That is also a special point when considering a laptop. I hope its not to loud to disturb you. I read a review on a G1S and it said it should be a powerfull Gamingmachine. At least this one has a superb video processor.

I thought newer games run on Vista. What Vista version is it?

At least GC 2 should run.

Looks like a nice machine. The only thing it lacks that I'd want to add is a wide screen display, but it looks like the trade of is a longer battery life. Congrats on your new laptop. By the way, I get the impression you are German, since you used the phrase "I go to University", as in "um Universität".

Quadro and FireGL are Workstation Graphics for mainstream 3D CG apps like Maya, 3D Studio Max, Cinema 4D, XSI, and certain others. These are not gaming/consumer graphics chips.

Well that is for what they where designed. And Lenovo doesn't make pure gaming machines. But still you can also use them for games.



In his profile it says Canada. But of course that does not rule out that he is German. By the way i am German.

I suppose the OP could "downgrade" to XP. I reloaded mine and it was a real PITA. Laptops have so many special devices, it's a real chore to find and install all the drivers. Better make sure ASUS has them posted. Anyway, there shouldn't be any problem running Crysis on Vista. In fact, Crysis is one of the first of the DX10 games and that *requires* Vista. DX10 is not available for XP. Crysis runs in DX9 mode on that OS.

Nope, but good guess.



Clearly my profile betrays my anonymity.



Vista, Home Premium.

Vista, from what I understand, is quirky and doesn't work quite right yet. Plus I heard that it has extreme built in DRM stuff that will wipe a partition if it detects a file there trying to fiddle with one of its files. This could something harmless as an amataur programer trying to use a copy command or something.

I'm not sure of the exact details. I've avoided Vista up to this point. I didn't care for it due to the bad reviews. I've only recently played with it because it came with my labtop. I'm still trying get a feel for it.

By the way, does any of you know make Office 2007 work like a previous edition. I'm thinking like 2002 edition. I'm not a fan of this strange "ribbons" system. I would rather have access to the traditional 'File, Edit, View... etc' system.



I get a black screen most of the time, and the computer becomes completely unresponsive. I had to shut down the computer to get it working. I got lucky one time and it worked, and I tried to make some adjustments, but it hasn't worked since. I did make it windowed though, so I have been able to minimise some damage.

It does play X3: Reunion (though it does have the noisy fan problem I mentioned).

Crysis however works fine on this computer (XP), although its old enough to be restricted to only the lowest graphics settings. It doesn't prevent me from enjoying it though.

Do they kick students out of class for having laptops that are too loud these days?

Anyway, I'd recommend a cooling platform. It will keep your thighs from being baked.

There are whole threads on some forums i stumbled upon about that issue. Search with google there are I think possibilities to change the ribbon design.

I don't mind the ribbons. In fact when you get used to them you can find stuff much more quickly.