WOW laptop

xxtomox

xxtomox

xxtomox

Associate
Joined
7 Jul 2008
Posts
311
Hi iamgoing to spend £500 on a laptop. i need it for work and travelling purposes. i want to play wowa bit in my spare time would a laptop play it or not
 
WoW is pretty easy on hardware requirements, I'd say for FPS performance in cities if you can try and stay away from a intel integrated graphics solution.

Look for a laptop that has ATI or Nvidia graphics solutions.
 
I've played WoW with a touchpad. It's obviously not as ideal as a mouse but it's certainly doable :) At the time it was pretty much my only option so I learnt to adapt fast :p
 
dunno bout wow but my mate plays lotro on touchpad, only diff is that hes sometimes bit slower to react
tho i dont understand how
 
My £450 Tosh plays WoW fine, integrated Intel too. I've gamed using the touchpad, wouldnt wanna PvP with it though xD
 
My 4 year old Dell played WoW fine on highest setting, but became clunky around hub areas i.e. ironforge/stormwind/areas of huge battles etc.

That spec is 2gb 556ram, 1.7ghz processor, ATi radeon x300 :)
 
Vicious said:
touchpad is probably fine for pve use leveling etc, just keybind important crap. Wouldnt try pvp tho lol
Click to expand...

Heh yeah, I don't think that'd be fun :D I was on a pve server last so wasn't an issue for me.
Forgot to say in my last post, I bought a dell vostro for similar purposes as you, mostly work but I wanted to be able to play some games. Mine was about £450 in February, 1.6ghz core2duo (although I got sent the 2ghz core2duo by mistake despite being invoiced and billed for the 1.6ghz :D), 2 gig ram and geforce8400gs, and I've even got it running UT3 at low res :p But for the most part it only ever needs to run FM2008 and WoW which it does fine excluding sluggish moments in high populated areas.
 
ffallic said:
Is wow playable with a touchpad?
Click to expand...

I can't do it because I used to a mouse but my girlfriend seemed to cope fine as she had never played WoW on anything else. It's like PC gamers playing a FPS with a gamepad, it feels wrong after using a keyboard and mouse but to console gamers it's the only way they have ever played so it's natural.

Also Wow should run fine on most hardware, it runs on a MacBook which only has an Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics.
 
a few tips, try to get something that isnt intagrated graphics,try to get 2gb of ram tho it mite be hard to find on a £500 budget, just go for as much memory as u can.

memory makes the biggest different on low spec machines.

playing with a touchpad is strange at first but u get used to it quickly, ive tanked places like UBRS(old skool :) ) on my laptop with touchpad, u just adapt to it and its fine.
 
Don't get a laptop with an Nvidia 8400/8600 chip. There were articles/announcements recently that alluded to the fact they are all bad, and its likely just a matter of time before they go bye bye.

Nobody is giving clear info on what the problem is, and exactly how extensive it is, but better to err on the side of caution. I am still waiting for Dell support to answer posts about it on their forums.

On another note, if one were to start WoW, would you need to start with the vanilla WoW, or could you go straight to Burning Crusade?
 
Last edited:
ffallic said:
On another note, if one were to start WoW, would you need to start with the vanilla WoW, or could you go straight to Burning Crusade?
Click to expand...

you couldnt just buy Burning Crusade, you'd need original wow discs to install and then you can install BC. But you wouldnt start at level 60 and just get the extra area and 10 levels from BC :p
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom