Laptop advice...

[wongsing]

After reading a little more about the laptop that I just purchased on the black Friday sales ( http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/docu ... ct=5193751 ) and its seemingly capable Intel HD 3000 graphics card, I have become alittle more relaxed knowing that railworks should AT LEAST play better than on my current laptop, which by the way is also an HP with 1.9 Gigs of RAM and an Nvidea 7150m integrated card...

Ok, it is not possible for me to buy a desktop at this point due to space requirements, but could anyone tell me if the following might be a decent computer for Railworks?

http://www.bjs.com/store/hp-pavilion-dv ... .html#more

I read the "hardware recommendations" thread at uktrains and while it seems as if the graphics card will be enough, the processor is only advertised at being only capable of 2.3 GHz!

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-A-Seri ... 753.0.html

Am I reading this right, or do I have my facts messed up? The computer I purchased (listed at the top of this post) seems to have too much processor (an Intel i7 capable of 3.1 GHz) but perhaps the bare minimums to play Railworks 2012 graphics card wise. On the other hand, the computer I am thinking of trading it for has a seemingly better graphics card, but not enough processor???? Salesmen at both places I had visited said that either of these computers would play railworks just fine after viewing the Railworks requirements! Please, any help with this would be great! I can't afford a mainframe capable of launching the space shuttle, but if there was something alittle more expensive than the whopping $649-$699 laptops I have been looking at would be very much appreciated. Thanks guys!

-Richard Wongsing

[arizonachris]

Either one of those laptops would be OK at this point, Richard. RW will still pull a top notch desktop to it's knees on several routes. Get what you can afford, and then you will have to experiment on what settings work best for you.

I just upgraded my desktop to a socket AM3 motherboard, a fast Phenom II 970 CPU, 8Gb of fast 1866 RAM, and RW still chugs along on some routes. They need to upgrade the core of the game. To utilize multi core CPU's would be nice.