I'm new to steam, help please!

[DesiPrinceX09]

Greetings escapists!

I am a PS3 gamer predominantly but with my recent purchase of portal 2 I'm looking to do a little pc gaming. As you know, Ps3 version of portal 2 is steam compatible and even comes with a code to download portal 2 on steam which is nice. I created a steam account using my PSN account and installed the steam application and explored a little on the steam store to see what's available and I liked what I saw (good sales). What I mainly want to do is play good games that I can't get on PS3 but before I do anything I want to ask experienced steam users about what is good and if my laptop can handle the games. By no means is my laptop a "gaming" laptop but it is a good computer.

For example, I am tempted to buy left for dead 1 and 2 (great price)and I'm wondering if it can even handle that.

I have a Sony Vaio VPCCW17FX with these specs:

Processor:
Type: Intel® Core? 2 Duo Processor T6600
Speed: 2.20GHz
Front Side Bus Speed: 800MHz
L2 Cache: 2MB
Technology: Intel® Dual Core® processor technology

Memory:
Installed: 4GB PC3-8500 (2GBx2)
Maximum: 8GB
Type/Speed: DDR3/1066

Hard Drive:
Capacity: 500GB
Speed: 5400rpm
Type: Serial ATA
Optical Drive
BD-R DL Read: 5x max
BD-R Read: 5x max
BD-RE DL Read: 5x max
BD-RE Read: 5x max
BD-ROM Read: 5x max
Blu-ray Disc? Support: Read Only (BD-ROM)
CD Support: Read / Write (CD/-R/-RW)
DVD Support: Read / Write (DVD±R/±RW/±R DL/-RAM)

Expansion Slots:
Multimedia Card Reader: One Memory Stick PRO?
media slot (Standard/Duo) with MagicGate®

functionality:
One ExpressCard® /34 media slot
One Secure Digital (SD memory card) media slot

Audio:
Sound System: Intel® High Definition Audio
Display
Screen Size: 14"
Resolution: 1366x768
Back Light Technology: LED

Graphics:
Processor: NVIDIA® GeForce® G210M GPU with Total
Available Graphics Memory of 2031MB (max.)
Video RAM: 256MB dedicated video RAM
Chipset: Mobile Intel® PM45 Express Chipset
Max. External Resolution via VGA: 2048x1536
Max. External Display Resolution via HDMI? : 1920x1080

 

[Bajinga]

You have good specs, you will be able to play a lot of games with that.
If you want to check a game's requirements; search it up and scroll down to see everything.

Also, here's L4D2's specification minimums:
"Minimum:

Supported OS: Windows® 7 32/64-bit / Vista 32/64 / XP
Processor: Pentium 4 3.0GHz
Memory: 1 GB for XP / 2GB for Vista
Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible video card with 128 MB, Shader model 2.0. ATI X800, NVidia 6600 or better
Hard Drive: At least 7.5 GB of free space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card"

 

[Valagetti]

I advice you to get more RAM dedicated for your graphics card, but I say that to all machines.

 

[chronicfc]

yeah, be fine, will run great, by the way, lucky time to get in, with the huge discounts and stuff

 

[drakythe]

You should snag the original Half-Life, as well, if you haven't played it. So much fun. (get the original, not "Source" version)