Why the Radeon 9700 Pro with 64 mb ram?

Why does Fujitsu limit you to the R9700 Pro with only 64 mb ram, from what I understand the difference between a R9700p with 64 mb of ram and one with 128 would basically come down to whether you could play first person shooters and mmorpgs or not.

The configuration Fujitsu offers seems great, and they have very stylish cases, and people post about the good service and reliability of their laptops. It seems like a good company to buy from, except for this same problem of 64 mb video cards..

IBM also only offers 64 mb cards, except they limit you to R9600's, anyone know why this is?

Im hoping this problem will be fixed with the addition of PCI Express, and i'll probably wait for that to change things around so I can buy from a company like Fujitsu or IBM, but its frustrating that this is how things are right now.

Anyone have any thoughts as to why Fujitsu only offers a 64 mb card on their high-end graphics notebook? (at least, with pentium m processors)

 

IBM and Fujitsu are typically marketed to business people who dont require high end graphics cards.

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And for the record, you can play those games with a 64MB card, in fact I can play those games with an integrated graphics card. You just have to scale back the graphics options.

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Could you explain this a bit further for me Brian?

I know people talk a lot about anti-aliasing, and that you can generally run things ok if you have it off (I guess this is there for desktop card with 256 mb) but just how good would you be able to run something like eq2 with a 64 mb 9700 pro?

Personally, I would probably only be playing next years mmorpgs (Tabula Rasa anyone?) and hopefully some decent first person shooters like halflife 2. Im sure these would keep me occupied for the next 2 years at least, so i'd probably be fine if I could run them without problems.

On the other hand, if you just mean being able to run them on the lowest settings.. that probably wouldn't help much. I can run UT2k3 on my current desktop (1ghz athlon, 512 ram, geforce 2 mx 32 mb) but it has to have lowest settings on everything and still lags a bit, but it is playable. (looks worse and runs worse than unreal tournament tho)

Also, would you be better off with a r9600 pro with 128 mb or a 9700 pro with 64?

What part of the game does the ram affect, what part does the difference between 9600 and 9700 affect?

 

Marken - I'm not the best to answer these questions...why don't you copy and paste this question into a new topic in the hardware forum. You're sure to get more help that way.

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