I currently play and beta test X4 with the laptop specification in my signature, its mostly good, flying around sectors I'm at the 60 FPS Cap I have set constantly, if I am on a station with the map open I can expect a range between 24-35 FPS, and if I am dog fighting in a battle I can expect about the same.Moore's Law's Impending End
Experts agree that computers should reach the physical limits of Moore's Law at some point in the 2020s.
The high temperatures of transistors eventually would make it impossible to create smaller circuits. This is because cooling down the transistors takes more energy than the amount of energy that already passes through the transistors.
In a 2005 interview, Moore himself admitted that "...the fact that materials are made of atoms is the fundamental limitation and it's not that far away...We're pushing up against some fairly fundamental limits so one of these days we're going to have to stop making things smaller."
Which is ok, and I dream of one day buying a laptop that can handle everything this game has to give at a constant 60 FPS.
One day though that dream in a future version of the X series will not be possible, due to Moore's law and technology unable to advance in speed / capability anymore.
I hate desktops, they are such an inconvenient lump which has to be positioned in the most practicable place in the household, and they take so much electricity these days with the ridiculous energy pricing they are a serious drain.
Knowing that one day whatever minimum / recommended specification range Egosoft gives will be for desktops with the latest technology, laptops will at that stage be left behind, because ten years hence we will not be able to get a laptop that is so much better it catches up to what a desktop could do.
I request Minimum / Recommended Specifications are based on Laptops with those specs. Desktops will benefit because they will always be guaranteed to play the game superbly. And laptops players will also be able to play the game with the specifications being based on the lowest common denominator.