Cheapest laptop for this game?

I'm looking to buy a laptop that can run Unreal Tournament 2004 with a decent FPS (at least 50 FPS), since this is the only game that the laptop would be running I"m looking to spend as little as possible, but I"m not exactly sure for what kind of system I should be aiming at, any recommendations?

 

8600m-gt w/ 256mb should run that game just fine methinks. so basically, the cheapest laptop with the aforementioned GPU (and a decent processor) should do the trick.

 

Ensure that you find one that is not defective or showing signs of death. The G2S has an awful thermal solution, so heat defects are amplified, fyi. If you are buying it used, ask for benchmarks to see its thermal/performance ratios. Good luck!

 

any dedicated card will work, that is a very old game.

 

Yeah really anything would play that fine, even the EEE's play it

 

Toshiba A200-2BO, I bought it a couple days back for £399 brand new from a retailer and it's great, HD 2400 256MB which can play Call Of Duty 5 and Call Of Duty 4 at playable framerates, 2.0GHZ Core 2 Duo and 2GB of DDR2 RAM is just great for everyday use and is pretty decent at playing some fairly new titles(newer titles on lower settings for decent framerates). 15.4inch screen is also great!
Check it out:
http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/product/Satellite-A200-2BO/1058711/tab/3/

Regards,
|Andrew

 

Do you guys recommend toshiba laptops? I think I read somewhere (I may be wrong) that they aren't exactly reliable and prone to crash. Does anyone have a link to a system they would recommend? I ask because sometimes with all the terminology of the hardware it's easy to get confused.

 

Toshibas are very good laptops, definitley in the top 3 in my opinion.

 

There are much better choices than the acooles' laptop.

For instance, a Dell m1530 or a HP dv5z or t.

 

Hmm... http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np2096-custom-laptop-built-compal-jhl90-p-2409.html?wconfigure=yes with a screen upgrade is $870 and will look great playing unreal 2004 maxed and with very nice res.

 

Wouldn't an XPS be an overkill? they are designed for gaming, but I plan to run UT2004 only, not any other type of games, and besides they are over one thousand bucks. The HP dv5z laptop seems more reasonable for the price (about 700 bucks), but I wonder if ATI Radeon(TM) HD 3200 Graphics is enough to get good FPS in online play.

 

wow a laptop like that for 778 bucks? does anyone have some feedback on the Sager brand?

 

anything with a 8400gs or above will easily handle UT 2004

 

XPS are NOT all designed for gaming (well if they are they are dell RETARDED!)

pretty much jsut the XPS17** series is for gaming

 

Regarding the feedback you asked for on Sager notebooks:

Sager is an awesome notebook manufacturer (or rather they get amazing laptop core systems designed by Clevo and simply repackage them). Either way, they are a very good, reliable notebooks. I recently bought an NP8660 which is the fastest gaming laptop in a 15.4" form factor. It runs beautifully and I can honestly say their support is great. Had to use their support because of the AC charger port in the back was damaged. This was my own fault though because I dropped it from a low height by accident and it damaged the port. They didn't even ask questions and I was without my laptop for only 6 days (from when I first called them with the problem to receiving it in the mail). Now I'm rambling but anyways check out Sager for yourself on the threads here on Notebook Review and you'll see what I mean.