On 22/12/2011 05:20 PM, Warp wrote:

>    Laptops have integrated graphics chips which are usually way, way less
> powerful than the monsters intended for desktop PCs.

I don't know, man... It used to be that laptops just had *no* 3D 
hardware at all, and playing anything more advanced than Doom would be 
laughably slow. But these days, they do put real 3D hardware into 
laptops. I quite often play Team Fortress 2 on my laptop, for example. 
It's not Crysis by any stretch, but it's no push-over either.

Of course, nobody is going to put a *really* high-end GPU into a laptop. 
It would suck the battery dry in minutes, and heat dissapation would be 
a stern technical challenge... That doesn't mean that laptops have no 3D 
performance at all. It just won't be as good as a very expensive desktop.

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