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Any recommended laptop ideas?

Unread postby frankenthal » Sun Apr 28, 2024 3:08 pm

I travel a lot and rather have a laptop to run TSC, TSW, and Trainz19. Any suggestions on a midrange-priced laptop?
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Unread postby buzz456 » Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:08 pm

What do you call mid range if I may ask?
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Re: Any recommended laptop ideas?

Unread postby Cardinal51 » Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:11 am

This one does a great job. First time in about a decade that TS runs good for me.

Price a bit over $2000

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Unread postby buzz456 » Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:08 am

Cardinal51 wrote:This one does a great job. First time in about a decade that TS runs good for me.

Price a bit over $2000

Specs in my sig.

Mid range? !*roll-laugh*!
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Unread postby jalsina » Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:42 am

Cardinal51 wrote:This one does a great job. First time in about a decade that TS runs good for me.

Price a bit over $2000

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Unread postby Cardinal51 » Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:13 am

Price is also that high because it was the first I9 laptop with that small screen size. Larger screen sizes are probaly a lot cheaper
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Re: Any recommended laptop ideas?

Unread postby buzz456 » Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:49 am

https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GF63-Thin-10 ... 81903&th=1

I have one of these and it plays the game nicely when I'm on the road.
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Unread postby Cardinal51 » Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:57 am

I do think that 8Mb RAM is a step back one should not take.
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Unread postby trev123 » Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:11 pm

16 GB RAM is the min as the OS uses almost 8 GB so not much leg room.
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Unread postby buzz456 » Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:33 pm

Well RAM is cheap nowadays. !!**sorry**!! for suggesting such a silly thing.
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Unread postby Cardinal51 » Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:12 pm

Well, you did suggest 8 first :-)
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Unread postby buzz456 » Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:32 pm

I also said that computer ran the game just fine. I stand by that statement.
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Unread postby Cardinal51 » Tue Jun 04, 2024 3:35 pm

And ? Did you get the new toy Frank ?
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