<p>lolol. Would an ordinary $600 laptop be able to handle counter-strike smoothly? That’s probably the only game I’m going to play.</p>
<p>I just need a laptop that could handle that. I was thinking about getting a Dell XPS, but I don’t think I need something that crazy for CS.</p>
<p>1.6 or source?</p>
<p>if source, most likely no.</p>
<p>if 1.6, yes for most maps. maybe not zombie servers, and you’d probably get a good amount of lag with smoke grenades and lots of action. so 75% yes?</p>
<p>Anything with 8400 or 3450 and above is good for source. </p>
<p>Make sure you have 3GB ram though</p>
<p>Yes I believe you should be able to play Counter Strike quite nicely as long as you get a good deal for 600 dollars. I would just buy a laptop with a Core 2 Duo and a dedicated video card, they are available as long as you search. I’m pretty sure my current laptop could play counter-strike source, I have not tried but Team Fortress 2 plays perfectly fine and it has higher system requirements. My computer is kinda old now too, it’s a Core Duo with a crappy 64MB ATI 1300x, I do have 3 gigs of ram though but computer’s these days are coming with more and more amounts of ram I’d expect to get at least 2 gigs standard.</p>
<p>All in all just go shopping for the best computer you can find for 600 dollars and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Source is not really a resource heavy game. If you have 1 GB of RAM and a integrated video card you should be able to run it smoothly.</p>
<p>^ Not true</p>
<p>The source engine is processor heavy, so look for the best processor you can get.</p>
<p>I can attest for 1.6 - waiting for my final i7 build, which i have up now, I was able to run CS 1.6 on a 1.46Ghz Pentium dual-core/integrated graphics laptop with bots or even online at a manageable 30-45 fps, it was just the smoke grenades that seemed to slow it down.</p>