Dev on a laptop?

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I use a PC World Advent laptop as my main system for Blitz... it's a AMD 1.6ghz 512mb RAM but has a shared memory ATI 128mb graphics card... but it runs Quake 3 like a dream & so far it's run everything I've done in Blitz the same!... it does struggle a bit with lightmappers though... it takes about 45 mins to render a lightmapped scene & create the lightmaps! (using Gile(s) that is)... but thats my fault I guess... I could install it on my desktop which is a 2.66ghz P4 with 512 MB ram & Nvidia XFX 5200 128MB card (old now... but sturdy!)... but I can watch TV while I wait for my laptop to do it's stuff... I have to sit in the dining room to use my other faster machine :-S lolol

TreeMagik G3 is kinda slow on my laptop too... especially in windowed mode... in fact its practically unusable in windowed mode... but I can cope with it's speed in fullscreen!

Anyways... my desktop is on the same desk as my wifes... and DAMN!... I can't concerntrate when she telling me to "smile" at the web-cam while she's chatting to her world-wide mates?? lol... I'd rather wait a few more minutes for my laptop to do it... in SILENCE!!!!!! lololol

Ya see!... there's method in MY madness! :P lolol