I am in the process of purchasing a laptop for casual gaming and was hoping someone could help me with a few questions.

1. Is there a substantial difference between a HD 1940x1200 screen and a 1440x900?

2. Is the $200 difference important or should I spend that $200 on a processor upgrade. Wife won't let me have both :)

Thanks in advance.

Tigerhuck

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Posted by Lost Tiger

The Woodlands, Tx

Member since Sep 2005

146 posts

Posted on 9/11/08 at 7:24 pm to TigerHuck

I bought a laptop a few months ago with 1440X900 looks great, spend the money on CPU and vid card.

Some of the Toshiba laptops come with dual vidcards at a decent price, look on newegg.

I dont think the human eye can differentiate that well, at least not my human eye, of course I had to have lasik surgery!

ie if your anal about running at max resolution with infintesimal amounts of detail buy the higher res, else beef up the processor.

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Posted by philabuck

NE Ohio

Member since Sep 2008

10378 posts

Posted on 9/11/08 at 11:14 pm to Lost Tiger

$200 difference in the cpu likely means that your upgrading to a quad core.

Very few games are designed to run on a quad core.

However, itt really depends on how long you want to stay with you laptop.

If you want to add a couple of years to it then I would suggest the better CPU.

As it was stated the difference between the graphic cards isn't really noticeable unless your going to output to another video device.

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Posted by LSUTIGER694

Baton Rouge

Member since Apr 2005

386 posts

Posted on 9/12/08 at 8:15 am to TigerHuck

Check out the Gateway p7811fx it was on sale for $1250 last week. Not sure if it is now. Best buy is the only store to carry them for now.