What specifications do I need in the laptop I am going to buy for lfs to work properly without lag. Do I need a video card cuz this one dosnt have one but i think it would work..could you guys tell me what you think.

Here are the spec's for the one I might get.

• PROCESSOR: Mobile AMD Sempron™ 3400+ 2.0GHz
  
• MEMORY: 512MB DDR2 SDRAM upgradeable to 2GB
  
• HARD DRIVE: 60GB 5400RPM
  
• DISPLAY: 14.1" WXGA (1280 x 800)
  
• OPTICAL DRIVE: DVD-Super Multi double-layer drive
  
• PORTS: Interface ports: DC-in, RJ-11 modem, RJ-45 LAN, VGA, headphones/speakers/line-out with SPDIF support, microphone/line-in, line-in, 5-in-1 card reader (SD, MMC, MS, MS PRO, xD), S-video TV-out , three USB 2.0
  
• SOFTWARE: Acer Acer® Arcade, Acer® Empowering Technology (eLock, ePerformance, eRecovery (uses 6GB of hard drive space), eSettings, ePower, ePresentation, eDataSecurity), Acer® GridVista, Acer® Launch Manager, Adobe® Acrobat® Reader, CyberLink® PowerDVD™, CyberLink®, PowerProducer™, Norton AntiVirus®*, NTI CD-Maker™
  
• CONNECTIONS: 802.11 b/g WLAN, 10/100
  
• MODEM: V.92
  
• OPERATING SYSTEM: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Edition
  
• DIMENSIONS: Height: 16.5cm
  
• Width: 32.5cm
  
• Length: 39cm
  
• Weight: 3.48kg

Surely it has a graphics card? But an integrated one probably?
Anyway, the specs are enough to play LFS properly. Just get an at least medium end graphics card and it'll be fine.

ok and also I will be running this off a wireless rouder so do i need like a card to pick that up or something?

Also how much does a grapics card cost?

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What specifications do I need in the laptop I am going to buy for lfs to work properly without lag. Do I need a video card cuz this one dosnt have one but i think it would work..could you guys tell me what you think.

Here are the spec's for the one I might get.

• PROCESSOR: Mobile AMD Sempron™ 3400+ 2.0GHz
  
• MEMORY: 512MB DDR2 SDRAM upgradeable to 2GB
  
• HARD DRIVE: 60GB 5400RPM
  
• DISPLAY: 14.1" WXGA (1280 x 800)
  
• OPTICAL DRIVE: DVD-Super Multi double-layer drive
  
• PORTS: Interface ports: DC-in, RJ-11 modem, RJ-45 LAN, VGA, headphones/speakers/line-out with SPDIF support, microphone/line-in, line-in, 5-in-1 card reader (SD, MMC, MS, MS PRO, xD), S-video TV-out , three USB 2.0
  
• SOFTWARE: Acer Acer® Arcade, Acer® Empowering Technology (eLock, ePerformance, eRecovery (uses 6GB of hard drive space), eSettings, ePower, ePresentation, eDataSecurity), Acer® GridVista, Acer® Launch Manager, Adobe® Acrobat® Reader, CyberLink® PowerDVD™, CyberLink®, PowerProducer™, Norton AntiVirus®*, NTI CD-Maker™
  
• CONNECTIONS: 802.11 b/g WLAN, 10/100
  
• MODEM: V.92
  
• OPERATING SYSTEM: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Edition
  
• DIMENSIONS: Height: 16.5cm
  
• Width: 32.5cm
  
• Length: 39cm
  
• Weight: 3.48kg

It is wireless enabled by the look of it so you don't need to buy a wireless card.

Maybe you should wait and see if it runs LFS ok before you go out and buy a new graphics card for it. Plus they could cost anything, depends on what how much £ you have or what is availbale for that laptop.

well could someone link me to a site to look at a graphics card?

Need to know what laptop it is, make and model, and if it even has an upgradable graphics card.

It's not like there is a 1 graphics card fits all website out there.

http://www.thesourcecc.com/est ... log=Online&tab=1#more

Thats is what i am looking at.

hmm, doesn't say much more.

If I had to guess I'd say its not got an upgradable graphics card, it makes a point of telling you the memory is upgradable so if the graphics card was I think they'd mention it as well.

But you'd have to search the internet for more info about it to be 100% sure.

EDIT: I think you might do better asking for advice on what laptop to buy, if you post what you want to use the laptop for, and your budget in the hardware part of the forum you might better some better options.

I am afraid that you will need some "intelligent" GFX card to ran LFS properly. If there is no Hardware Vertex Shader support(which is done by GFX), LFS is at least very slow, or even worse, it can produce graphics flaws.
Upgrading a notebook by GFX card is a tricky thing, because there is no AGP or PCI-E slot in which you could simply plug it. AFAIK it is placed on mother board PCB(yes, it uses AGP/PCI-E interface, but that is not important), usually with no chance to replace it.
There is no info about chipset used in that notebook, but if it is one of those mobile ones, it most likely has a poor GFX.
If I were you, I would get a Intel-based notebook, because onboard Intel Extreme graphics that equips i9xx chipset series above is DirectXb 9.0 compilant and can do Hardware Vertex Shading(you can even run 3DMark05 on it). They are not top-gear ones, but what I've heard they are enough for decent LFSing - of course when you have powerful CPU.