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Well I'm soon flying the nest, off to uni :D and was wondering apart from the obvious system requirements are there any laptops/programmes which won't run TAD as I'm getting a laptop and want to be able to play it
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As long as your running a microsoft OS and the hardware is up to the job, you should be ok.
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Ok that's good to hear but what do you mean "a Microsof OS" Do you mean like XP? (I've never been too technical :oops: )
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Yeah, XP or Vista. Don't know many people left running 95 or Millenium.
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Doesn't matter, AOE3 requires a minimum of Windows XP. My laptop with Vista runs AOE with no problems. It's not even a "gaming laptop".
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That's great to hear. Just means that I won't have to stop playing if I go to uni. What would be the best laptop to have for around £600?
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I use laptop and it's ok, despite I have low RAM memory.
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I'm probably gonna get blasted now saying this, but the HP Laptops at PC World have been going at a recent price, my cousin got one the other week as he's also going off to uni end of this year, I dunno the proper specs all i remember it was 17.5" had a decent NVidia 7600GT or something I think 2Ghz , not sure of Ram and cost him about £499 I think, I'll have a look
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e-buyer is pretty much the best place online to get computer stuff. They are doing some good laptops at the moment.
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I think this is the laptop he bought(must have been on offer at the time he bought it) and does not say which graphics card is in it.
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Just wanted 2 b sure, that on behalf of N30, we wish Highlander the best of luck and greatest possible success in his endeavour of leaving the nest".

On a personal note Highlander: neva 4get "...the higher u climb....the greater the fall...." With that in mind, I hope mommy and daddy gave u a decent pair of wings. They´ll b more then enough 4 u 2 do the most amazing acrobatic stunts this bird cage has eva seen, even with a laptop from Hewlard and Packard like DJDan says r good.

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[quote=""LaZy""]Just wanted 2 b sure, that on behalf of N30, we wish Highlander the best of luck and greatest possible success in his endeavour of leaving the nest".

On a personal note Highlander: neva 4get "...the higher u climb....the greater the fall...." With that in mind, I hope mommy and daddy gave u a decent pair of wings. They´ll b more then enough 4 u 2 do the most amazing acrobatic stunts this bird cage has eva seen, even with a laptop from Hewlard and Packard like DJDan says r good.

Best wishes[/quote]

Cheers mate for those really great words :D

I feel I should point out, I won't be leaving home till about September
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I bought a Dell refurbished desktop for about the equivalent of 150 pounds, came with dual core 2ghz amd proc, 1g ram, is more than enough to handle aoe3. Especially with such a good exchange rate you should check them out, they have refurbished laptops as you are looking for.
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