M-Tech Model 8100 - Staff Gaming Review

            I was able to take home our 8100 from work.  I'll be honest when I say that I did not think this would be a laptop good for gaming.  When I got home I was happy that within 3 minutes I was connected to the internet and surfing around with no problems.  I later had a friend bring me Return to castle Wolfenstein, one of the most tasking games on the market other than Medal of Honor.  I new that if my Voodoo 3 that used to be on my desktop handled it this card would also, being a mobile Radeon with 16MB of DDR RAM.  What I didn't know was that it ran it way better than my Voodoo 3 ever did, in fact I just replaced my Voodoo with a Geforce 3 and I would have to say that it will be hard to figure out which one will go to the LAN party I usually go to.  I saw no problems what so ever running the game at 640 x 480.  That maybe the lowest resolution, but it runs it smooth. 

            I did not run any real time strategy games 'cause let's face they run on almost anything.  I did get a chance to run Vampire the Masquerade.  This is an RPG like Diablo, only it is more graphically intensive.  The game came out in 1999, but still is tasking enough that my Voodoo 3 in my tower had problems.  I played it for about 20 minutes and was satisfied.  The only problem was that everything seemed dark, I think the only reason it was like this was that everything in the game is dark.  I also threw on Black and White, which also ran fine.  I'm not gonna go into to much detail on this game because I didn't have it on the laptop very long.

            Overall, I love this laptop.  You may think it's funny but I loved it so much I bought the model I got to take home.  I even use it more than my tower for surfing the internet, chatting with friends, and watching DVDs.

Jon    

jon@mtechlaptops.com

M-Tech Technical Representative