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Reply #45 - Jul 28th, 2004 at 5:20pm

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Hi! guys! I`m kinda new and Im writting from Spain.  Need a little help here...

Im moving to FL pretty soon and Im selling my PC in order to buy a laptop.  My most important feature is to run several flightsims, but obviously, fs2004 is the one that worries me, these are the specs:

Dell Precision M60

CPU:  Pentium M 7 15 (1.5 GHz, FSB 400 MHz, 2 MB cache)
SCREEN:   15.4" WUXGA
RAM: 512 (333Mhz)
Video:  nVidia Quadro™FX 700 GoGL 128MB

What are my chances of running fs2004 smoothly??

2 things worry me the most.  First, the CPU, never tested or heard of anyone who had this CPU and had FS2004 on ther PC.  I`ve noticed that there is a lot of cache, but it still is a 1.5 Mhz CPU, isn´t it a little slow??  does the fact that it is a Pentium M should calm me down and should I expect decent performance?  Should I aim for a Pentium 4 instead, with a much higher clock speed (2.8Mhz or more...) even though it is older than Pentium M?
Second:  I have no idea of how good this video card is.  128mb doesnt sound like much for FS2004 doesn´t it?

Should I aim for a laptop with ATI Radeon instead of nVidia?

Thanx for your help guys!!!
 
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