News, Windows XP Departs: Good Riddance or Sad Farewell?

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by Brian.Pearson

unseengundam, Maybe next time you go to MS and it asks if you have comments or whatever, you can tell them all that.

Microsoft is not exactly known for listening to user feedback.

[bchris02]

Originally Posted by 70Ford

And I can't play Gears of War on it. It keeps locking up after a few seconds. I have the right drivers. Vista just hates Gears of War on a Toshiba, I suppose.

I think your problem is trying to play Gears of War on a laptop with a mobile CPU NOT designed for gaming and weak integrated graphics. Regular off-the-shelf laptops are not optimized for gaming whatsoever. They do have gaming laptops, but they are very expensive and consume a lot more power.

[Brian.Pearson]

There are still some older games which would probably work, and they might not be very expensive.

[70Ford]

Originally Posted by bchris02

I think your problem is trying to play Gears of War on a laptop with a mobile CPU NOT designed for gaming and weak integrated graphics. Regular off-the-shelf laptops are not optimized for gaming whatsoever. They do have gaming laptops, but they are very expensive and consume a lot more power.

1.8 Gig Centrino Duo, 2 MB L2 cache. 4 gig ram installed, 3,143,360 available. Geforce 8700 GT graphics card. Power options is set to high performance with CPU set to 100 percent, ermm...every Vista bell and whistle turned off, most by hand..but the others with TWEAK VI.... and most services turned off..and all that startup crap turned off. I think it should be able to handle Gears of War. It handles Call of Duty like a champ. It's a Toshiba X205-S9439...had it since last August.

Edit...

Speaking of power..you should see this power supply for this thing..Its the size of a red brick. I mean literally....its the size of a brick.