DosPara's Prime Note Altair TB: a 14-inch laptop for low-end gaming

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Tony Rayo @ Oct 24th 2006 12:07PM

The PC gaming community in Japan is much different than it is in America/Europe. This kind of rig makes sense for Japan although it makes NO sense whatsoever to have a 5400RPM drive in a computer these days, even for a low-end design - 7200 costs just a tiny bit more and make a world of difference. Anyway back to Japan, many games released for the country (even news ones) have a recommended CPU of 700mhz at most. You have to remember the kind of games popular in Japan are text and click or puzzle games and such. Of course this doesn't apply for everyone. Also if someone was to buy a 1500$+ computer, it's much more likely they would buy a Mac than it would be here or in the US. Most of commercial work in done on these machines, although Macs have a good hold in that dept over here as well. You have to remember arcades are still huge in Japan and most people want to bring that experience home, so systems like the PS2 are more desirable than a PC a lot of the time.

- Tony R.

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