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America's Army on PB 17'
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Jersey City, NJ
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Hi,
Does anybody here play America's Army on their PB laptop? Can you share your experience? Do you use a joystick for the game? If so, what kind do you suggest?
Thanks.
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PB.17.1Ghz - iPod.10G
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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I just got a 1.5 17incher and I must say its a total dissapointment with games. America's Army runs like crap. Halo, ut2004 runs like crap too. Thank god I found someone to buy my laptop so I can buy a dell or maybe alienware notebooks. Haven't really decided on which yet. I stick to my G5 for work and getting a PC for play. Just dont rely on Powerbooks to play any games even if they have ATI 9700 which makes no difference at all compare to their old 9600.
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Bay Area of San Jose
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Originally posted by xCubex:
I just got a 1.5 17incher and I must say its a total dissapointment with games. America's Army runs like crap. Halo, ut2004 runs like crap too. Thank god I found someone to buy my laptop so I can buy a dell or maybe alienware notebooks. Haven't really decided on which yet. I stick to my G5 for work and getting a PC for play. Just dont rely on Powerbooks to play any games even if they have ATI 9700 which makes no difference at all compare to their old 9600.
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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Wow, with no disrespect intended... sucks to be you!
I am currently playing Call of Duty on a 1.5Ghz PB and it runs great in high settings, as does Medal of Honor, Max Payne, Undying, Command and Conquer, Tony Hawk, Jedi Academy, and of course... chess!
The only one I have been disappointed with is Halo, but I have played it on a Mac and on a PC, and both ports have performance issues! I play Halo in 1280 x 854 resolution with no Pixel Shaders or FSAA and everything on Medium or in some cases low. It runs not too bad, but no where near as well as Call of Duty is running.
The only decent place to get the full Halo effect is on an XBOX!
Cheers,
James
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: England | San Francisco
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Originally posted by javabeans:
Hi,
Do you use a joystick for the game?
Thanks.
A joystick? its a first person shooter... keyboard and mouse are the best combo. not trackpad
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we don't have time to stop for gas
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Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: London, UK
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Wow, you have a 17 FOOT LAPTOP?! And people thought the 17 inch one was pushing portability...
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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Originally posted by xCubex:
I just got a 1.5 17incher and I must say its a total dissapointment with games. America's Army runs like crap. Halo, ut2004 runs like crap too. Thank god I found someone to buy my laptop so I can buy a dell or maybe alienware notebooks. Haven't really decided on which yet. I stick to my G5 for work and getting a PC for play. Just dont rely on Powerbooks to play any games even if they have ATI 9700 which makes no difference at all compare to their old 9600.
Hmmm. Too bad cause even playing WoW my 12" PB is fabulous!
I heard those new portable Intel chips are real screamers compared to a PowerPC chip. <sarcasm/>
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Champaign, IL
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My friend, a "switcher", bought an Alienware laptop for games, and he says it was the worst decision he's ever made. The thing is nothing but problems.
And, did you get the update for UT2004? There was a bad bug that made the sound cause lag on single processor Macs.
You'd think with all these Mac users wanting to buy PCs for games, there would be more PC users wanting to buy Macs for actual use!
-Ryan
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800mhz 15" Flat Panel iMac G4, 32mb GeForce2MX, OS X (10.3), Maxtor 120gb & 250gb FireWire HDs, FireWire Zip 250, iSight
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Penfield, NY
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Well, although the 10.3.4 update seemed to kill my PB for games for a while there, the glitch seems to have worked itself out...or something. For some reason everything is working fine again. UT, UT 2004, Halo all run great on my new 12". That's too bad that you're getting rid of that 17" just because you can't figure out how to play games correctly on it. 
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Specs:12" PowerBook-1.33GHz, 768 PC2700, Airport Express, Panther (10.3.9), iSight, 15GB 3G iPod
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