mannertime

I'm glad to hear Celeron isn't the crappy discount processor that it used to be, so it's back to the great debate... The Intel 4500 does appear to run Left 4 Dead (using a dual core processor) so I imagine that Team Fortress 2 will work. Also, I have to say I trust HP over emachines for overall quality. Man, I was hoping I could stay inside a heated building while I waited for black friday...

Good observation, I didn't notice that before. I had a chance to play with an Acer laptop with the exact same specs and I think that it'll do fine by me. As the Best Buy $200 HP still uses an Intel integrated I think I'm still going to jump on the emachines. I'm sure that I'll be able to get TF2 to run on it smoothly, although I'm not expecting amazing graphics from the thing. Low settings are fine by me so long as the thing runs!

I'm thinking of going with the 200 dollar E-Machine laptop because it has a decent integrated card on it. According to Notebookcheck's website, the HD 3200 is able to run Half Life 2 on high settings ~ 25 FPS. I think that all the thing needs to be a pretty serviceable laptop is an extra 2 gigs of RAM, some time spent to get rid of the bloatware, and some TLC. Anyone agree with me on this or am I just blowing smoke? I really just want a system to run Team Fortress 2 after my last two systems fell apart...