Ultra mobile

im really looking into getting a ultra mobile lappy, but there are alot of choices out there that im into.

my main choice is the eepc of course, but i have 1 question that google cannot answer.

what are the video capabilities on this sucker? can it render games? can it play CoD:UO??? Pac-Man? Doki Doki panic?

anyone have one or know of its power??

what's wrong w/ a dell? i have a 6 mo old dell latitude and it's pretty small. 14" screen, 2gb ram, 100gbb hdd. i have no problems carrying it around in my bag.

too big...im looking for small....small...small

but w/ small small small, you're going to have a decrease in funcionality. i like having a dvd-rw drive, usb ports, and typing room on my laptop.

well i have a giant tower at home for all that, i jsut want something that i can pop out at work and bust out some view, maybe some CoD (dont get caught!) and not have a giant sized device

if you could bust out some suggestions that would smaller but not as spensive then do share

Macbook Air!

small small small gets you integrated GPU. Cooling a mobile GPU is hard work in a laptop. The smaller the computer, the harder. If you are looking at a small notebook, I would imagin it would be possible to play those games.

If you are trying to go along the lines of a big PDA sized, you'd have to check to see what type of hardware it has. Sometimes it has it's own GPU sometimes it relizes on the CPU.

JKA those games will run fine on integrated graphics.

I was thinking the same thing as you at first but thats the original cod, and its not a very demanding game. You would have to keep an eye out for which integrated video it has though, as some are better than others.

Hey, I'm going back to university in september so i thought that I'd start looking for a lappy to do my final year on. My current lappy is on its way out (has been for a while) and its also really cumbersome (5 years old...HEAVY!)

So here is my thought. I would like something with the portability of the Lenovo X60 but with an optical drive. It really gets on my wick that there isn't a version from them with a DVD without buying their dock.

I was looking at the Toshiba R500 and thought 'AHH finally found it!' But then i looked at the price and thought 'Nah im good without'

A prime example of what I'm looking for is the ibook G4 12" machine. Its a really beautiful machine that has a decent sized keyboard and a DVD! there are only two flaws, the OS and the spec. Its too old for my uses now, true its only coz I'm a geek and love leading edge stuff. Money isn't *too* much of an issue coz I've been saving up although still I don't want to pay the earth I am still a student.

I was also looking at the Sony Vaio SZ series. Its slightly bigger at 13.3" which means that there is a full sized keyboard which is great and it has a fairly decent gpu too. Again the only thing is the price.

Get a macbook.

The OS (Mac) shouldn't be a reason not to get it. For a laptop around uni and stuff its perfect. You can always load xp or vista on it as well if you decide that you want that later as well.

It's not a super ultra portable but weight is no issue with mine (They run just about 5 lbs), but with mac os it will just keep running at running.

Price costs you anywhere from $1000+ and make sure to look into student discounts because that can save you a chunk of change too.