suitable laptops for playing world of warcraft?
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1. For playing world of warcraft an laptop, you can buy cheaper than that. What important is, world of warcraft requirement specification is fullfilled. You can look at the back of the gamebox for the requirement or just simply ask the storeman/woman or googling.\n\n2. What importants to be noted are graphic card, processor and memory requirements.\n\n3. Try HP dv5163 (had awesome specification for laptop gamers, Nvidia 7400 512mb dedicated graphic card!) for the price $ 1400\n\n4. Toshiba Tecra A6 with graphic card nvidia 256mb dedicated! (cause there were also tecra A6 with different specs) for the price $1500. (mine)\n\n5. Noted that 2 laptop above are with great memory graphic card and dedicated! not shared memory! For gamers, i really recommend this spec (minimum dedicated memory graphic card 128mb dedicated)\n\n6. For $1000 below, you can find a lot of laptop with 128mb memory graphic card shared that can play world of warcraft smoothly like acer aspire 5572, toshiba satellite m105, compaq presario v3027 & v3161, etc
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It comes down to what you plan to use the system for.  If you are a mobile person and tend to use the system for email, web browsing, IMing and such, a laptop would probably be fine.  If you are into gaming, keeping databases, or developing websites, a desktop would be more suitable.  Keep in mind that a laptop with todays technology is not as powerful as a desktop.  The mobile CPUs used in laptops run slower and consume less power and that translates to lower performance.  This may be tolerable if your applications don't require a lot of power.  Laptops don't have the robustness of desktops, they are more expensive and have more problems that are more expensive to fix to name a few downsides to laptops.  Bottom line is you have to consider your lifestyle and what you are going to use the system to do.
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Worlds of Warcraft, since it is one of the few that will actually run on a Mac without emulation.  That will probably change once Macs switch to x86 chips, though.
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If you want a computer for gaming (I'm guessing you play WoW or EQ/EQ2) buying a Dell is a waste of money.  The on board graphics cards don't have the power to give good resolution and you really need about 768mb RAM or better (I use about 2gig duel channel).  You would be better off going to a local computer store and seeing what it would cost to have them build you a computer.\n\nFor optimal proformance I would suggest a minimum 2.5ghz processor, 1gig ram, and a 256mb vid card. Depending on your mother board you can build it for less than $1000 and it will last longer than any dell on the market and you can upgrade it as needed (If you have 512 Ram sticks in your computer now save them and put them in the new machine, nothing better than cutting down cost by scraping older systems)\n\nBut trust me trying to get out cheap with a gaming pc will doom you to a life of lag and fustration.  I got a buddy running w/ a standard dell package and he pulls about 15fps average and lags constantly (to compare I push around 40+ fps on the highest settings) FPS=frams per sec
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It depends on the chip used for the integrated graphics, but most on-board video cards would have a tough time with WoW or Galaxies.  Depending on if you have an AGP port of PCI-Express port on your motherboard, there are a number of budget cards that would allow you to play those games at a decent speed and frame rate without killing your wallet.  I run an old AGP Radeon 9600 and it is able to play WoW perfectly well.
807642
There are really no such things as a cheap gaming laptop, you are going to have to pay for a gaming laptop.  I would recommend either Dell or www.cyberpowerpc.com for reasonable prices.
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I have the exact model, I've played a few games on here (WOW, Diablo II, and Emulators.) and they run pretty well. When playing a game, be aware of your battery. It usullay shortens it to 1hour or an hour and a half. Just a tip, all blizzard games (Diablo, Warcraft III, World of Warcraft) all work with Mac.
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Well that depends on your budget and if you want a desktop or laptop.  I think the cheapest thing you can do is to purchase an off-the-shelf system and then add what you need to it if it does not have everything you want.  Rule #1, never go with a Sempron or Celeron processor, I don't care what you're doing, they're slow for the even most basic tasks.  Rule #2 is slightly harder to avoid and that is never get an integrated graphics chip and again, I don't care what you're doing, integrated graphics are not only slow they also steal from your primary memory.  Rule #3, don't listen to a word the sales people tell you, chances are they don't know about the product they are selling and are poorly informed on how to help you decide what is best for you, fortunately, you have me.  But, you probably knew a good deal of this already, being young and all.  Rule #4 is to try to find one with at least 1GB of memory, however it may not be possible at lower price points and it may end up being cheaper to purchase more memory and install it yourself.\n\nI took the liberty of looking up some desktops under $500 (I'm assuming a limited budget) and the only one with 1GB of memory is this Acer Aspire which has a 200GB SATA hard drive and not too bad for being $500.  The only problems I see are that it claims nVidia graphics and my assumption on this matter is that they mean the Geforce 6100 IGP which isn't horrible but isn't that great either, it will run older games like Doom 3 fine but not games like FEAR or GRAW.  If you need to upgrade the graphics in that (since it has a PCIe x16 slot), go with a Geforce 7600GS or 7600GT depending on your budget.  But all in all that PC should suit your needs quite nicely, provided you don't do heavy gaming or multitasking (like me).  Here's the link, http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Acer-Aspire-trade-Desktop-PC-AST160-UA3402-/sem/rpsm/oid/149055/catOid/-12962/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do\n\nIf you're looking for a laptop, options become narrower and prices go up significantly.  I'm not saying this is the cheapest laptop with the features to look for but if you want one with 1GB of memory, a large hard drive at 100GB (which is large for a laptop) and a dedicated 128MB Geforce 7400 Go graphics card and an Intel Core duo processor at 1.83GHz you will end up spending nearly $1400, http://www.circuitcity.com/rpsm/oid/149457/originURLEncoded/http%253A%252F%252Fwww.circuitcity.com%252Frpsm%252FcatOid%252F-12963%252FNtk%252FAll%252FNtt%252Ftv%252520tuner%252Frpem%252Fccd%252Fcategorylist.do/rpem/ccd/productDetailSpecification.do#tabs\n\nRule #5 is to buy an AMD processor whenever possible, in some cases it is not like with the laptop.  I would rather get an Intel processor + dedicated graphics than an AMD processor with integrated graphics.  I think I covered everything, good luck with your choice.
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Yea dude, I was looking for a lap top that had a lot of memory and was super fast.  My tech guy at work said that I would need something that is suitable for gaming and if I wanted a laptop it would cost me about 2500-3000.  Instead I bought the latest model Gateway 2g hard drive, dual processor CPU for 800.  It's the shiznit.
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actually, right now is a bad time to buy a laptop, i would wait a few months for intel's next-gen merom core duo which will be a 64-bit supported processor (unlike the current yonah core duos)\n\nanyways, less than $1000 won't get u much when it comes to a laptop.\n\ncpu: either intel pentium m centrino, amd turion, or intel core duo (if possible)\n\nmemory: 1gb or higher (doesn't really matter what speed the memory is at because u probably won't be doin ne overclocking or such)\n\nvideo card: any will work since you aren't playing any games\n\naudio: if audio is a huge concern, you should buy a separate audio card to stick into the laptop. otherwise, most intel laptops come w/ an onboard HD audio chipset.\n\nmy reccomendation: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834115245
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I would recommend the Alineware Area 51 m5500. \nIts not as expensive as others and is just as good and does not weigh as much. You can build to order an Area 51 on alienware.com. If go all out and get the best for it it will wont cost that much more than 2000 bucks AMD would be preferable for gaming. Do not get a laptop with an Intel Celeron processor. They are not good for gaming.
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Alien Ware has sweet laptops that has high performance, and can play music games and all kind of stuff. they have won so many awards.  U can get a small one for $700. The big one cost like $4000. this is on circuit city.com. u got shop around.
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It will work more than fine, but if you really want to not sacrifice any noticable performance for quality in the  higher end graphics I would add one more gig of ram. \n\nIt is not a  necessity, but currently in high end gaming 2 gigs of system ram is the sweet spot right before you begin to see diminishing returns. ( I am speaking in terms of games which pursue graphic realism, not ones like WoW or guildwars, which look nice but are entirely different and not as resource hungry)
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As far as I can tell you have plenty of Hard Drive space and RAM.\nI dont know much about your graphics card.  I think you'd have no problem at all with World of Warcraft, the system requirements aren't all that bad.  As for the Civ's, they probably require more oomph on the video card side, your card will probably handle it ok.\n\nMight go on the net to a PC Forum or two and ask this question there.\n\nGood luck Hon.
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If you're wanting to play newer MMORPG's, including Oblivion, you'll want a fairly fast dual-core processor, 2GB of RAM, and a fast video card.\n\nI'd personally go with this processor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115004  this motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128017  any of this RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Category=17&N=2010170147+1052108080+1052308477+1052416064&Submit=ENE&SubCategory=147  an X1900XT video card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814121029  or 7900GTO: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130065  and a good, large psu, like this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817703005  or at least this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817711002
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sure it is strong enough.  Depends on what type of game you like.  I recommend Diablo II and if you are willing to risk the addiction Everquest aka EverCrack or Wow world of Warcraft.  On the last 2 just turn down some of the graphic settings and the games should run with no problem.
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The specs are great. Make sure you shop around for the best deal first try PC World and http://www.dabs.com but you can't get a laptop of much better quality than that.\n\nHope this Helps!