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sarafan   03-18-2008 at 07:25:45 PM

just ordered one of these (for reasons other than gaming), and was curious about its polygon pushing potential. anyone reading have prior experience in the area? im mainly curious about the sony vaio tz series, but any info would be nice. i realize that, as there's no dedicated video memory on these things, i prolly dont have much to look forward to other than solitaire heh

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2 GB ocz ti alpha ddr2 1000 @ 620 mhz (1:1) | nvidia 8800 GT |
ocz 700 watt | western digital 320 gb (2) | dual dell 2407 rev A04 |
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aziraphale   03-19-2008 at 11:20:52 AM
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Well I suppose Java and Flash games would be your weapon of choice...

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Scotteq   03-20-2008 at 01:23:09 PM
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Well.... I guess you could hope the rumors of external GPU's come true sooner rather than later....

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sarafan   03-20-2008 at 04:42:45 PM
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observing that you both begin with "well", im glad my expectations weren't too high to begin with heh. i did run across a blog where some guy was running Guild Wars on a sony tz series with no major issues (low resolution settings tho), so perhaps it won't be a total no show. i plan on throwing on sins of a solar empire when i receive it (today), and will post the results. thx for the replies!

------------------------------ core 2 extreme x6800 @ 3.4GHz | zalman 9500 | p5w dh deluxe |
2 GB ocz ti alpha ddr2 1000 @ 620 mhz (1:1) | nvidia 8800 GT |
ocz 700 watt | western digital 320 gb (2) | dual dell 2407 rev A04 |
thermaltake armor 8003bws w/ side fan
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ubermoose   03-20-2008 at 04:49:11 PM
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From the looks of it the Asus EEE does a pretty good job of it: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=5576

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crom   03-20-2008 at 06:53:51 PM
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The new iPhone SDK makes one nice ultra portable gaming platform. You Tube the Sega and EA presentations.

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sarafan   03-21-2008 at 02:49:00 PM
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thanks for the link ubermoose, very informative. that asus eee is actually more of an ultraportable than my tz, yet it was able to play homeworld/diablo 2 etc! i may have some gaming to look forward to after all hah

i received the sony tz last night and found it to be loaded with bloatware (windows Vista inclusive). also it also looks like a good portion of the 64gb SSD is taken up by a hidden partition containing what i assume to be the OS, which explains why Vista didn't come as an installation disc. one piece of good news is XP DID come on disk, 2 disks actually. so its gonna take a bit longer to get some games up and running but will post when i do.. i figure someone else might be in the same boat as i at some point

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The new iPhone SDK makes one nice ultra portable gaming platform. You Tube the Sega and EA presentations.



as the happy owner of an iphone myself i'll admit i'm really excited about the open SDK too. im more than willing to clear off some of my mp3s in exchange for space for what can only be some awesome games in the future

------------------------------ core 2 extreme x6800 @ 3.4GHz | zalman 9500 | p5w dh deluxe |
2 GB ocz ti alpha ddr2 1000 @ 620 mhz (1:1) | nvidia 8800 GT |
ocz 700 watt | western digital 320 gb (2) | dual dell 2407 rev A04 |
thermaltake armor 8003bws w/ side fan
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