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blaarghalltheusernamesare · Sun 20 Mar 2011, 17:07

would i be able to use opengl shaders on this laptop? http://cgi.ebay.com/Alienware-Aurora-M7 ... 0546741636

or can anybody reccomend a fairly inexpensive laptop with good OPENGL shader support?

thanks!:)

DPUP5520 · #2 Post by **DPUP5520** » Sun 20 Mar 2011, 21:29

You could buy a better laptop than that for the same price brand new it doesn't even got a hd in it. Saying that there's really no way to tell being that Alienwares are all custom made and so I couldn't tell you what video card is inside of it , I do know that the model you are referring to went all the way up to a Nvidia GeForce Go7800GTX but that definitely isn't the case here in this one that you are referring to.

blaarghalltheusernamesare · Sun 20 Mar 2011, 21:37

then do you have any good suggestions for what laptop to get?

DPUP5520 · #4 Post by **DPUP5520** » Mon 21 Mar 2011, 00:08

I believe I answered this same question before when someone asked it if you would have searched you'd have probably found it. I would recommend any laptop that has at least a 9200gs nvidia card but that's actually a pretty low end card nowadays and is what my old work laptop uses that i'm typing on now. All of HP's entertainment laptops come with great graphics cards in them and they start from like low 600's

technosaurus · #5 Post by **technosaurus** » Mon 21 Mar 2011, 02:31

I am personally waiting on the amd bobcat/bulldozer to go into the mainstream market... they should be in the $4-600 range with better power using less power.

DPUP5520 · #6 Post by **DPUP5520** » Mon 21 Mar 2011, 02:35

They aren't supposed to be out until the end of the year though aren't they?

technosaurus · #7 Post by **technosaurus** » Mon 21 Mar 2011, 04:00

mid June

blaarghalltheusernamesare · Mon 21 Mar 2011, 21:34

how powerful is the bobcat/bulldozer supposed to be?

abushcrafter · #9 Post by **abushcrafter** » Fri 01 Apr 2011, 21:05

I have been researching netbooks for the last 2 years i think. Reading reviews and trying to try some out. I hope to try some more models soon and to buy one. Would my recommend netbooks list be useful to you?

blaarghalltheusernamesare · Sun 10 Apr 2011, 16:19

i've been considering the eee pc i201n or 1215n. anybody know if OPENGL would work on these?

alexandrion · #11 Post by **alexandrion** » Sat 23 Apr 2011, 06:34

from your last post i see that netbooks are not out of the question

here's a netbook i was thinking of buying

http://www.amazon.com/Acer-AO522-BZ465- ... 004PYD7AC/

the processor outperforms any intel atom that i'm aware of (and it only uses 7w), and the video card is not horrible i guess, better than most netbooks
and it has a ddr3 slot => cheap ram upgrade

not sure if that card is opengl compatible

i'm running one of these, depending on what you mean by inexpensive laptop you could consider it

http://www.amazon.com/K50AF-X1-15-6-Inc ... 315&sr=1-3

blaarghalltheusernamesare · Sat 30 Apr 2011, 19:59

ooh would i be able to get opengl working on this?
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... CatId=4965

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