Fujitsu AMILO Pi3560

[Lily]

CC, I just have a quick question; can you play TS2 on this laptop?
ts.fujitsu.com/home/products/notebooks/amilo_pi_3560.html

The laptop graphic cards confuse me a lot!

I've got all of the expansion and stuff packs. I also play the Harry Potter games, SimCity 4 and I haven't decided on TS3 just yet.

Thanks a lot!

[CharlieChomper]

You should not have any problems in playing TS2 on that system.

[Lily]

Thanks CC! So I've got another question about graphics cards, which one is better; nVidia GeForce GT 240M or nVidia GeForce GT 330M?

[CharlieChomper]

The 330 is a newer generation/series card compared to the 240.

In terms of performance, the 330 is a bit "faster" than the 240--but it's not by a significantly large amount (at least, from the benchmark results I've seen).

[Lily]

Thanks for the info, CC!

By the way, do you know how it works when you reformat a Windows 7 computer?
My mum bought a Fujitsu laptop recently that came with a cd for Windows 7 and then I burned a dvd with the utilities and drivers. Is there something I should think about before I reformat the harddrive? Windows 7 is new to me and I'm dazzled but confused!

[CharlieChomper]

If there's not any data that's on there that you may want to keep, there really is not much more that I can think of that you might need--however, as this is a laptop, some of what I'll call the "critical" drivers (ethernet/network, video, motherboard/mainboard, sound, optical/DVD drives, etc.) need to come from Fujitsu's website for laptop drivers, as it's a Fujitsu laptop.

Do not download them through whoever made the chipset--there are some changes and "tweaking" that goes into the use of components in laptops.

However, if you've a good security program (and so long as you can get the network/ethernet driver installed in some capacity to get access to the internet through it), you can also grab the drivers off their site directly if you choose to do it that way.