P1999 on Netbooks

[Trollhide]

So I've been checking out the HP Stream 11 and it looks like a decent little throwaway laptop for 150-200 bucks. Could be convenient for couch-based Everquesting.

Anyone have firsthand experience playing P99 on tiny laptops with shitty processors like N2840, N3050, Atoms? Basically anything cheaper than a core i3?

I'm not expecting greatness, just wanna know if this old-ass game and maybe like some 2-dollar Steam specials are playable.

edit for bonus question: What about installing Ubuntu, wine, and p99 on Chromebooks? Toshiba Chromebook 2 looks p legit


for reference, I had a ~$300 laptop from 2011 with an AMD E-350 APU, and it was satisfactory enough performance for me to dual-box (on live)

[discordkitty]

As someone who works for HP, don't buy HP.

[Izmael]

Originally Posted by discordkitty [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As someone who works for HP, don't buy HP.

Can you please elaborate?

Would you say that for the HP servers as well?

[Kevris]

Originally Posted by Izmael [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Can you please elaborate?

Would you say that for the HP servers as well?

I don't work for HP, but I am I do work in the industry in a capacity that requires I design, purchase and implement technology to suit the needs of my business.

If I'm buying a box that's going to run a service of any kind, I buy HP. (Physical DC, dumbass application from idiot vendor that doesn't support virtualization, etc)

If I'm buying something that's going to be a storage target for backups (I'm going to stick my backups on this box prior to replicating them off-site, I'm going to use this box as a Microsoft DPM target, etc) I'll get a SuperMicro solution.

If I'm buying a cluster, it's Cisco UCS all the way.

If I'm buying a SAN, it's Nimble every time.

I have a serious grudge with IBM's series after the X series debacles of the mid/late 2000's ....I had clients losing entire raid arrays because of shitty controllers.

That's not to say I haven't had some issues with HP boxes, but the issues with HP's boxes never caused major "OH MY FUCKING GOD ALL THE DATA IS GONE FROM THE DRIVES," it's more like "Oh, the secondary fans are broken, send me new fans HP."

[Baler]

Originally Posted by discordkitty [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

don't buy HP.

I've gone through several different hp products and called support numerous times. Without going into long details I recommend avoiding HP products. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Originally Posted by Trollhide [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

why do people ever purchase Apple products?

The only apple product I've ever bought was an ipod. About the only good thing they made imho.

[Thulack]

If you want a tiny Laptop look at this https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-11e-11.../dp/B017BX510W

Display isnt all that great but if your just playing EQ it will be fine. Everything else about it is great including the rugged build. I got it for 200 over black friday so it could drop down to that again this fall.

[Trollhide]

Originally Posted by Thulack [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you want a tiny Laptop look at this https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-11e-11.../dp/B017BX510W

Display isnt all that great but if your just playing EQ it will be fine. Everything else about it is great including the rugged build. I got it for 200 over black friday so it could drop down to that again this fall.

Looks like a couple 3rd party sellers on Amazon have the same model with a 500gb HDD for $200. Far as I can tell it should be no problem to take that out and swap in either the 128gb or 256gb 2.5" SSD I have sittin around, yeah?

[Thulack]

Originally Posted by Trollhide [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Looks like a couple 3rd party sellers on Amazon have the same model with a 500gb HDD for $200. Far as I can tell it should be no problem to take that out and swap in either the 128gb or 256gb 2.5" SSD I have sittin around, yeah?

Yep. Thats what i did. Simple process.

[Trollhide]

Originally Posted by Thulack [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yep. Thats what i did. Simple process.

Pretty close to pulling the trigger on this. Yours doesn't heat up too bad does it? I've been reading about some battery overheating with some Thinkpad models but as far as I can tell from Lenovo's site the 2015 model is not affected.

[Thulack]

Originally Posted by Trollhide [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Pretty close to pulling the trigger on this. Yours doesn't heat up too bad does it? I've been reading about some battery overheating with some Thinkpad models but as far as I can tell from Lenovo's site the 2015 model is not affected.

Not that i have noticed. For the last 3 months its sat next to my sons TV and he uses it to watch youtube and play games as i said earlier. There havent been any issues. It gets warm to the touch but there havent been any overheating that i have seen when using open hardware monitor on it.