Out of Pod Experience

Hi all, I've never played EVE or any other highly graphical games on anything but a desktop computer, but I'm curious about the possibility of gaming laptops. I guess I just never believed it was possible for a laptop to really perform adequately for gaming, but I was talking to a guy in Best Buy who swears they're up to the task.

So I'd like to ask if anyone out there is playing EVE on a laptop, and what do you think of it? Can the $1200 models handle it? Can you run all the high-end effects? What about running two instances of EVE at the same time, i.e. a main character and an alt?

I'm a Windows and Linux user, but if you're playing EVE on a Mac laptop I'd also be interested to hear about it.

I have three kids under age 4, who love pulling on wires and pushing switches in the back of the computer, so it'd be great to make the switch if this option is really usable.

Your advice matches my intuition, but I am old and remember laptops that I bought in the 1990s and 2000s. Maybe we are indeed outdated. I'd like to hear what the young whippersnappers think about the issue.

You'd be better off to learn how to kid-proof your home and stick with a desktop.

If you are used to a decent monitor, the 13" to 17" of a laptop will drive you bonkers. I often log in on a 13" laptop just to set up market orders and it drives me nuts. I can't even imagine trying to do combat on one.

I manged to raise two kids a year apart and never had a problem with them pulling out plugs and poking around under my desk. The worst I had was trying to clean the drool off the keyboard and mouse. And that was with a full HOTAS set up for combat flight sims.

Mr Epeen

i have twin 4yold boys,
a tower will be much harder to hurt than a laptop...
that they can pick up and throw...
and hit each other with...
(r.i.p think pad)



unless you want it for travel (lol)

I had a "gaming laptop" once, it sucked and died after a few months.

In my honest opinion there is no such thing as a gaming laptop, my rather new work laptop gets hot just running windows 8.1 and Microsoft Office.

I would recommend building a new desktop machine.

Looks good, thanks.

And I guess I've got to check out Far Cry 4!

I played EVE on a Dell XPS Gen 2 laptop from 2005. As long as it doesn't use integrated video, you should be fine.

Here I go:

I have a desktop that plays eve.. but that's not this topic

I also have:

Asus (I forget the model, its not right in front of me) with an i7, nividia card (again not in front of me) with 2gb of dedicated ram, and 8 gigs of ram. I got it for 999 at best buy, and it plays eve well. Though I have not done a lot with it, as I need to hoop up my mouse, but one client on high did not lag.

I also have an Asus t200ta (transformer book) and in testing it played eve on low settings with not much lag. But I don't think i'll use it for eve for more then checking mail, market, and maybe scanning.

Honestly, most can handle eve on low settings if the graphics is not integrated. I had two integrated laptops and they would choke on eve.

Did you ever try running two clients at once, i.e. a main and an alt?

Old types of Dominator or such those thing are single fan w arctic blast boost cool me long time...... translation it will melt thermal paste within a year and than will eat silicon in chips,and die on desktop screen due to temps.....