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hey agony

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:10 pm
by Shimian
Whats up agony! my lazy ass graduated basic training at lost in the woods. im now sitting in sam houston texas doing my combat medic AIT.
currently considering buying a laptop to play some wow.... but was curious, is a 1.7ghz intel centrino mobile sony vaio laptop capable of playing wow? lol. im a noob =(. but yeah.

for the time being i gotta go...yay for lame ass barracks maintainence. ill check back later =)

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:31 pm
by Prybutok
congratz on surviving basic shim. Do you get an AC bonus for making it through? =P

As for the laptop, it really depends on the graphics card. Avoid anything that says "Intgegrated Graphics." Dell has some pretty good gaming laptops. You might wanna check them out.

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:49 pm
by Shimian
will this support wow? lol
Intel Pentium M Processor 740, 1.73 GHz Speed / 533MHz FSB
512MB DDR2 SDRAM Optionally Upgradeable to 2GB
80GB Ultra ATA™ Hard Drive, 4200rpm
DVD+R Double Layer/DVD+/-RW Drive
10Base-T/100Base-TX Ethernet RJ-45
Integrated V.90 Modem RJ-11
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900, 128MB Dynamically Shared (RAM/Video) Memory
Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Wireless LAN Network Connection 802.11 b/g
Multimedia card reader: Memory Stick, Memory Stick® PRO/Duo with MagicGate™
PCMCIA Type II/Type I Card Slot with Cardbus Support
Windows Sound System Compatible with built-in stereo speakers
QWERTY keyboard, 86 keys with electro-static touch pad
2-4 hrs. estimated Lithium-Ion battery life
Sony Click to DVD (DVD Creation), DV gate™ (Digital Video Software), SonicStage (Digital Music)
VAIO® Media (Network file Sharing)
Ports Headphone Jack: 1 / i.LINK® IEEE1394 Interface: 1(4-pin) / Memory Stick® Media Slot: 1 /
Microphone Input: 1 (Monaural mini-jack) / USB: 2 (2.0 compliant) / VGA Output(s): 1
has to be a laptop though. with a wireless modem too....but the one im on right now wireless modem that is, runs a little faster then dsl so im assuming internet should hold up if the laptop can handle it.

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 2:49 pm
by Kanchi
borderline

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 2:52 pm
by Almon
SHould be good as long as you dont jack the setting to max

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 6:18 pm
by Fydax
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900, 128MB Dynamically Shared (RAM/Video) Memory


That means it's going to suck at anything that uses a 3D engines...like WoW.

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 8:03 pm
by Almon
Oh ha, i cant read =(

Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 1:16 pm
by shellie
/wave shimi =) grats on finishing BASIC =p