How is my PC?

[BenKenobi88]

rasone77 said:
@ Fazz, BenKenobi and everyone else naysaying laptops.

I've been playing Bioshock, Call of Duty 4, Orange Box, Mass Effect, and NWN2 using directX 10 and Vista with no more trouble than I ever had playing games on a desktop. The trick is making sure you cool the hell out of it with a cooling fan. (I use a Zelman ZM-NC2000)

Laptop relative specs:
2.2 Intel Core 2 duo
2 GB DDR3 RAM
NVidia 8600GM 256 RAM
17in HD LCD display

The OP's laptop, however, is garbage for game playing and it's doubtful he'll even be able to upgrade the video card in it, but good luck.

I'm not naysaying laptops...I myself want to get a gaming-capable laptop for general purposes, as well as being able to play games with at least good settings if I'm ever away from home.

I'm not saying laptops can't play games, but your price-to-performance ratio with laptops compared to desktops is crap. 

Your average laptop will not be built for gaming, and you'll pay much more for a laptop such as yours than a desktop with similar specs.

For instance your laptop probably cost around $1000?  I know putting decent graphics into a laptop knocks up the price, and you apparently have a high quality screen...that adds up too.  An equivalent desktop PC would probably cost $500 including a 17" LCD.  And that's understandable, because laptops are always more expensive...they're portable and costly to upgrade, that's just how it is.