Originally Posted by Ejector
I am about to buy a new laptop, (logistically I need a laptop unfortunately).
Now the hypercritical bit, I don’t want a high end machine, but I want to run FS2004, with a CH yoke and two external Monitors.
Does any one know of any good ideas to achieve this at a decent price?
Thanks
A laptop is fine, but anything less than top end and you'll be unhappy. A fast graphics card is essential and these usually only come on high end machines (>£1500).
Check out the Dell XPS or Inspiron 9400 for good systems. You ahve to make a trade off between screen resolutions too. I go for the highest possible (1900x1200), but this taxes the graphics card even more.
All that said, I've been running FS9 on an Inspiron 8600 with a Nvidia 5650 GPU and it runs ok with no fancy scenery or AI traffic.