Hardy Posted May 4, 2011 Report Share Posted May 4, 2011 (edited) Hello there,I have to buy a new laptop, because my old one doesn't start anymore .Now I am searching for a new one, which is not too expensive and which has to be relativly small (14"...15") to be portable. Except of some other use cases, I want to use this laptop for first steps in development of 0AD. E.g. when I'm sitting in a train, I want to be able to edit some code, compile it and test it. Most of the affordable and portable laptops have an i3 or i5-Core with about 4GB RAM and an Intel HD- Graphics chip. Before I'm buying such a laptop, I want to ask you, if anyone has experience in working with the i-Core and Intel HD combination? Is the game runnable and testable on this hardware? Playing with eye-candy-graphics is not intended (since I've got a desktop system also), but mobile development is my intention. Could you recommend the Intel HD or should I search for a laptop with a dedicated graphics card?Greetings,Hardy Edited May 4, 2011 by Hardy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabio Posted May 4, 2011 Report Share Posted May 4, 2011 I don't have an Intel HD graphics chip, but rather than 2010 i3 and i5 I would consider the newer Sandy Bridge i3 and i5 (the 2xxx series): their HD graphics 3000 GPU have far better graphics performance:http://www.anandtech.com/show/4084/intels-sandy-bridge-upheaval-in-the-mobile-landscape/5The AMD Fusion E-350 also have a nice GPU (faster than Intel HD graphics but slower than the newer HD 2000/3000) but the CPU is a lot slower (Atom like) and not suggested for developing purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ykkrosh Posted May 4, 2011 Report Share Posted May 4, 2011 I do all my development work on a laptop with Intel GMA 4500MHD (an earlier generation than Intel HD Graphics), on almost Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz (technically a Pentium Dual-Core) and 4GB RAM. I think it was £400 when new, and it seems perfectly adequate. The game usually runs at somewhere around 20-30fps at 1024x768 (windowed) with shadows/fancywater disabled, which is not ideal for smooth playing but is fine for development and testing, and the graphics drivers on Linux seem stable enough (I've not tried running Windows). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteTreePaladin Posted May 4, 2011 Report Share Posted May 4, 2011 It works "ok" on the HD 2000, but you'll probably want to turn shadows and reflective water off for performance. Also, there is a graphical glitch in the reflective water on the Intel drivers (a wavy black vertical line in the the middle of the screen). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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