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My laptop and world of warcraft
« on: December 29, 2006, 02:49:19 pm »
My grandma recently gave me her year old Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. It has a pretty weak integrated graphics card, and I've read that there's no way to upgrade it on Dell forums. I did manage to get a new 512MB ram stick and put it in there, boosting it up to about 800MB of ram. The processor is 1.5GHz. It's a great non-gaming laptop, but I want to game. :P

I'm wondering, does anyone else play WoW on an Inspiron 6000, or a similar laptop with similar specs? The only thing I'm questionable about is the video card. It's pretty slow I know, but I'm not positive on the exact speed.
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Re: My laptop and world of warcraft
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2006, 02:58:42 pm »
What is the graphics card?

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Re: My laptop and world of warcraft
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2006, 02:59:48 pm »
I used to use an Inspiron 8500 (512MB RAM; GeForce 4200 Go 64MB RAM; Pentium 4 2.4GHz).  It is semi-playable in raids with the settings at default, at 1680x1050.

I would crank down video settings to minimum and set it at a very low resolution- you might at least be playable with that, although it definitely won't look very pretty.

You should definitely look at getting something more powerful, though, if you really want to play games with a laptop.  Dell sells laptops that run WoW decently (although not at max settings) for around $1000 or so.. the really high end ones can do WoW with everything maxed out, although they are much pricier.

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Re: My laptop and world of warcraft
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2006, 03:01:00 pm »
warz, I just checked and you'll do just fine if you get a good video card.

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Re: My laptop and world of warcraft
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2006, 03:34:39 pm »
warz, I just checked and you'll do just fine if you get a good video card.

Really?  How insightful, and not stated already in this topic!

I'd go with Skywing's advice.
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Re: My laptop and world of warcraft
« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2006, 06:26:46 pm »
Why not just play it on your desktop?
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Re: My laptop and world of warcraft
« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2006, 07:27:45 pm »
WoW will run on 800MHz processor, 256MB of RAM, and 8MB of VRAM, IIRC. It's not pretty, but it'll work. You're well above that so you're good, to a degree.
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Re: My laptop and world of warcraft
« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2006, 08:57:30 pm »
I think the laptop's video card might be around 8MB. I'm going to install it and give it a shot.
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Re: My laptop and world of warcraft
« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2006, 03:40:28 pm »
The laptop runs it fine, btw. :P
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