That Dell 1501 again - any good for games

gr1340

I want to get a laptop for my stepson. Its going to be used for the internet mainly but also to play some games and the max I can go to is £400. I want a new one so therefore the Dell 1501 springs to mind.
I am not talking about it running the latest games but ones that are a few years old such as Virtual Springfield, Midtown Madness and Motorcross Madness. Having a quick look at Motorcross Madness 2 the min specs say:
recommended PII 300+with at least 64MB RAM & 8MB video acceleration. Win95 or higher with DirectX 7.

Now the Dell easily reaches these specs so I guess he won't have a problem running it will he.

I note it comes with a ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 256MB HyperMemory which after reading up about it, sounds quite good.

Anybody had experience of this laptop?

Cheers

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

You've pretty much covered it all yourself.

It should do just fine for what you want it for. Some newer games will still run OK, you might just have to turn down a lot of the graphical effects for it to run at a decent pace.

gr1340

Thought so. Even though I knew I just wanted someone to agree. I mean even Star Wars Battle Front 2 only requires the following:
Minimum spec: 3D Graphics Card
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Pentium 4 or equivalent
256 MB RAM
Graphics Card (Windows Compatible)
Graphics Card 64 MB
Sound Card (Direct X 9.0c Compatible)
Direct X 9.0c
4.3 GB Free Hard Disk Space Required

Again, it can meet that.
Anyway I have bought it now (what a lucky lad) and I could give it another 512mb RAM for about £30.

Thank you

-TangleFoot-

gr1340 wrote:

I note it comes with a ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 256MB HyperMemory which after reading up about it, sounds quite good.

Did you read up about HyperMemory too?

gr1340

I didn't read about it in Wikipedia but I understood that it took used the RAM for the PC which is why I thought about upgrading it to 1024mb.
Obviously I would have prefered a dedicated card as I have in my Toshiba M70 but funds did not allow for that.
Thanks for all your help everyone.