AfterShafter
Deity
But if I wasnt a wolf and had the revenues of France like you do, I could afford an extra $500 for a laptop too Maybe if the original poster changed his avatar to Mansa Musa, the money for a laptop would roll in...
Sorry, after Versailles, I'm broke
Meh, Howard kind of annoyed me. Laptops can work for gaming, particularly relatively non-intensive ones like Civ IV. All considered, if you have a steady income (and I do realize a lot of gamers don't, but a lot do as well) putting down an extra few hundred for a Civ worth laptop isn't the end of the world - certainly nothing that warranted Howard's snide response. In the line of major expenditures, it's actually quite small... My brother just bought a Porsche on Fireman wages - makes me feel better about owning a half decent laptop!