Girlfriend wants to buy a new laptop

[vesseblah]

Correct me if I wrong but isn't WoW mostly rendered by the CPU?

Yeah, you are wrong. Both are important, but GPU requirements are much lower.

[Chickat]

http://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Batta..._Gaming_Laptop

will play wow on medium-high settings, and will play swtor on medium settings.

very good deal and less then 800 bucks.

[Saithes]

http://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Batta..._Gaming_Laptop

will play wow on medium-high settings, and will play swtor on medium settings.

very good deal and less then 800 bucks.

With Intel Graphics, no.

[Martyn 470]

Does she really need a Laptop? i'd say that she should think of getting a small tower rather than a laptop, there is rather light-weight towers out there, that can run world of warcraft quite good and that aint that expensive.

told her that but she wants a laptop unfortunately

[Kyocere]

Nope lol. :P

If I am correct they user lower quality parts than for exampe Asus, which I adore btw. ASUS ftw!

I might be biased against them but numbers say they have high fail rates.


If you want my opinion: take anything but a HP or Lenovo.

They all use wd/seagate hdds anymore. They all use motherboards who are made by foxconn, they all have the same optical drives and same ram manufacturers anymore. For everyday use about any new laptop with an i5 with some sort of discrete graphics will do for light gaming.

[Chickat]

With Intel Graphics, no.

The site says wow on high swtor on medium. I dont think they would be able to false advertise sooo.

[n0cturnal]

The site says wow on high swtor on medium. I dont think they would be able to false advertise sooo.

You don't know in what situation they deem it playable, they can claim it is playable on high settings and only tried it during solo questing. I doubt they base their claims on 25man raiding.

[Ethes]

I got myself a Medion laptop, which is pretty robust and has some very decent parts in it and it runs wow pretty smooth. However, I basically went for hardware and not for design or weight. If she wants to carry it around a lot, this might not be your best option.

That said, I would always recommend a PC over a laptop when it comes down to gaming. In my opinion, laptops are terrible gaming devices that should be avoided if possible.

[anyaka21]

An HD 4000 play WoW decently? Sorry but it won't

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-H...0.69168.0.html

They ran it at 1024x768 with Medium settings and got ~75 fps or so... but 1024x768 is small as heck

I think the point is that the screen isn't going to do 1920x1080 (only 13666x780ish which is fine for a 14" screen) anyways, thus you don't really need as powerful of a graphics card. It should do fine on medium settings even in a 10-25man raid.

I'm not going to say it's going to be the best laptop for gaming, but that isn't what OP is asking for either.