Laptop advice

[beskippy]

My wife wants us to get a somewhat inexpensive laptop, mostly to be used during travel to surf the web, check email, and play a few games.  I was thinking something with an NVidia 8400G or GS, or ideally a 8600GT.  Screen of 14.1" or 15.4", 1 GB RAM (2 is nice, not necessary), 80-120GB HD, CD-RW/DVD-ROM is fine, etc.  Expected games to be played

Comments

[zqfmbg]

The NV drivers as downloaded from the NV website won't install on laptops. I guess the reason is that they want to strongly push support onto the laptop manufacturers. It's the same hardware sitting on the same bus.

You have two choices:

A) force the installation, or
B) go to some place like laptopvideo2go.com and get an updated INF (which is really the only thing blocking install)

[beskippy]

Most of the games we'll be playing won't be the latest-greatest, so I'm hoping that the drivers thing will be a moot point in the long run.

[beskippy]

I was tempted by that, and even running our games on Windows on a MacBook, it still just has the ATI Xpress1150 video... which I could get for a lot less on a boring Wintel/WinAMD box.