Hihi. New customer. Bought a few things.

Most of these games are friendly for low end laptops and that is a huge market.

You guys should REALLY advertise for that because I'm sure people would like some good software for their low end mobile rigs.

Just a thought.

I think it's common sense that they work on low end laptops.

Well, either or... common sense doesn't increase sales. And besides, common sense is slowly become few and far between these days in today's society.

Sometimes a really big sign saying: "These games will play on your netbook!" will get people coming.

But, it's really cool that there's a netbook playability thread. That should be at the top of the forums.

"These games probably play on your netbook!"

I say it still depends on the netbook and of course on the games.

It does and most of the games here won't play on a genuine netbook. Most of them require more than a 1ghz in processing power to get DOSBox running properly on top of Windows.

It still bugs me when people refer to a laptop running Windows as being a netbook. Just shows how much pull MS has in the market.

I thought something like 80%+ netbooks ran Atom CPUs, or the AMD equivalent (non-APU) that were all ~1GHz+.

And 'netbook' to most people is a sub-notebook with shitty parts for anything other than, you guessed it, browsing the web. And half the time not even the 'Web 2.0/3.0' thing :)

At least in IT, that's the view I've gotten of it.

I haven't actually seen any netbooks sold in the US in a few years. But, it's commodity hardware which is only really good for the internet.

They're meant to be minimal and only handle the internet and not a whole lot else. It always bugs me when people refer to UMPCs and Subnotebooks as Netbooks as they're different markets for different people and the latter tends to be a lot cheaper.

Common sense sounds especially odd then, since if there's much less of it it couldn't be common to begin with. Sometimes I really do feel like banging my head against the wall when witnessing the sheer stupidity of so many people I come across on a daily basis. I'd so very much would vote for a law that required people to have a license for producing offspring.

Back on topic, my crappy sub-$500 lappie can handle most of GOG's catalog with ease. I'd say about 95%. There's a handful of games that are too performance hungry (very few of those, and it's typically obvious which ones) and some that just don't play well with integrated graphics chips, no matter wether they're capable enough to actually play the game; I'm blaming shoddy coding there. I'm looking at you, Space Rangers 2. Grrrr.

I actually think this is a GREAT idea. There should be some kind of official stamp logo that says "PLAYS GREAT ON INTEGRATED VIDEO" or something similar, so people know.

Remember, the mass market is not tech-savvy. Even I, a 20 year long PC gamer, am sometimes surprised by what runs on my shitty laptop and what doesn't.

And that is of bugger all use to take anywhere other than a couple of meters from your desktop pc... Hmm...

except the main benefits of the laptop is mobility. Would you not loose this when you are tied in to a certain physical radius from a stationary PC (i.e. the length of the wire), not to mention thing like walls and doors, you would more or less need to be in the same room? Is there then any point?

Yes, being able to play games while laying on your bed.

And the mobility of most laptops is nada, they last what a few hours on battery power. That's not even enough to properly start playing a game.

I mean, do it need the PC to be in the bedroom? what if it stands in the office one floor down? You can always find a socket to plug power in, but you do not have a PC in every room.