Laptop Question

[noobpwnage]

Hey guys I just purchased World Of Warcraft yesterday and was wondering if my laptop can handle it? It is a Dell Inspiron e1505 and it has 57.5 gb of space on it. I just got it for college and dont wanna ruin it. I have dial-up internet connection also, will the game lag really bad? I have been downloading the patch for 2 nights now and it is nowhere near complete so I was hoping to go to a wi-fi hotspot and download it if my laptop can handle the game. Thanx in advance.

[wisenor]

If i previously read correctly the requirement is about 30kb of bandwidth available at all times therefore you should be fine playing the game but of course not so good downloading!

[Kalos]

The playability completely depends on your customisations for it. If you got it with the standard 512mb of Ram, you can't play WoW at all. If you got it with 2 gig of Ram, it'll ok. It's got intergrated graphics though, so it'll be a bad gaming machine always. It's just not build for 3D games of any sort.

[lewisarich]

I got the same laptop 1g ram and the 128MB stand alone graphics with a cable modem that I access wirelessly. No lag. Graphics options are turned up almost all the way on the game; I did not go all the way up because I could not see a difference in the quality. It is nice to play all over the house. I would recommend getting a track ball over a mouse, I use a Logitech marble. Then you do not have to a flat surface to use, great for traveling. Great for the airport waiting at the gate. Takes some getting used to but I have using one for years. I converted over my wife and several people in my office.

[Toxicshadow]

If you got it with the standard 512mb of Ram, you can't play WoW at all.
Actually, the laptop I'm writing this post on got 512MB of ram, of which a fair amount is used for Windows XP, and I have no problem keeping 60 FPS IG... assuming that I turn all settings to the minimum.

Actually this runs more smoothly than my PC (3GB of ram, kickass graphics, dualcore 3GHz CPU..) as I got lots of addons and maxed out settings on it.


As for the trackball... "Takes some getting used to"?
Admittedly I only spent a month with one before I gave up, but unless you travel A LOT I don't see it beating a laser mouse... well, except on the cost of precision, as you do have the edge there..
And it'll take out a balled or optic mouse any day.

[dwarfenhelm]

my laptop is a dell inspiron 512 mb and 68mb onboard card that the kiids use. its a bit laggy but it still works