Satellite Pro L300D-20R and gaming

I am interested in buying this laptop to replace our desktop. Does anyone know how good the ATI Radeon 3100 Graphics are?
Our kids like playing Zoo Tycoon 2 and Sims would it be capable of playing these games?
We don't play FPS games.

Hi
I think you shouldnt have any problems playing these games but if you are hardcore gamer and want to play high performance games in the future then I would recommend buying a desktop PC. The point is that you can easily replace the graphic card in the desktop PC and can upgrade the CPU if necessary.
But its not possible to replace the graphic card in the notebook.
Anyway, playing older games you should not have any big performance problems...

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    Hi
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    Hello,
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    Hi
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  • Satellite Pro M70 overheats and powers off

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