dragon2611 Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 My friend wants me to help him find a laptop for around ?500. He wants it to burn Dvds, wireless internet and to run WOW. Now im not sure which laptop in this price range will run Wow, I have a macbook so i know the intel Gma950 isn't that good for wow but most laptops in this pricerange have intel graphics. If anyone knows the best deal in the price range please post. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489808--/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Fox Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 yeah this is that guy, doesnt need to have wireless already but the card slot for it (i can pick a card up cheap) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489808--/#findComment-587819619 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon2611 Posted August 25, 2006 Author Share Posted August 25, 2006 yeah this is that guy, doesnt need to have wireless already but the card slot for it (i can pick a card up cheap) its pretty much standard on laptops thesedays even the cheap ones. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489808--/#findComment-587819650 Share on other sites More sharing options...
azz0r_wugg Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 What are WOW's specs? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489808--/#findComment-587819665 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon2611 Posted August 25, 2006 Author Share Posted August 25, 2006 What are WOW's specs? wow will run on most laptops out today, its just with the ones with intel chips in the framerate is rather poor, the gma 950 in my macbook will run it but something by ati/nvidia would probably run it better than the intel chip I'm not expecting to find a topend chip in a laptop for this price but even the basic ati/nvidia chip will probably out perform the intel graphics. (i get 6fps in places on my macbook :laugh:, although some of that is becuase of running osx/opengl i get a better framerate in xp but even then its sometimes only 9 fps) its better to have 1gb ram for wow but it doesn't matter if its less seeing as on most laptops RAM is user upgradeable. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489808--/#findComment-587820190 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon2611 Posted August 25, 2006 Author Share Posted August 25, 2006 http://www.pcworld.co.uk:80/martprd/produc...ENT/7105/873552 As much as i hate pc world, that doesn't seem that bad a spec for the money although hows the advent brand for reliablity? # AMD Sempron 3000+ Processor # 1600 MT/s HyperTransport # 128 KB Cache # 1024 MB RAM # 60 GB Hard Drive # DVD ReWriter MultiDrive # 15.4" Widescreen Display # Microsoft Windows XP Media Center # 128 MB ATI X200 Shared Graphics # 1 Year Free Warranty would this play world of warcraft? thats the only game he wants to play on it... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489808--/#findComment-587820417 Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallithrax Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Have a look here, don't know if there is anything good enough, but they are very reliable. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489808--/#findComment-587820434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Fox Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 best one there for under ?500 is Packard Bell Easynote A7 810D Celerino 1.6Ghz 1024MB DDR RAM 60GB Hard Drive 12 Inch Wide Screen Diamond View Internal DVDR+W 10/100 LAN Wireless LAN 56K Modem Card Reader Firewire Touchpad Mouse 3 x USB Microsoft XP Home 12 Months Return to Base Warranty with Packard Bell Comes with FREE AVG Anti Virus and Open Office Installed Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489808--/#findComment-587821742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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