Aquarium on mobile VIA ProSavage KN133?

CDV · 12-05-2001, 08:33 PM

Hello there.
I am new to both the Aquarium and this forum, and was wondering if (and how well) the laptop I am planning to buy will be able to use this fabulous program.
My future laptop is a Compaq Presario 701 --- one with a Duron 950Mhz, 256Mbs PC133 SDRAM, 14 TFT and, more importantly a "VIA ProSavage KN133" AGP video card using the ever-so unpopular Shared Memory Architecture setup.
I know that Aquarium is supposed to run on mobile SavageMX machines, but in this case, it is the "Shared Memory" part that has me woried (does mobile SavageMX share its memory too?)

thanks in advance for your input!

PS: Other info such as game performance of the afformentioned system would also be welcome.. My (kind of old) main system has been a PentiumII-450 with a RivaTNT1 card (the one with the uncrippled memory bandwith --- not Vanta or M64). Do you think the new laptop will outperform it, Aquarium and games-wise?

feldon34 · 12-06-2001, 01:48 PM

Can you give us a pricerange on how much you can afford to spend on a laptop.

I get closer to heaven every time I save someone from the Compaq nightmare.

Socrates · 12-06-2001, 11:20 PM

Feldon is right.

Compaq sucks. There is no way around it.

Their products are poorly designed, poorly tested, and even more poorly supported.

12-05-2001, 08:33 PM	#1
CDV Registered Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 2	Aquarium on mobile VIA ProSavage KN133? Hello there. I am new to both the Aquarium and this forum, and was wondering if (and how well) the laptop I am planning to buy will be able to use this fabulous program. My future laptop is a Compaq Presario 701 --- one with a Duron 950Mhz, 256Mbs PC133 SDRAM, 14 TFT and, more importantly a "VIA ProSavage KN133" AGP video card using the ever-so unpopular Shared Memory Architecture setup. I know that Aquarium is supposed to run on mobile SavageMX machines, but in this case, it is the "Shared Memory" part that has me woried (does mobile SavageMX share its memory too?) thanks in advance for your input! PS: Other info such as game performance of the afformentioned system would also be welcome.. My (kind of old) main system has been a PentiumII-450 with a RivaTNT1 card (the one with the uncrippled memory bandwith --- not Vanta or M64). Do you think the new laptop will outperform it, Aquarium and games-wise?

12-06-2001, 01:48 PM	#2
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,938	Can you give us a pricerange on how much you can afford to spend on a laptop. I get closer to heaven every time I save someone from the Compaq nightmare. "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

12-06-2001, 11:20 PM	#3
Socrates Sage Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: West Hills, CA Posts: 1,529	Feldon is right. Compaq sucks. There is no way around it. Their products are poorly designed, poorly tested, and even more poorly supported. Bat rays? We don't need no stinking bat rays!