Yeah, that's basically the idea. I go to the Academy of Art University studying Game Design, and was offered this internship because of my knowledge of Unreal. Stanford decided to use it because of the good visuals and the relative ease of integrating their special "game type."

You're looking at the 17". The top 15" is $2200 at base, and with a student discount I got it for $1950*.

I have ubersampling off, and a few other things turned down to medium, so I was exaggerating a bit. My apologies. Either way, its still runs the game quite well to my surprise! Honest, I really thought I would have to play on medium.

Well, here's the thing. 2 years ago I sprang for an Alienware m17x. Worst decision of my life. It was basically the same price as my Macbook Pro, and broke in two years. Before that, I had a MBP. It lasted 5. It could play Unreal Tournament 3 at basically the highest specs (granted, not DX10).

AWESOME. You can reach me at nadler.ben@gmail.com. Just include "Hagia Sophia" somewhere in the subject.

Thanks, I'll try to send an email as well.

Thanks for your help! I had seen two out of three of those already...I've been working on this project for almost 4 or 5 months now, so I've about Google-fu'ed all the Hagia Sophia reference of decent quality one can find.

Also, the project is through Stanford University as an internship, and thus there is sort of an extra importance! Its being used for sound simulations and such, so there is an academia reason for helping out. You're helping Science! Hooray!

Er, it was actually $2000, and with a student discount even less.

Hey Stephen, I have a HUGE favor to ask.

Er....wasn't the 13" last year a 320M with only 256mb? I would have to say that the 1GB Radeon HD 6750M I have is certainly faster than that on all accounts. Honestly, I wish it was an nVidia card for my CUDA supported applications, but either way, by all means it isn't a bad graphics card. Not the best, but not…

Uh...what?

The current GPU is pretty good. I've been playing games like the Witcher 2 in Windows at the highest possible specs with no slowdown on the high end 15" MBP, so its hardly a pushover.

Yeah, that's my main reason. All my friends are on Xbox Live...But to be honest, I don't think I even have money for Battlefield 3. It looks great, but I've already got a preorder on Gears of War more than halfway paid off, an order for the Skyrim Special Edition, Batman, Uncharted 3...ugh!

That's good to hear. Chances are I'm going to get it on Xbox just out of preference at this point, but I appreciate you getting me that info.

Having played the alpha, which was limited to 12 players per team, I am completely fine with that limitation. Don't know where you got the 30 FPS claim, but I haven't seen it elsewhere and judging by these videos its smoother than that. I could care less about custom servers.

Except there is the whole thing that it is spyware. That clusterfuck.

As far as I'm aware, the retail copies require you to install Origin, so I'm not too interested.

I will gladly trade slightly worse graphics so that I don't have to deal with the clusterfuck that is Origin.

No problem with that! I would consider myself a casual viewer as well. DS9 is the only series I've finished, but I'm working my way through TNG and Voyager (thanks, Netflix!). Either way, I would suggest possibly giving DS9 another chance depending on how far you got. I honestly could not get into it until about 5…