Ugh. I can't believe this. Dell makes the most bullshit excuse for a laptop and makes you pay way to much for it. I call it "The Apple Business Plan."
My mom gave me a Dell Latitude D620 in early 2007 as a present. She spent $1200 on it. And what did she get for that much? She got a laptop that has a hard time running Adobe Flash Player. On top of this, my needs for a laptop have changed. I need a portable platform that I can run a level editor or a 3d modeling program on. I would not be bitching if I could Unreal editor 3 (Mapmaker for UT200x) running with even a medium amount of hangups. But the computer can't even run the editor ON AN EMPTY MAP without hangtimes of about 10 seconds. Good luck playtesting it, 'cause you aren't going to see a large map with this piece of overpriced silicon-based s**t. On this laptop, UT2004 seems to have a framerate of about 12 fps or lower, even on a map that's a 256x256x256 Subtraction brush with one player start and a light, with ALL settings turned down as low as they can go.
With that being said, I'm thinking about getting a new laptop that does not suck.
Unimprezzed · Wed Aug 27, 2008 @ 05:38am · 0 Comments |