Sony vaio fw and flight simulator x??

Hi,

I pan to buy an fw with a 2.4ghz processor, 4gb ram and ati 512mb 3650 graphics card. Is this set up powerful enough to play flight simulator x on decent settings? Anyone who has played the game on this laptop, your views will be greatly appreciated.

Would the 9600gt in the aw series or the macbook pro play the game much better? would there be a compatibility issue with the game and the macbook pro's OSX.

thanks

 

9600m gt is better then a 3650

3670=9600m gt
3650=8600m gt

 

I'm pretty sure it won't work on OSX "out of the box" - I don't know if thereare workarounds for it though.

Isn't this flight simulator a few years old though? In that case the FW will do fine.
It may be an idea to look up the specs of the simulator too.
Another question is if you need absolutely every detail on clouds etc.

I know Flight Simulator 2004 worked on an Intel 910/915GSM chipset with an Intel card...

 

AFAIK, Microsoft never released a MacOS version of Microsoft Flight Simulator X.

The simulator relies heavily on DirectX 9.0c or 10, and likes a lot of RAM. Don't even think about running it on a machine with less than 1 GB RAM, most of which is free.
After that, the graphics details can be adjusted to match your graphics card and CPU. At the lowest settings, it runs OK on pretty much anything, but it won't look all that awesome.

On a laptop, the main obstacle is that you absolutely need a Joystick. Trying to use a touchpad and keys just won't work, especially with the lack of a numeric keypad.
And these days, there are exactly zero miniature joysticks available suitable for attaching to a laptop. Nobody makes them anymore. So you have to use a big joystick that requires a table, which severely limits the usefulness of using a laptop computer instead of a desktop.