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Jaybear
02-26-2011, 10:21 PM
Ok I am thinking about buying a new laptop. I will be playing 20 to 30 tables at a time using Holdem Manger and Table Ninja at the same time. I want to know if there is any thing I need to upgrade with this laptop so that I wont have any lag while playing a session. The site I play on is stars and here are the details about the laptop.

•HP Factory-Refurbished Laptop / IntelŪ PentiumŪ Processor / 17.3" Display / 3GB Memory / 320GB Hard Drive

•IntelŪ PentiumŪ processor T4500
Features an 800MHz system bus, 1MB L2 cache and 2.3GHz processor speed.

•3GB DDR2 memory
For multitasking power, expandable to 8GB


320GB Serial ATA hard drive (5400 rpm)


IntelŪ Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M
Features up to 1309MB

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64-bit operating system

5-in-1 digital media reader


I am not real computer savy, but If you can point out any need upgrades that would help to make this computer preform at it best while playing running both programs. Thanks in advance

The Minder
02-26-2011, 10:42 PM
For what you want, this laptop would be totally useless.

Jaybear
02-27-2011, 11:00 AM
ok but what would I need to install to make it do what I want? Is there an upgrade or something? And if not what kind of laptop would work the best?

Patvs
02-27-2011, 07:54 PM
Are you stacking 30 tables, or playing cascaded, or playing them stacked in 4 piles (so 4 piles of each 7/8 tables stacked?) Or will you be hooking up a monitor to the laptop?

Biggest bottleneck of the laptop will be the slow 5400 RPM harddisk.
Consider to upgrade it to a SSD (Vertex 2 / Intel X25-M) and the laptop should be more than fast enough for your poker needs.

Jaybear
02-28-2011, 05:55 PM
I will be stacking my tables in 4 stacks and I will be hooking a extra monitor up to play on. I might consider just buying a laptop with a SSD if they are available.

and how many GB would be fine 60,80,120?

Patvs
02-28-2011, 08:25 PM
Windows + Office + large poker database, you'll need at least 80 GB.

Also, if you are hooking up a monitor to the laptop, notice the Intel 4500M is the slowest graphics chip compared to other more modern integrated chipsets like the GeForce 9400M or the Radeon HD 3200.