d29565 wrote:
Meaning basic audio that comes on a laptop? And wouldn't video have to do with your graphics card?
There is onboard audio in laptops, they typicaly arent the best, but unless your planning to play alot of music or anything that should be sufficiant.
As far as your Graphics are concerned, your Onboard graphics in laptops cannot run Ryzom. This piece you have to upgrade to play Ryzom. Most places only give you a few choices for upgrades, but most of time the avalible upgrades are sufficiant or more than to Run it.
d29565 wrote:
And I've gathered, I think. That 2GB is the best RAM? I have to be able to use this laptop for more than just Ryzom. School-related programs and the like.
No actualy 2 GB is not the most you can get on some laptops. However, Unless you are a 3rd-4th year Computer Science Major, 2GB of Ram is far more than you will ever need for anything School related. 2GB just happens to be the most you can get 'normaly' on a resonably priced Consumer Laptop.
d29565 wrote:
And Daemion, hun. I believe i was just a bit confused by a few of your posts-but dont worry, I'm easily confused. In your first one...
Post 9 is that directed to me? And this one
Post 11 is that directed to Data? Because those two have different info on them..and like I said, easily confused :/
Sorry bout that, the First one was intended for you as an example of what you may want to look at from Dell (Dell will probably have your best value overall in performance and price). The 2nd post was kinda twards both you and data, It's a price comparison of a roughly equal system at Alienware.com as the one at Dell.
d29565 wrote:
I'm probably supposed to stay under 3k American Dollars.
I did just call my "maker of price range" and she said something about getting price quotes from about 3 different places. So, if anyone knows of any good computer buying places..I'm all ears.
I would recomend pricing laptops at Dell, Toshiba, Alienware, and HP/Compaq. The last one is just an extra option, I only threw it in there as one to look at if the "maker of price range" says no to any of the others, the HP/Compaq systems are less expensive generaly but they dont have the options the others have and dont get quite as powerful in "computing power".
A side note* As i mentioned before, 2GB of ram is more than sufficant to run any program you will encounter in College outside of Computer Science and Certain Engineering Degrees. Matter of fact, almost any of the "bare-bones" systems at any of the sites, will run your everyday software you will most likely use in College. The only reason the 2GB has been recomended is for Ryzom. Also, Hard drive speeds. What people were talking about is the hard drives RPM, Revolustions Per Minute. To be honest with you, 5400rpm on a laptop harddrive, assuming you have every thing else decent, is more than sufficiant to run Ryzom, and certainly any other Program for School. Any faster than that and the Price will jump fairly quickly. What you should really look at is how much Hard drive space you will need. Unless you are doing alot of Graphics work, Video editing or similarly big install sized programs, 60-80 GB of space is more than enough. If you have the extra "money" a 100-200GBs worth of Space woulnd hurt. Depending on your College/University you may want to make sure your laptop has both Wireless and Lan options for internet. Most of them will have both built in. If you find one that meets all the other requirements that you are possibly looking for but are unsure as to the Wireless/Lan connections, Gimme a yell and ill look into that particular model for ya and anwser that part or any other questions.