- Furl Hawkens
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Hmm, it seems that there are very few people on here that are computer literate...
That computer will run the game, but not at the highest specs (at least not well). You're on the right track, looking for laptop with a dedicated graphics card, but just as there are different levels of performance for desktop graphics cards, there are also different levels for laptops.
The G210m in that computer is NOT designed for high end gamming (no matter what GFWL might make you think). The main purpose of that laptop even having the 210m is so that it can play full resolution 1080p HD video without lag or stuttering.
The 210m only has 16 processing cores, and a miserable 64bit memory interface. And it has a total computing power of roughly 72 gigaflops. Not even NVidia (the manufacturer of the chip) makes any claim to its gamming potential (because there is none).
All and all, for the price you are looking at paying (roughly $1,000.00) you are getting very little for your money, and paying a price premium because of where you buy.
If you want a (fairly) good gaming laptop (sub $1,000) look at these:
Link to newegg for GT240M notebooks.
All three of those laptops have the GT240m, which offers 48 processing cores, a 128bit memory interface, and 174 gigaflops of FPU processing power. All of that simply means that you will get roughly 3-4 time better performance in games.
If you want to save a little money, you can even look at these sub $750 laptops:
Link to newegg for GT130M notebooks.
Each one of those has the GT130m GPU, which is still more than twice as powerful as the G210m.
The long and short of it is this, NVidia classifies the 210m as "Mainstream", while classifying the 240m and the 130m as "Performance". Which one do you think is going to be better for games?...
References:
NVidia specs for G210m: http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_g210m_us.html
NVidia specs for GT130m: http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_130m_us.html
NVidia Specs for GT240m: http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_240m_us.html
[Edited on 11.08.2009 11:05 PM PST]