AMD laptop with decent graphics and XP support?

Motoman · 26th Aug 2008, 04:48 AM

Can anybody recommend a good AMD-based laptop with at least *decent* graphics and Windows XP support?

Those are the requirements...AMD and XP. Please don't post any helpful Vista and/or Intel information.

Thanks!

Adrian Wong · 26th Aug 2008, 10:36 AM

Hmm.. What's your budget like? And how "decent" do you need the graphics to be?

Will it be used to play 3D games? Or just simple online games, that kinda thing?

Motoman · 26th Aug 2008, 11:29 PM

I believe for this particular use, I'm going with the MSI MS-1634 - MSI Notebook Product Specifications

I got it barebones with a wireless card for like $600.

With the HD2600 graphics, it should nicely play lots of modern games, except for Crysis...which is fine, because no laptop that could play Crysis is anywhere near the budget I had to work with, which was about $900 fully ready to go.

I can get a decent CPU, hard drive and RAM for this unit and be within that budget, and with formal XP support I don't have to tear my hair out looking for drivers. All of the drivers for the machine are available in XP versions right from MSI.

So...let me know if I've made some terrible mistake, but I think this is the way to go. Thanks for the attention!

Lacus · 26th Aug 2008, 11:41 PM

how bout the newer puma platform laptop? I have 1 unit here (no os yet) dunno if it can be installed with XP. it's running on the new AMD Turion X2 RM-70 and ATI HD3200 gpu card

maybe i try installing xp and see if it works or not

Motoman · 27th Aug 2008, 12:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lacus

how bout the newer puma platform laptop? I have 1 unit here (no os yet) dunno if it can be installed with XP. it's running on the new AMD Turion X2 RM-70 and ATI HD3200 gpu card

maybe i try installing xp and see if it works or not

Yup - MSI makes models for that platform, but they were either unavailable, or way over the price range...but they did look sweet.

MSI Notebook Product Specifications

That one in particular - 3850 graphics!

Adrian Wong · 27th Aug 2008, 09:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lacus

how bout the newer puma platform laptop? I have 1 unit here (no os yet) dunno if it can be installed with XP. it's running on the new AMD Turion X2 RM-70 and ATI HD3200 gpu card

maybe i try installing xp and see if it works or not

You should not have a problem installing XP.

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26th Aug 2008, 11:29 PM	#3 (permalink)
Motoman Warming up Join Date: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 106 Reputation: 62 Rep Power: 2	I believe for this particular use, I'm going with the MSI MS-1634 - MSI Notebook Product Specifications I got it barebones with a wireless card for like $600. With the HD2600 graphics, it should nicely play lots of modern games, except for Crysis...which is fine, because no laptop that could play Crysis is anywhere near the budget I had to work with, which was about $900 fully ready to go. I can get a decent CPU, hard drive and RAM for this unit and be within that budget, and with formal XP support I don't have to tear my hair out looking for drivers. All of the drivers for the machine are available in XP versions right from MSI. So...let me know if I've made some terrible mistake, but I think this is the way to go. Thanks for the attention!