labtop that plays secondlife?

[Giselle Novo]

Hello everyone. still looking for the best labtop. for gaming but in the price range of 500$ usd.

 

Is this particular labtop good to play secondlife? and if not what others would be good. ty in advance. And i need a labtop. Not a desktop.

Platform:	PC
Primary Color:	Black
Processor Brand:	Intel
Processor Type:	Intel Core i3-2328M Processor
Processor Speed:	1.65 GHz
System Ram:	8 GB
Maximum Memory Expansion:	8 GB
Hard Drive Size:	500 GB
Laptop Screen Size:	15.6 inch
Screen Type:	HD Display
Resolution:	1366 x 768
Graphics Card:	Intel HD Graphics 3000
Multi Media Drive:	DVD Writer
Card Reader Type:	5 in 1 Card Reader 1 x (SD Memory Card), 1 x (MultiMediaCard), 1 x (Memory Stick), 1 x (Memory Stick PRO), 1 x (xD Picture Card)
Battery Life:	4 hours 30 minutes
Battery Type:	Lithium Ion
Network Connection:	10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN
Connector Type:	2 x Aux Audio, 1 x DC-in, 1 x Ethernet, 1 x HDMI, 3 x USB 2.0, 1 x VGA
Operating System:	Windows 8 64-bit
Accessories Included:	Power cord, 6-cell Lithium Ion, Quick Start Guide
Bus Speed:	2500MHz
Model No.:	NX.M09AA.017
Shipping Weight (in pounds):	10.0
Product in Inches (L x W x H):	17.0 x 16.0 x 2.0

[Matteo Rhiano]

the machine itself can run sl, but where i'm worried about is the graphics... the most importand part and you don't mention it.

lot of laptops have onboard graphics... that will be almost never a total pleasing situation.

i3  is ok

4gb memory is ok

500gb hd is ok

W7 is ok

[Bree Giffen]

We've been discussing sub $500  laptops recently on another thread here. It's somewhere nearby.

 

[KarenMichelle Lane]

To summarize for all future PC purchasers looking at PCs with the Intel Graphics Subsystems in them - [ e.g.Graphics Card Vendor: Intel Graphics Card: Intel® HD Graphics 2000 or 2500 or 3000 or 4000 series ]...

These Intel Graphics subsystems are designed specifically to support:

1) 2D Business Graphics

2) Media Streaming [e.g. Your Blue Ray DVD's movie will look great]

Gaming is an afterthought! GPU processing on these Intel subsystems is limited by design to optimize 2D applications like the above. You are very unlikely to get SL running properly on these systems.

Serious gamers & 3D Virtual World enthusiasts need a Graphics Subsystem that focuses on 3D rendering and high GPU processing tasks. This is why you see the large cooling systems on higher-end Graphic Cards, to cool the GPU when it is busy calculating the 3D imagery & shading rendering for display multiple times per second [known as the FPS - Frames Per Second speed].

So, you may try to install and run SL on this PC but be ready to run it in the lowest possible video mode and be ready for crashes and/or unusual graphic artifacts on screen. Make sure you have the latest driver from Intel installed as well.

.... http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect/graphics

[Orca Flotta]

Graphics Card:Intel HD Graphics 3000

Uh oh! :smileysurprised: LL have never supported Intel's onboard krap and they never will. Look at Acer, they have some capable laPtops in the 500 area. But it'll not be very satisfactory neither. In fact it'll be hard to come up with a good SL-able 500 dektop and lappies are far more expensive in general. My advice would be to save some more and look for a laptop at least in the 800 pricerange. Toshi and MSI have some in that neighborhood. That's cool for very leisurely playing when you're on tour/vacation, for constant everyday use you gotta look at least in the 1000+ pricerange.

[IvanTwin Rogers]

I recomended for play second life a Tandy Color Computer:matte-motes-angry: