How is my new notebook?

I just bought this for school next year, but with a little focus on casual gaming. I don%26#39;t play much... just games like WoW, Medieval II, BF2 and BF2142, etc... How should it run?HP Pavilion 9330Vista Home PremiumIntel Core 2 Duo T5300 1.73 ghz17 inch WXGA Screen2GB DDR2 Ram160GB Hard DriveNvidia GeForce Go 7600 (256mb)  How is my new notebook?
Pretty nice notebook, it should run fine on WoW in max settings, others it should be OK at medium.How is my new notebook?
install the games. play them. tada! you see how they run!
ya, the 7600 go is good for light gaming.the 7900 go would have been better (equivelant to a 7800 desktop) Too bad you couldn%26#39;t wait a little longer because dxd 10 mobile gpu%26#39;s were just released and are just starting to be put into new notebooks (some from hp).   
It doesn%26#39;t arrive until around Thursday, should%26#39;ve specified. Yeah, as long as stuff runs I could care less. I run things on medium settings already on my desktop, so this is actually an upgrade. Only thing that%26#39;s a downgrade is the CPU, where I%26#39;ll be going from 3.00 ghz to 1.73 ghz. How%26#39;s that going to be different? I%26#39;m not very tech-savvy.
Notebooks seem like a waste of money to me. They are good for word/school, but gaming notebooks seem worthless. I did have intrest in buying a notebook for gaming once, but then I realized that I would have to use a touchpad to lay FPS with (probably hell) and I couldnt upgrade my notebook at all. Yes it its a good notebook, but I belive it is a waste unless you just have zero space for a small desktop pc.
[QUOTE=''Swiftstrike5'']Notebooks seem like a waste of money to me. They are good for word/school, but gaming notebooks seem worthless. I did have intrest in buying a notebook for gaming once, but then I realized that I would have to use a touchpad to lay FPS with (probably hell) and I couldnt upgrade my notebook at all. Yes it its a good notebook, but I belive it is a waste unless you just have zero space for a small desktop pc.[/QUOTE]Or, y%26#39;know, you could shell out 15 bucks and buy a mouse. 
1.73ghz isnt much but if its c2d its like 40 % faster than it says but 4 gaming its not really enough will be fine 4 wow , when you get it test on systemrequirmentslab.com that will tell you how well it can play games.  
[QUOTE=''Swiftstrike5'']Notebooks seem like a waste of money to me. They are good for word/school, but gaming notebooks seem worthless. I did have intrest in buying a notebook for gaming once, but then I realized that I would have to use a touchpad to lay FPS with (probably hell) and I couldnt upgrade my notebook at all. Yes it its a good notebook, but I belive it is a waste unless you just have zero space for a small desktop pc.[/QUOTE] Dont knock gaming notebooks i have a ASUS A8JS and i love it and i play oblivion @ 1024x768 all the time. most notebooks come with a mouse.
[QUOTE=''AsinineZomg''][QUOTE=''Swiftstrike5'']Notebooks seem like a waste of money to me. They are good for word/school, but gaming notebooks seem worthless. I did have intrest in buying a notebook for gaming once, but then I realized that I would have to use a touchpad to lay FPS with (probably hell) and I couldnt upgrade my notebook at all. Yes it its a good notebook, but I belive it is a waste unless you just have zero space for a small desktop pc.[/QUOTE]Or, y%26#39;know, you could shell out 15 bucks and buy a mouse. [/QUOTE]Do notebooks come with built in tables now? That would be a way to make money. Have a table that connects to your notebook so you can actualy use a mouse. 
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[QUOTE=''cpgannon'']It doesn%26#39;t arrive until around Thursday, should%26#39;ve specified. Yeah, as long as stuff runs I could care less. I run things on medium settings already on my desktop, so this is actually an upgrade. Only thing that%26#39;s a downgrade is the CPU, where I%26#39;ll be going from 3.00 ghz to 1.73 ghz. How%26#39;s that going to be different? I%26#39;m not very tech-savvy.[/QUOTE]Your CPU is an intel core 2 duo which is a dual core. That means you%26#39;re running 1.73ghz twice, so to speak. You%26#39;ll be able to run multiple programs simultaneously, faster, and run single programs that utilize dual cores, faster. So when you run one program that utilizes both cores, i.e. a game, you%26#39;ll be running it at around 3.46ghz. So your new CPU is not a downgrade from your old.
[QUOTE=''spikepigeo''][QUOTE=''cpgannon'']It doesn%26#39;t arrive until around Thursday, should%26#39;ve specified. Yeah, as long as stuff runs I could care less. I run things on medium settings already on my desktop, so this is actually an upgrade. Only thing that%26#39;s a downgrade is the CPU, where I%26#39;ll be going from 3.00 ghz to 1.73 ghz. How%26#39;s that going to be different? I%26#39;m not very tech-savvy.[/QUOTE]Your CPU is an intel core 2 duo which is a dual core. That means you%26#39;re running 1.73ghz twice, so to speak. You%26#39;ll be able to run multiple programs simultaneously, faster, and run single programs that utilize dual cores, faster. So when you run one program that utilizes both cores, i.e. a game, you%26#39;ll be running it at around 3.46ghz. So your new CPU is not a downgrade from your old. [/QUOTE]Not all games utilize both cores by the way. Some need patches to do that while others won%26#39;t do it at all. 
Interesting. Thanks for all the feedback guys. I%26#39;ll update once I get it and test some games out.
this should actually probably be in the hardware forums but whatever... I hate those rules anway... looks like a pretty good notebook to me.