Bought a new laptop, pretty much the same speed as my other laptop, maybe a little slower. Was $185 after shipping. The battery is dead though, but you can buy one on ebay for $50. Doesn’t have a wireless card, but you can get one of those for $25, not sure how much on ebay, thats on compusa.com. Don’t need one though, thats what my old wireless B game adapter is for, might buy one eventually, just not right away. Oh wait… It has a mini pci slot, meaning I might be able to plug my old wireless card into it! Sweet, now I don’t have to use the game adapter. Hmm maybe not, not sure if its mini pci. Don’t think it is, doesn’t pci have a connection on the bottom, and not some cable. Oh yeah and I think the attena is in the laptop screen. So I’d have to pull it out or something, and somehow put it into the other one. Oh yeah it also comes with xp pro, lots of pirates software, or they don’t include the cds for it, so that means OEM right? OEM version of Adobe CS2, and a whole bunch of other stuff. OEM versions of games too. Figured my old wireless card out, its a internal usb card. So only if the laptop has internal usb, and a place to put it, won’t be worth the trouble. I’ll just use my old wireless B game adapter.
Gateway Solo 9550
That seller also has a Gateway 600YG2 2.4ghz laptop, but I don’t have enough. Plus it has a dead battery too, so I don’t think its worth it. Its sold, didn’t take long since I first saw it, glad I got the other one. Removed the link, shouldn’t offer free advertising. I never should of provided any links. It would be free advertising, even know its sold, because you can click view other items, even know they don’t have any other items yet, but I’m sure they will. So you could just bookmark it and go back. Hmm maybe I should bookmark it, look for other bargains, and a laptop battery, and some ram.
Before upgrading the ram, I’m going to buy a battery, before buying a battery, I’m going to get money somehow… Probably do work for somebody, or just wait till I get a job. After I get a battery and more ram, then I will buy a wireless card, you can get a pcmcia linksys card from newegg for $20.
Lets see the total amount I’ll end up spending on this laptop….
$185 – laptop
$66 – new battery, the battery from the site Gateway links to for replacement parts has the battery for $119.
$25.29 – wireless card with shipping
Total: $276.29
Hmm… Well at least I’m not spending that much right away. It’ll take a lot of time. Yes you can buy a better laptop for around $270, but the battery will be used, and probably won’t be very good, and no warranty or anything on the battery. So you would end up spending more then that. So its still cheaper to buy this laptop, unless you have more money then me.
Not adding the memory in yet, as I don’t know if it has two 128 MB sticks, or one 256 MB stick. Most likely it has two 128 MB sticks. So it might be a little pricey to upgrade the ram.
The Gateway Solo 9550 meets the requirements for The Sims 2. Would have to play with the lowest settings. My old laptop couldn’t play The Sims 2, as it has built in video. Would probably have to upgrade the ram too.
The Sims 2 Requirements
Hmm wonder which are the real specs for this laptop, this or this. I rather it be the second one, as processors are easier to find for it. I guess there’s different models of the gateway solo 9550 . I’ll have to wait until I get it, and look in the bios, it should say the bus speed, and I can also run siw.
More about running The Sims 2 on it, I found this on google. At the end of the thread they said it worked, but they don’t say what. It could mean the driver installed and worked, or the driver installed and worked, and the game worked too. It probably means both the game and the driver worked, since thats what it was about. They didn’t say if the game was actually playable or anything though. Maybe on low settings. I don’t need to go searching for the nvidia driver, as gateway has the video card driver on their site. I tried searching nvidia’s site for the hell of it, and none of the drivers say they support the nvidia geforce 2 go card. I think one of the linux drivers says it does, but they don’t seem to have a windows driver on their site for it. So don’t bother going to nvidia for a nvidia geforce 2 go card, go to your laptop’s manufactures site. They should have the driver unless their a shitty brand. The sad thing is my broken $700 or was it $800 laptop couldn’t really play any games. It has some kind of sis on board video.
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