has anyone tried running WoW on a netbook?

[nageov3t]

basic specs, N270 cpu / 1GB ram / on-board graphics with a 10.3" screen and running WoW off a usb thumb drive.

how playable do you think it'd be if all I needed to do was use it as a chatroom with graphics?

 

[techmanc]

Sound painful if at all possible. What netbook is it like to look at the specs?

Have you read this article might just what your looking for?
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3509

 

[EarthwormJim]

Check the eee pc forums, there's a few guides I think to making wow playable.

Most netbooks are as fast if not faster than my Pentium 4 M laptop, and WoW was sorta playable with no tweaking.

 

[mpilchfamily]

You only need it as a chat room.

Does no one you talk to have access to a Ventrilo account? What about Skype?

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: loki8481

how playable do you think it'd be if all I needed to do was use it as a chatroom with graphics?

Why would you want to pay 15 dollars a month for a medieval-esque fantasy chatroom? Just download Skype, Teamspeak, or Ventrilo.

 

[Sureshot324]

If you want a netbook that can play games, I'd wait until netbooks based in the Nvidia Ion platform come out. The problem with current netbooks is the Intel nano is a decent CPU, but they're usually paired with the Intel 945G chipset which is like 4 years old and pretty terrible. Ion pairs an Intel Nano with an Nvidia 8400M.

Here's a demo vid of them playing COD4 on it:
http://www.notebooks.com/2009/...-to-netbooks-ces-2009/

 

[techmanc]

I posted the AnandTech NVIDIA's Ion Platform review earlier post but here the link again
It has WoW test in it.

NVIDIA's Ion Platform

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3509

 

[Zap]

I've tried WoW on the MSI Wind (pretty standard Atom 1.6GHz with Intel IGP and 1GB RAM). It worked. That's about all I can say about it. It wasn't necessarily that great of a gaming experience, but it functioned. Everything was turned down and it was still choppy. Note that these days I game on a GTX 260 so someone who has always gamed on integrated video might find the netbooks to be acceptable.