How good will this laptop be for gaming?

[SIGbastard]

I just ordered a new laptop yesterday. I've never had one before but I start Dental School in July. I bought one for school but I tried to add what I thought would make it be good for gaming when I have time. I didn't go with a P4 because the centrino notebooks suit my school needs better. I just know nothing about laptops. It cost me about $3200 not including the mouse and headphones. I was told to get the best I could afford because it would really help with school. Here are the specs:

Inspiron 9300
Intel® Pentium® M 760 Processor (2GHz/533MHz FSB),

Memory 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz 2 Dimm
1GB2D

Video Card 256MB NVIDA® GeForce™ Go 6800

Hard Drive 60GB 7200rpm Hard Drive
60GB

Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional

Display 17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife™

Operating System Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional


Network Card Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
INTNIC

CD/DVD Drives 24X CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive
24COMBO

Intel®PRO/Wireless 2915 Internal Wireless802.11 a/b/g,54Mbps

9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery (80 WHr)

Wireless Personal Networking Card Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth Internal(2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate)

Logitech MX900 Bluetooth Optical Mouse

Sennheiser HD555 headphones

 

[15357]

better than my desktop, exept the cpu speed.

 

[SIGbastard]

Forgot to mention that price includes lots of extra software, and a four year in home service warrantee with four years of accidental damage insurance.

 

[$kelet0r]

I've an inspiron 9100 and hl2 runs like a knife on hot butter (ie excellently : ))
no slowdown at all, excellent graphics etc.

 

[DrDevin]

You should have a great laptop for gaming. I found a review of your laptop here:

http://www.pcauthority.com.au/review.aspx?CIaRID=2456

It gets 19,500 marks in 3DMark01 SE and 15,518 with four samples of anti-aliasing enabled.

Also a preview of the 6800go can be found here:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2268&p=1

It gets great scores in all of the tests so you should be happy.

 

[bryanf445]

yea that will be very good for gaming, and isnt the pentium m's run faster then what they say? wouldnt the 2.0 run like a 3.0ghz? i dunno i thought thats what it is