JarredWalton - Friday, Septemlink It would save time, but it wouldn't provide a ready comparison to other mobile GPUs, which is one thing I wanted to do.Otherwise, the vast majority of people will be better off with a midrange desktop for gaming and a true midrange solution. (Same for the HD 4670 and even HD 3850.) If you want to play modern games on a notebook, get the Gateway P-7811 or some other more powerful (and larger) notebook. Midrange mobile graphics *aren't* great, and in fact even the fastest mobile GPUs are slower than desktop "midrange" graphics: the 9600 GT costs under $100 and outperforms the 9800M GTS, and the ~$110 8800 GT 512MB is faster than any mobile GPU. That's not to say you can't play any games on these midrange GPUs, but I would hate to give people the mistaken impression that midrange mobile GPUs run most games "fine" when that's simply not true. Graphics aren't everything, true, but they do make a difference.
There are plenty of other games that start looking quite poor before you break 30 FPS. :-) Yeah, that's sort of extreme, but so is a huge battery sitting under a small laptop.Īs for midrange graphics and gaming, let me reiterate: running at 1280x800 I couldn't break 20 FPS in Mass Effect or Crysis even at minimum detail, and GRID at medium-low detail was playable but looked like a four year old graphics engine. If you buy any of these laptops and six to eight extra batteries, you could get 24 hours as well.
Compal hl90 upgrade#
You can upgrade the memory, hard drive, WiFi card, and CPU with a minimal amount of fuss. In fact, the vast majority of the assembly process only requires access to the bottom compartments. The process is almost identical to taking apart the Gateway P-7811 FX, only with a slightly smaller chassis. Presumably, a few people out there might end up with a barebone notebook that they need to assemble themselves, so hopefully the above images will help. The new model should be equal to or better than the IFL90 in every instance, so take what we say about the IFL90 and factor in some improvements and you have the JHL90 (more or less).Ĭonsidering this is a Compal chassis, we thought it might be appropriate to completely dissect the notebook so you can see how everything is put together. Other than minor differences in performance, features, battery life, and some external modifications, the two notebooks should be very similar.
We'll stick with the Compal naming scheme for the text, but we generated our charts with FL-92 so just know that the two names are equivalent.) It was just replaced by the updated Compal HL90 (JHL90), which is a Centrino 2 platform.
(Note that Compal lists the model as IFL90 while AVADirect referred to it as the FL-92. Unfortunately, the timing of this article is a bit off, as the Compal IFL90 is no longer available at AVADirect. Some people might still prefer to do the assembly on their own, but with laptops that can be more time-consuming than putting together a desktop, and AVADirect offers an extensive selection of components and will assemble and test the notebook for you with only a small markup. In some cases, you can also customize the LCD, GPU, and/or battery as well. AVADirect sells various "whitebook" laptop offerings from Clevo, Compal, MSI, and ASUS - essentially barebone notebooks where they add the CPU, memory, hard drive, and optical drive. We've looked at an AVADirect gaming laptop earlier this year and were fairly impressed with the customization options available.
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