I'd kind of like to get a computer that would be able to play a few of yesterday's games, even if they're really slow. Things like Half Life, RTSs (RoN, WC3, similar titles), and Gun Bound. It has an S3 Savage IX8 onboard graphics accelerator. I was wondering if that would be up to snuff. I'm not looking to play UT2k4, or Doom 3 on the little guy, just some time killer stuff. If not, I'm sure my OLD games like The Sims, Tropico, and Ceasar 3 will play, heh.
Just kind of wanting to seek out our computer inclined collective opinion. To me, it sounds like a fairly good deal. I could use it in my Econ/Govt class to take notes, which would be mucho handy because I can only understand what I wrote half the time. From the sounds of some reviews that I've found online it's less than 2'' thick, and under 5lbs, which makes for a good portable indeed.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
You should be fine 
I think I'm going to take his Dell 600m instead, he hadn't listed specs, but it's a fairly decent system. 1.6ghz P4-m instead of the P3, and a wireless 802b connection. Same specs otherwise. Same price as well. Probably has better onboard video as well, current 600m's are shipping with Radeon 9000 mobilities with 32 or 64mb of RAM, which isn't the best for gaming, but would definatly work fairly well.
Either way, I'm going to get either the 600m or the T22.
For the record, I priced out a complete (minus speakers) system tuesday that came out to just under $600. Barton core 2500+, 512 DDR, 60gb 7200 8mb cache HDD, and I think it was a Radeon 9500 Pro 128. Monitor, keyboard, mouse, 500watt case, and a 48x CDRW drive.
I know desktops can be built dirt cheap now adays, but I want something for on the go. Something I can pick up and take out to a cafe with me, or take notes on with in my non computer class. I know it's not "nessicary", but it's what I'd really like. And besides, this laptop would be able to last me for a good long while with only another $200 or so. Bigger faster hard drive and more RAM, and it's damn near on the level of current $1300-$1500 laptops.
