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    cheap laptop that can run WoW

    Preferably at least medium settings but with shadows lowest (since shadows love to eat frames)
    I know good gaming laptops are not cheap, but I only plan on playing less intensive games like WoW, Hearthstone, D3, and LoL so I'm looking for something in the 500-600 range. Maybe a bit higher if its guaranteed to run it comfortably.

    http://www.bestbuy.com/site/acer-asp...skuId=3339002#

    I've been searching and this is actually the best one I've found so far. I know that cheap gaming laptops sacrifice either cpu or gpu but I'm not sure which is more important. Not completely savvy on computers so looking for suggestions!

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    That laptop will have trouble running wow, even on low settings it will hum around 30fps. To be 100% honest, its very difficult to find a laptop that will run wow at medium settings in your price range.
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    Unfortunatley that's not enough for decent dedicated graphics in a notebook (at least 750m), so you're going to be looking at AMD APU based machines in that price range. APUs essentially give you the best of both worlds, dedicated-like performance via actual Radeon cores built into the CPU itself. Something like this is a good deal in that range and will handle the games you listed well enough:

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...9SIA1J21GB9869

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    Quote Originally Posted by lloose View Post
    That laptop will have trouble running wow, even on low settings it will hum around 30fps. To be 100% honest, its very difficult to find a laptop that will run wow at medium settings in your price range.
    Intel machines, maybe. AMD setups, that's not the case at all.
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