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wuzup101 · Feb 8, 2005, 12:34 AM

Well I finally did it... I ordered 2 new games for my currently gameless powerbook. I have RoN at home for my PC, but I belive my brother has stolen it anyway, so I needed to get myself a mac copy. Anyway, can I expect both of these games to run reasonably well on my powerbook (see sig for specs)? From what I've read here they both should work... just though I'd do one final check before they get mailed out.

Also, does the current WoW normal edition come with a month of service? or do I have to shell out some initial cash for that too?

Weezer · Feb 8, 2005, 02:38 AM

free month, but you still have to enter a credit card in the beginning...

Level 45 hunter, woot

wuzup101 · Feb 8, 2005, 09:58 AM

IC IC... I think I'll have to hold out on registering until spring break or I'll get no work done. Luckly I have no money to go anywhere for spring break so I can sit my ass at home and play halo 2 and WoW... I'm sure RoN will hold me over until then... I already know it's a great game...

jpg71 · Feb 8, 2005, 10:27 AM

WoW will run fine on your PB. I play it daily on my PB15 1.5ghz 1GB RAM 128MB VRAM.

With all graphic options on high except for distance, It's not as smooth as on my wife's AMD2000 with a 2 year old NVidia in it, but I don't find myself at a disadvantage.

It can lag quite a bit in a really heavily populated area like Ironforge's auction house, but once all the data and textures are loaded, it's not bad. I get around 10 frames per second in those instances. Out in the open, I get 20-30 FPS easily.

wuzup101 · Feb 9, 2005, 06:10 PM

Luckly the disk is a hybrid cd and I have a fairly decent gaming PC too... too bad it's not up at school with me...

redJag · Feb 9, 2005, 07:26 PM

Originally posted by wuzup101:
Luckly the disk is a hybrid cd and I have a fairly decent gaming PC too... too bad it's not up at school with me...

Just in case you didn't realize it, your friend will still have to purchase the retail box before he can continue past the first 10 days.

wuzup101 · Feb 10, 2005, 06:27 AM

Originally posted by redJag:
Just in case you didn't realize it, your friend will still have to purchase the retail box before he can continue past the first 10 days.

I don't think you read that correctly. I'm not talking about installing it on a friend's computer. I'm saying that I have a gaming PC at home that I didn't bring up to school with me. I'd be using the same account on both it and my powerbook, which I'm fairly sure is possible as per previous posts.

jpg71 · Feb 10, 2005, 01:23 PM

Yeah, I reguarly switch between different machines, some PC's, some Macs, all using my own WoW account and it's all good.

The hybrid CD is a great feature. Kudos to Blizzard

juanvaldes · Feb 10, 2005, 04:26 PM

got a dual 1Ghz box with GF4Ti, since neither of these games are SMP aware I get a marginal boost from the OS. But both run fine and look good, with a faster CPU you should be fine.

redJag · Feb 10, 2005, 06:20 PM

Originally posted by wuzup101:
I don't think you read that correctly. I'm not talking about installing it on a friend's computer. I'm saying that I have a gaming PC at home that I didn't bring up to school with me. I'd be using the same account on both it and my powerbook, which I'm fairly sure is possible as per previous posts.

Oh yeah, totally misread that. I switch between mac and PC all the time :o

wuzup101 · Feb 10, 2005, 09:45 PM

Yeah I figured you either just read part of a reply or whatnot. I have a nice nforce2 based PC with an overclocked athlon at 2300mhz w/ a gig of pc3200 and a radeon 9800pro 128mb also overclocked. Runs games like butter... cant wait...