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Talbain
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 Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 4:01 pm |
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| radish wrote: |
| Sadly, the only video game I play anymore is WoW. If there were a netbook that could play that well, I think I would carry it in my pocket and play it everywhere I went. I'd be the most worthless person anyone ever met. |
If all you play is WoW, most netbooks now will play WoW on its lowest settings just fine. My old notebook (this is a 7 year old notebook mind you), with a 1.4 Ghz Celeron processor and an integrated graphics card will run WoW on lowest settings at a solid 20-40 FPS. Easily playable, you can even raid with it. Just... don't expect it to look all that great. Also, PvP can be somewhat difficult because the game's draw distance will be really short, so it will be hard to see things far in the distance.
My personal recommendations? Get a Samsung NC10 or a Samsung NC20. Barring that, get an MSI Wind.
Also, Maya/Photoshop can run on netbooks. But they are VERY slow when compared to any conventional computer, even a conventional notebook. A solid-state drive can sometimes help alleviate some of the lag, but the processor is the biggest limiting factor (you might say the graphics card, but you would be wrong, since software rendering is much better than it used to be).
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Talbain
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 5:07 pm |
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| Takashi wrote: |
| Talbain wrote: |
| A solid-state drive can sometimes help alleviate some of the lag, but the processor is the biggest limiting factor (you might say the graphics card, but you would be wrong, since software rendering is much better than it used to be). |
It's worth noting solid-state drives in netbooks are normally of pretty speed and won't give you the speed boost you're looking for. And that at best, they come equipped with a single 1Gb of memory (albeit most will let you upgrade to 2Gb).
I kinda like the Compaq one. |
Yeah, SSD isn't really "there" yet as a viable HDD option, unless you've just got a ton of money (and even then you're not getting a whole lot of bang for your buck, considering the bugs that still exist in SSD hardware).
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Talbain
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 5:38 pm Post subject: Re: Can netbooks play games decently? |
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| Persona-sama wrote: |
I was thinking of getting a netbook like an Acer One or EEEpc or anything less than 400 dollars just to have a dedicated machine for running Windows games and for development. My friend uses his to run Maya and it seems to run it pretty well but I'm wondering if it's able to play the games and such.
I'd probably only play shitty games like PSU or Shin Megami Tensei Online: Imagine, but I was wondering if anyone else has some experience in these things and can tell me how they hold up. |
A netbook will run PSU or SMT: Online on lowest settings (I am not sure how well--compare minimum settings at the respective websites for these games).
You will not be able to run next-gen games on a netbook however. That is to say: anything beyond PSX emulation and you're out of luck. Any PC games beyond 2005 and you're probably out of luck.
I say you can run PSU and SMT: Online because online games have much lower requirements in general simply because the games are made with the "wide appeal" for customers. Meaning that they have to make the game very accessible to computers (and thereby customers).
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Talbain
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| Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 5:17 pm |
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http://wiki.msiwind.net/index.php/Windows_Games
Here's a list of games I found that the MSI Wind can play. I assume most other netbooks can also play them since they all basically use the same processor and similar integrated graphics cards. Also has a list of games that don't work, though pretty incomplete.
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Talbain
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| Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:48 am |
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Speaking of netbooks, where would you draw the line in terms of screen size? I tend to think of a netbook as something 10.4" or smaller, while 12.1" or bigger is a notebook. Or would you use some other form to decide on what makes a netbook a netbook (maybe battery life or form factor)?
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Talbain
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| Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:41 pm |
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Well, the MSI Wind is Taiwanese. Close.
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