The M2TW hardware thread: please post all hardware queries here

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Thanks for the answers earlier. I'm not sure what benefit having core2 is for M2:TW because AFAIK M2 does not use the capacity of dual core. That's what I gathered anyway.

I have one more question: What is the BEST (money no object.. I hope) LAPTOP for gaming?. That is a normal sized laptop which I can work on AND play games at MAXIMUM MAXIMUM MAXIMUM settings.

Well, my old specs were:

P4 2.8GHz
512MB (really bad, 266MHz) DDR RAM
64BM GeForce Go FX 5600

Now I got:

Pentium Core2Duo 2.16 GHz @ 667MHz
2GB 667MHz DDR2 RAM
256MB GeForce Go 7800GS

Both laptops.
My new one can run M2TW on near max settings (I prefer below max because I rather want smoothness than visuals) and have other progs running in the background and have no probs tabbing out of M2TW to do other stuff at the same time at all. So while M2TW may not be using the second core, you can.

Funny aside is that the game will keep telling me reinforcements delayed quite often even though I got no problems running a large scale custom battle for instance.