behemoth14
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I intend to get a new laptop in the near future (no room for a desktop PC at the moment) so I'm hoping that those in the know could offer some advice on specs.
The basic specs I'm looking at are:
The storage on models I'm considering seem to be either a 1 Tb 5400 rpm SATA HDD or 1 Tb 5400 rpm SATA HDD + 24 Gb SSD.
Given TS12 is a 32-bit program, the 8 Gb of RAM is fine. Most laptops I'm looking at appear to be upgradeable to 16 Gb RAM (nice for when TANE comes out).
Some questions I have:
How would Trainz perform on a laptop running these specs?
Does TS12 run on Windows 8?
Any other advice on laptop spec selection?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: Sorry, the thread title got a little mangled!
The basic specs I'm looking at are:
- 4th-gen. Intel Core i7-4700MQ (2.4 GHz); 8 Gb RAM; 2 Gb NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M graphics.
The storage on models I'm considering seem to be either a 1 Tb 5400 rpm SATA HDD or 1 Tb 5400 rpm SATA HDD + 24 Gb SSD.
Given TS12 is a 32-bit program, the 8 Gb of RAM is fine. Most laptops I'm looking at appear to be upgradeable to 16 Gb RAM (nice for when TANE comes out).
Some questions I have:
- I'd prefer to get a 7200 rpm drive but most laptops currently seem to be equipped with a 5400 rpm drive. The 7200 rpm drives are obviously better (faster) but does it really make much of a difference to Trainz performance?
- Some of the HP laptops have the additional 24 Gb SSD which I assume is for the software. However, I'm thinking a large Trainz installation could easily require more than half this space. Can I install Trainz on the accompanying 1 Tb drive or would it be better just to get a laptop with only one drive?
- Is there much of a difference quality-wise between, say, ASUS and HP given equivalent models have nearly identical specs?
- Is the 2 Gb NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M sufficient for running Trainz (I'm not sure where it is on a scale of low-end to high-end mobile graphics cards)? I guess the answer to this question also depends on how I tweak the graphics settings in Trainz itself.
How would Trainz perform on a laptop running these specs?
Does TS12 run on Windows 8?
Any other advice on laptop spec selection?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: Sorry, the thread title got a little mangled!