX demo on my laptop and the graphic quality was quite nice...Of course, it was the demo so I can't really say anything for the full version.

I have an 8400GT, 2GB RAM and a T7300 processor...Just for kicks, I ran the demo maxed out...I got close to 16FPS

FSX would run okay on that kind of laptop (not brilliant but playable) but I have to say FS9 would be blindin' on it 8-) Laptops are more of a compromise than towers so you have to expect slightly lesser performance. But if you're only simming and the rest is work it makes sense to me
Kris have you looked at either the Gateway E-475M or the HP Pavilion dv6500t, they're about the same price and both very good.