Will my laptop be good enough for LotRO? :UpdatedFollow

Last weekend I ordered a laptop. Dell didnt recieve the order till tuesday, and that was the day they cancelled the model laptop I was getting (1705). It was a good laptop and I was going to spend about $1400-$1500. After talking with dell for 3 hours, everyone knows they have great customer service people who speak ENGLISH, they finally gave me a deal. They hooked me up with a 1720/1721 model with many things that the sales person said was good.

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But I want to talk to the gamers...... Here it is!

Inspiron 1720, Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, 2.0GHz, 800Mhz, 4M L2 Cache

2GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm for Inspiron 1720

256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 8600

160G 5400RPM SATA hard drive 5400 RPM

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, English

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Edited, Jun 28th 2007 10:24am by Psthuump

Edited, Jun 28th 2007 10:24am by Psthuump

Looks good to me. Too bad they don't offer 7200 RPM drives on the Inspiron. But you should do well with a system like that. You had good timing there!

I second (or is it third or fourth or...?) the other comments.

I have something very similar to this, with a slightly slower processor but a faster HD, and it's fine. At first I had a lot of stalling, but then bumped my RAM to 1.5Gb which fixed that completely.

While I did have to turn the video features to 'very low', I changed the Distance Resolution to Ultra High. It had little impact on performance (some subtle stuttering in motion) but helped me immensely with seeing mobs & terrain.

Lotro runs on my laptop which is only half as decent as the one you are getting :)
Except i have a 7200RPM hdd, i wouldn't want anything less.

I play with settings on low, and the laptop is redhot after playing for a few hours, for the rest it is ok :)