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To: wbmw who wrote (255405)	8/9/2008 12:04:59 AM
From: fastpathguru	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Not really. You called my attention to the review, and I called your attention to the World of Warcraft results. If you want to ignore the fact that it's the top selling PC game of all time, be my guest. It wouldn't be the first time you've closed your eyes to the facts. Does beg the question, wbmw... Two, in fact. The first is, exactly why does WOW on Intel's otherwise much slower IGP get anything like competitive performance? Is it because WOW is fairly obsolete graphically? Are there image-quality issues that went unnoticed? (That's certainly been known to happen.) I'd bet anything that something "special" was done to get the "top selling PC game of all time" to run with barely acceptable performance on the G45. Second, since you're setting the bar so low for the masses, (i.e. "G45 is good enough for the proles who just want to run WOW") why be snobby about the processor? Won't a dirt cheap dual-core from AMD (or Intel) be perfectly fine for all the proles who just want to surf the web and get email? If WOW is perfectly fine as your high bar, won't any old 2 or 3 year old computer work just fine? AMD's more powerful IGP, which translates directly into a better/faster visual interface along with the rest of its rich feature-set, is a better choice for many of today's PC consumers. fpg