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March 8, 2005
My Ultimate Gaming Machine
Every gamer has their own definition of what exactly is "The Ultimate Gaming Machine." Of course, this definition evolves, little by little, every month.
For me, that definition begins with the word, "Notebook" (or laptop, if you prefer). Think I'm crazy? Read on.
The main reason I want to play games on a laptop is convenience. I really enjoy getting together with my buddies for a LAN party. Since I have had the largest monitors out of most of my gaming friends, we usually have held such parties at my place (also, since I have a good LAN, plenty of power & data cables as well as folding tables, a big file server with all the updates to the games already downloaded and a nice fat DSL connection )).
However, we still always ended up spending time getting some people's boxes running right.
Enter the notebook. These things are always traveling, so they are already set up to connect to whatever network is available. I do not have to haul around any heavy gear (my Princeton Graphics Ultra 20 weighs something like 80 pounds!).
With a notebook, I am set up and ready to go just as fast as I can pull it out of the travel bag, plug in the mouse, power and LAN, press the power button and finish booting.
Still, my dual Opteron system at home rocks when playing games. Guess I'll still have to have the LAN parties over there from time to time :).
Posted by lamontp at March 8, 2005 7:41 PM
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