Toshiba Laptops good for gaming ?? help!!!

Is the Toshiba Satelite A200-AH3 a good laptop ?? its on sale (300 dollars off) !

This is my first laptop, it has a dual core 1.7ghz, 1gb ram, 256mg graphics card, and 120gb harddrive. and if i get it i will upgrade the ram to 2gb (so keep that in mind)

I want to play most of thenew games on at least medium. and I already own a 360/ps3 so i also want this laptop for work/browsing too!

here is the specs/site:

http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS10089646&catid=25253

thanks

The general rule is to leave laptops to business travellers and college students who don't game. They make poor platforms to game on as a normal rule. Like many others, you confuse VRAM with video capability. It's the GPU core speed, VRAM speed, and the Memory System Bandwidth that counts for performance, not the amount of VRAM.

Brand isn't as important as a good "600-plus" GPU, not nearly (incidentally, I am using dial-up this afternoon, so I do not chase down links such as yours, sorry). The laptops that are most likely to have game playing potential will usually be of the "Desktop Replacement" variety, which are heavy, large, and have short battery life characteristics.

ye, but i really need something portable and something to play games !

Does anyone think this will run Doom 3 on high ?

Doom3 is old and would run on a majority of DESKTOPS now being sold, but not on an IGP, which is the usual video offered with a laptop:

> Don't try the game with integrated graphics

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From: Deep down in the south of Texas Posted: Saturday, 04 November 2006 03:53PM

~> ~> ~> There is no decent 3D Gaming Possible with Integrated Graphics

Previously covered, then that was archived, now covered again because it just keeps coming up.

Posted: Tuesday, 26 September 2006 05:19PM

OK, a lot of people seem not to get this, so I thought I'd make a new thread.

(Q) What's integrated graphics?
(A) Anything with the word "Intel" in it, or pretty much any graphics chipset maker besides ATI or Nvidia. Or the ATI Radeon Xpress 200 or 200m. Or Nvidia's GeForce 6100 or 6150. These aren't graphics cards, but small graphics solutions built into the motherboard.

(Q) Well, what now?
(A) If you have a laptop -- oops. Not much you can do. But a desktop, unless you're really unfortunate, should still have a slot on the motherboard that you can plug a graphics card into. You have to figure out if that slot is AGP or PCI-E, and buy the appropriate card.

Posted: Saturday, 30 September 2006 12:40PM

I realize the original post didn't say this, but it is worth clarifying in case anyone got the wrong impression: some laptops have separate graphics processors that will run the game just fine. Probably not, if you got your laptop at circuit city or something, though.

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From: Deep down in the south of Texas Posted: Monday, 02 October 2006 02:03PM

Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posted: Tuesday, 03 October 2006 01:13PM

*shrug* Frankly, expecting integrated graphics to run the latest games is kind of like expecting, say, a PS2 to run PS3 games. Decent gaming systems themselves are not very expensive (a good portion of the cost of a "full" system is actually in things like monitor, WinXP, etc).

k thanks Kiwi for the info !

I guess Laptops arnt good for gaming !

Laptops are horrible for gaming, but if you have to have one for whatever, school, business and want to game, I guess you can upgrade them but its nowhere near a desktop.

Laptops are horrible for gaming, but if you have to have one for whatever, school, business and want to game, I guess you can upgrade them but its nowhere near a desktop.

deniiiii21

ye, i know that laptops arnt like desktops (for gaming power) but I just wanted to know if they would run some games at least on medium