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#1 RuutuTootoo
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I basically "inherited" a few months old Macbook Pro from a family member. I don't game much, but there are still the odd times where I do want to do some gaming. You guys are the pros with this stuff, so I thought I'd ask here. How will my laptop perform with the newest games (not looking at the highest end stuff like Crysis)?

I've already got Windows XP installed on it, so performance will be on par with a Windows laptop with the same hardware.

Specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.2 ghz
GeForce 8600M GT 128mb (notice that it's the mobile version. What is it comparible to in terms of desktop video cards?)
2GB ram

Thanks for any info you guys can provide :)

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#2 RuutuTootoo
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WoW just seems like a waste of time and money...smarb001
One could say the same about Gears of War or the Halo series. Seriously, have you ever played WoW, or played it enough to justify your comment? I'm not saying you should enjoy it or anything, as everyone has their own preferences as to which genre of video games they enjoy, but blindly commenting about a game is just nonsense. It's like if I went into a Gears of War thread, and started saying stuff like "Wow, what's so great about this shooting game? All you do is shoot people and stuff. Isn't that just like the original Half-Life, a game I played many years ago?"
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Plenty of people playing Guild Wars series of games still and no monthly fee ($15.00 for WoW) is nice also. $15.00 x 12 months you can do the math.AngelB1ack
Yes, $180 dollars. Or you can also look at it this way: $15 x 50 years = $9000! But when it's all said and done, it's 50 cents a day. If you play it and enjoy it, the monthly fee is almost non-existent. If you don't enjoy playing it, the monthly fee is like a tumor. That's why I recommend to the original poster to download WoW and try the free 10-day trial (no need for credit card or anything like that. Just make an account after you finish downloading)
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If you're looking for a full blown MMORPG, Guild Wars is not the game for you. In fact, the game play is so shallow, I would even rank Runescape as having loads more depth than it. The game's just very bare, both in terms of character configuration as well as the number of people playing.

The game basically has you go on "Retrieve X and bring it back to me" quests, over and over. Now, a lot of MMORPG's such as WoW is like this, but that's ALL Guild Wars has to offer. Finish quest 1, go to quest 2, quest 3, 4, 5, etc. Then there's the lvl 20 character cap. I personally find this to be extremely flawed. I played 3/4 through Guild Wars Factions, and my character was pretty much "maxed out" in terms of spells and such. I just didn't ever have the feeling that the character was mine. I didn't feel a special bond in leveling it. I was a level 20 character, just like everyone else playing the game. The last pet pieve I have with the game is that it loads a copy of the game world for you whenever you and/or your party members exit a city into the "world". It's like playing World of Warcraft's instances only. There's nobody to talk to or interact with, other than your possible 7 other party members. And lets not get into the imbalances when dealing with party formation. I was an Elementalist. Nobody wanted the elementalist. It was all about the priest and tanks. So more often than not, you'd have to get the NPC characters to join your party, which defeats the whole purpose of an online RPG. It's as if Guild Wars is an offline RPG, with minor online elements tacked on, such as selling items and forming parties for quests. If you enjoy developing your character and make it truly your own, Guild Wars is absolutely not the game you're looking for. In fact, WoW recently added Battlegrounds, which basically is their version of Guild War's structured PVP play. You can also join PVP servers, where everyone on the opposing side is "fair game" in 95% of the world. If that's not your cup of tea, you can join PVE servers, where you can "flag" yourself for a bit of PVP action.

What I recommend you do instead, is download a free 10 day trial for World of Warcraft, and see how you like it. I believe they can be found on www.worldofwarcraft.com. If you can't find it, feel free to send me a PM, and I'll give you one of my invitation trials. Sure, the $15 monthly fee looks like a money drain, but I guarantee you won't feel the effects after you start playing. I mean, come on, it's $15. That's 50 cents a day. Unless you're still a child relying on your parent's financial support (which I can fully understand), there's absolutely no reason why anyone who ENJOYS the game, can't shell out $15 a month.
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Just had a little discussion with a friend of mine, and we were talking about RAM in computers. Will the amount of RAM continue to double every couple of years like it has been for a while now? 1-2 GB is the standard right now, and 512mb was the standard like two years ago. By standard, I mean for the average home user, and not hardcore gamers (the amount of ram preinstalled in computers from the manufacturer).

At this rate, will we see 4GB of ram in 2008, 8GB in 2010, 16GB in 2012, etc.? Seems like a huge overkill to me, that we might have 16GB of ram installed in standard computers sold in 2012.

I mean, 512 to 1GB is only a 512 increase. 1GB to 2GB is a 1GB increase, 2GB to 4GB is a 2GB increase, etc. We're exponentially increasing here, and it was in my opinion that we just won't be seeing this trend continue. At this rate, we'll have 64GB ram computers in 2016, a mere 10 years from now. If you compare computers from 1996 to 2006, you're probably looking at 128mb vs. 1gb ram. That's only 10 times as much. While if we compare 2006 to 2016, that's nearly 32x as much.

Insight please?


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I think my point is: will we start to see smaller increments, like 2GB to 3GB?  Something that has never happened before (pre-installed in computers). 
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