Okay Notebook?

[StElLaR]

Hey guys,

Okay...played through my trial period and basically on my way to go and buy WoW. Just one more thing I need your advise about.

After lightning blew my PC into PC heaven about a month ago I bought a notebook, thinking that it would be more fun than desktop which I'm a bit dissapointed with now...but what's done is done...

It's a Core 2 Duo 1.8, 2gb of DDR2 Ram, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 - 256 MB, 15.4" Widescreen.

Now, to me the Notebook runs WoW quite well (obviously I set the graphics low).

Do you think that the setup I have is well...good enough for "good enough" gameplay?

 

[Heckers]

Everything sounds good except the graphics card.
So it should run perfectly as long as some graphics "bells & whistles" are turned down a little.

 

[Surv0]

yup - good lappy except for GFX card - tried to play wow using an onboard card exactly the same as yours and couldnt, it was just to visually shocking to carry on.

 

[Surv0]

and if you will start doing instances and raids - your FPS will more than likely drop to below playability...

 

[Oculate]

I reckon it'll play fine...

Ive played on a Dell 510 laptop, dont even wanna mention specs

32mb onboard gfx card ftw!

have been kara on it, 14fps constant

 

[TheShogun]

That laptop should be fine. I've raided extensively on a Centrino 1.8ghz with 1gb ram. Just be sure to drop your display settings.

 

[Surv0]

lol - sheesh - my head starts to hurt with nething below 25 frames ;p
cant believe you can run Kara on that card.... just cant believe it

 

[werries2]

BTW why making several posts with the same topic???

 

[StElLaR]

Sorry, did't want to post my thread the first time, but dunno why...long night I suppose...

Thanks for the advise...reckon I should give it a whack...

 

[StElLaR]

Thx werries2,

Saw your reply in the other "accidental" thread...

Yeah...I mean, its comfortable seeing that when I sit at my desk I plug my flat CRT monitor in with usb keyboard and mouse and then its quite good...

Look...I dunno what WoW looks like when running off a super machine...so guess it'll just look normal to me... )

 

[Nickd]

now these are going to be "OK" notebooks:
click~!
probably $3000 odd though

 

[Nickd]

eish
click~!

 

[Surv0]

they only make the best laptops imo

 

[StElLaR]

yes...those are good too...

 

[Blatman]

Yes Alienware is good, got one coming in from the Uk in December just can't decide on duel card Sli or the newer card for Directx 10 applications.

Currently use a HP Pavilion with a 512mb card and frames are constant at about 60 even in Shat and never below 40fps, but it sucks for a game like Fear and the cpu constantly over heats and shuts down.

 

[Nickd]

you can get the new Alienware DX10 8800s in SLI.
I am on a 512MB X1600 and my laptop runs wow perfectly =)