Gaming on the Aspire One 751

I was Wondering I am thinking of getting 751 for £250 from Play.com but The N270 netbooks are actually quite capable of playing alot of games, but What About the 751 can It Play games like San Andreas, Vice City?

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The Z series of Atoms is low powered - it's fine for office stuff and web but I think not punchy enough for most graphically heavy games. Having said that I have a Nintendo64 emulator running on it not too badly! Once Acer and Intel get the GMA500 accelerator support sorted properly (it's ok now in W7 but not brilliant) then it will be better.

 

Thanks for the reply

 

The Z520 + GMA 500 netbooks are much slower at 3d graphics than the N270 + GMA 950 ones.

So you should expect (much) worse performance than say an A110.

The CULV + 4500MHD netbooks are about 20-30% faster than N270/GMA 950.

Netbooks with an Atom N270/N280 + Nvidia ION are the fastest at 3d graphics, but I can't be sure how much exactly. It looks to be 40-80% faster than CULV/4500MHD according to notebookcheck.

A CULV + ION netbook would be off the hook in terms of 3d graphics... It should be around 2x as fast as Atom/ION. *drool*

Edit: To answer your question, I don't think you'd be able to play Vice City or San Andreas on a netbook with Atom Z + GMA 500 (like 751h). All the others should be able to play it more or less sorta acceptable.