Laptop for WoW only

DotFifty89

DotFifty89

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My friend is looking for the cheapest laptop he can get to just play world of warcraft on. So far i have seen this:

Acer aspire one 725

Amd dual core c-70. 1Ghz
320gb hdd
4gb ram
Amd radeon hd 6290


It is a very low spec, but its only costing £270 brand new online, not interested in anything used or on ebay.

Is this laptop ok for him with WoW with the latest expansion
 
1024x768 res on medium/low graphics = 23fps according to a benchmarking website. Considering that this is a benchmark for the original game I would not hold out much hope for the newer expansions running well.

For example my wifes laptop plays the original game fine on low/med, but as soon at you get to the burning crusade/litch king content it bogs down to nearly unplayable.

So, I would say no.
 
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No offense, but around £300 would only get a standard laptop for general usage. For laptop with semi-decent graphic capable of light gaming, it would still be £500 upward...

With that kinda of budget, unless mobility is a must...he would be better off building a cheap AMD Trinity PC and hook it up to a TV or something.
 
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my laptop plays wow spot on, its the one in sig, i dont know how much these go for now, but mine new a few years ago cost over 600 lol.. you dont need to spend that much, but unless you buy used id say add an extra 100 on top atleast.

edit: i have all expansions bar the panda one unless there was one before panda but after cataclysm.
 
- Screen: 15.6" LED TFT HD Screen
- Processor: AMD Dual Core E-300 1.30GHz
- Memory: 4GB DDR3
- Storage: 500GB HDD
- Optical: DVD-RW
- Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 6310

What about this, on medium/low settings?
 
Back when Cata was first released, my laptop ran the game pretty well on low graphical settings.

Resolution was 1280x800, it has the following:

'Genuine Intel(R)' CPU T1600 @ 1.66GHz
2.00 GB Memory (RAM)
32-bit Vista
128MB Intel on board Family Chipset

Cost me around £350/400 about 5 years ago, so for that kind of price you'd most likely get a significantly better one than mine these days that'll run it very well. Do yourself a favor and stay away from AMD laptops, Intel are far, far superior when it comes to portable computers, my T1600 would blow most AMD CPU's away in and above its price range.
 
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