A New Computer

[motan]

you should have asked on guild forums dear

if you want the best of the best buy lenovo thinkpad T60P. Most people who try them fell instantly in love - they are reliable, good looking, amazingly capable and reliable.

For $2500 you'll get a T60P model 2613H9U with the following configuration:
- intel core duo processor 2.16 GHz (more than enough for ryzom, student needs, antivirus, music, video, whatever)
- 2GB RAM (again, enough to run several applications at once)
- 256MB ATI Mobility FireGL V5200 (graphics card)
- display 14.1 inch SXGA+ (1400x1050) TFT (looks great)
- 100 GB hard disc (not huge but enough for games, student needs, music)
- combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM (read/write CD, read only DVD... more than enough for most ppl)
- docking station - at home you can use a real monitor / keyboard / mouse, you want that to play ryzom
- all communications support you'll ever need (fax/modem, ethernet, bluetooth, WiFi, wireless WAN (cingular)
- Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Office Basic

[xeraphim]

this weighs in at just under 3k and would be a ryzom playing monster

Dell XPS M1710

Components
PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7200 (2GHz/667MHz/4MB) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 edit
LCD PANEL 17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife™ edit
MEMORY 2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHZ, 2 DIMM edit
HARD DRIVE 60GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive edit
OPTICAL DRIVE 8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability edit
VIDEO CARD 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 7900 GTX edit
WIRELESS OPTIONS Wireless Card Only: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945a/g edit
Accessories
BATTERY OPTIONS 80 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery edit
SOUND OPTIONS Integrated Sound Blaster® Audigy™ HD Software Edition edit

$2,979

That will handle pretty much anything you can chuck at it with a giggle

If you got the money use it.. A laptop is a hell of an investment and you might as well get the best you can.

*note.. I only speced a dell because you specified that and I have not included any discount in this.

If you want to go further afield Alienware are great (but pricey) and I cannot fault this samsung.. it really is the Yubos Nuts

[gillest]

With nowadays processors, especially Centrino whih seems to work fine, you can play ryzom with no problem:

My laptop is not a beast but is good enough to run Ryzom fine:
Only thing as nearly everybody said is to get 1 gb ram.
Graphic card i have a Gforce with 128 Mb and run ok..

[d29565]

To bring up an old thread...

I've been looking at Macbooks (Apple) lately. I'm considering getting the 15 inch Macbook Pro with 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 2GB of memory. The hard drive is 160GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm.
See Here for the Macbook

It comes with an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics with 256MB SDRAM. Is this a decent graphics card, will it run with Ryzom? I am worried that whatever I get isn't good enough And is a widescreen laptop okay for running Ryzom. I think I heard someone mention Ryzom not running on widescreen in Uni chat once, or would that be fixable by running it in window mode?

I plan on majoring in Computer Information Systems in college, so I will probably need something goodly, hard drive/memory wise. Are those choices good choices? Will a graphics card like that allow me to put my graphics on medium, instead of always on low? (Not that that is super important).

Thanks to all that helped before/and now *Hugs*

[sluggo0]

Onboard audio: not too hot realtek audio chips that are commonly used for onboard sound use a quite a lot of cpu. Now I know there are some mobos (for PC at least) that use Creative for their onboard sound which would be better.

Unfortunately, most of the PC ones are not actual creative chips either, they're realtek/sound max chips, some of which are 'software upgradeab'e to creative labs, LIVE! no less, which is an outdated chip, used in the PII/PIII days.

In other words, garbage, or as I used to say, 'a hunk of cardboard with a PCI connector'.

At least my laptop's onboard sound is reasonable, but during Ryzom, I have to turn sound off, that's because I have an Inspiron 8600, which is a bit dated, has a GeForce FX 5600Go chip, so not so bad.

A newer laptop likely would play ryzom quite well, just be sure you have Nvidia or ATI graphics board, preferably the 'mini PCI express' sort that you can upgrade later if you choose.

Lots of RAM as others have said, and the faster the hard disk sounds, likely the better (7200 RPM drives would help, the old 5400 RPM ones are like PC's 10 years ago.).

[sluggo0]

It comes with an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics with 256MB SDRAM. Is this a decent graphics card, will it run with Ryzom? I am worried that whatever I get isn't good enough And is a widescreen laptop okay for running Ryzom. I think I heard someone mention Ryzom not running on widescreen in Uni chat once, or would that be fixable by running it in window mode?

That's a very decent (current) card.

The last couple years I've preferred ATI over NVidia, but NVidia is always neck and neck technology, they just seem to have a lot more dodgy driver releases.. could be fixed by now.

And ryzom runs just fine in 16:9 aspect ratio.

I plan on majoring in Computer Information Systems in college, so I will probably need something goodly, hard drive/memory wise. Are those choices good choices? Will a graphics card like that allow me to put my graphics on medium, instead of always on low? (Not that that is super important).

Thanks to all that helped before/and now *Hugs*

Tis a reasonable machine from the looks of it, if the HD is too small, external USB/firewire drives are becoming commodity items, in fact we all should use one for backup