Laptops that run HalfLife2

[slimfandango]

Are there any laptops out there that are suitable for hardcore gaming? Is it possible to upgrade laptop graphics cards? Cheers

[Team Cor]

no.

[j2buttonsw]

Yes, they are producing gamer orientated laptops see http://news.com.com/Notebooks+make+a+play+as+gamer+machines/2100-1044_3-5157648.html?tag=nl but they ain't cheap. As for upgrading your video chip: they are hard-wired onto the laptop mainboard so unless you are exceptionally good with a soldering iron on a 4 ply circuit board, I would say no, it is not possible to upgrade.

[khana]

As it happens there are a few laptops that allow you to upgrade the graphics on them, the manufacturer that come to mind initially is alienware. I believe they use a proprietry format though and are marketed as gamers laptops with an accorfingly expensive price.

My current laptop has a mobility radeon 9700 graphics chipset and this manages to run pretty much all the recent games such as half life 2 and doom 3. There is also some newer chipsets out this month from both ATI and Nvidia that will give much better performance and they will be using a new graphics module which will be interchangable as it is based on the new PCI express sockets for laptops.