Improving my laptop for gaming...

[PanzerJaeger]

Well I just bought Red Orchestra: Ostfront and its really good. It puts Call of Duty, BF2 and all the other FPS cartoons to shame. Problem is, my desktop is in the shop indefinately and I have to play on my laptop...

It runs OK but id like to see if there is anything I can buy to make it better in terms of graphics cards, memory, ect. I dont know much about all that.

I have a HP Compaq nw8240 Mobile Workstation (PZ848UA). The specs are:

Processor, operating system and memory
Operating systems installed
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional

Processor type*
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 770

Processor features
2.13 GHz, 2-MB L2 cache, 533-MHz front side bus

Memory, std.
1024 MB

Video
Display type
15.4 inch WSXGA+ WVA

Display resolution
Supports: 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 768, 1280 x 1024, or 1600 x 1200 resolutions up to 100-Hz refresh rate dependent upon monitor capability, resolution and color depth settings.

video adapter card
ATI Mobility Fire GL V5000 graphics controller with 128 MB of video memory, OpenGL support

Storage
CD drive type
DVD+/- RW Drive

Hard drive, internal
80 GB (5400 rpm)


Any help those computer literate types could provide would be very helpful. Money isnt a problem.

Thanks for any help!

[Beirut]

Holy Jumpin'! Haven't seen you around here in a while.

I'll move this over to the Hardware & Software forum and see if someone can help you there.

[Ice]

I'm not an expert, but adding stuff to a laptop is usually expensive and hard. I would just wait for your desktop.