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Old January 27th, 2009, 06:30 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Looking into a laptop, need some advice

Was thinking about purchasing a laptop, nothing too pricey as I am a low budget college student. Am looking to be able to do the usual on a computer, homework (microsoft office), browse the net, music, movies, and like most college kids, play WoW at a decent fps (20) at medium settings.

I have been looking into quite a few computers and came across the HP Pavilion DV6-1030us

link here: HP® Official Store — Buy an HP Pavilion dv6-1030us Entertainment Notebook PC, Onyx (NB145UA#ABA) from HP?

a question about something i see on here.....says "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD (shared) with up to 1759MB total available graphics memory"------ Is that good? bad? average? What would it mean in terms of playing a game like WoW?

and also

A toshiba l355 found here Newegg.com - TOSHIBA Satellite L355-S7902 NoteBook Intel Pentium dual-core T3400(2.16GHz) 17.0" Wide XGA+ 3GB Memory DDR2 800 250GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi Intel GMA 4500M - Laptops / Notebooks
Hm....also says "128MB-1342MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory" What exactly does this mean, especially in terms of WoW?
thoughts? opinions?

and finally....

Acer As5735

Newegg.com - Acer Aspire AS5735-6694 NoteBook Intel Core 2 Duo T6400(2.00GHz) 15.6" Wide XGA 4GB Memory DDR2 667 250GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi Intel GMA 4500MHD - Laptops / Notebooks

Now i know i mentioned WoW several times, and while this isnt THE thing im concerned about, its defiantly something i would like to be able to do. Currently on my (crappy) desktop i can only get like 13fps on the lowest settings so yeah any predictions with these? Thoughts? Opinoins? Anything else you could recommend?

Again as always, thak you for ALL help
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