Would this have the capacity for gaming, such as playing Minecraft without lag?
1757191
No. The processor is not fast enough to guarantee no lag in a game like Minecraft.
1757192
Definitely opt for the 2.4 GHz (notice that amazon has four different on same page); the 2.4 GHz is a bit more expensive.
1757193
The processor (2.4 Gz Intel Core 2 Duo) is über fast. You can upgrade the memory to 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, maybe even to 6 GB. Very fast!
869101
Well I run Microsoft flight simulators on this at high settings...no lag or anything. So use that as a guide. Its also rated well for the high graphics games like cod and bf.
1927466
Easily. You could probably run a small Minecraft server on this machine with no problems.
2261983
Unless you know how to instal a graphics card I wouldn't recommend it. You may get by with WOW or minecraft at low settings but not games like call of duty unless you modify it.
1495891
The onboard video will be fine for Minecraft, just make sure you have enough ram to share with it.
803338
Depends on what kind of games you want to play, but my guess is that it won't work well. The processor is very limited, which is great when serving movies, music and pictures, but anything remotely difficult, such as rendering game images, and you'll run into problems.
879217
you can but this will not run minecraft well. if you need help finding a better laptop, let me know. tomorrow they should have some good sales and you should be able to get a pretty good laptop at decent prices.
842179
I have this laptop and while it plays it ok, minecraft is very cpu intensive.expect 60-70 fps with optifine
587918
This laptop has right around the minimum required processing power needed for Mine Craft. I would say you can probably use it for games in such however a bit more processing speed may be needed.
1669720
The laptop is a decent one it can run world of warcraft or diablo 3. Not sure on minecraft the screen hinges on satellite are bad if screws are missing so make sure all screws are still in it if you get one
851568
This laptop was so slow that we returned it. I doubt that it would run Minecraft.
590203
Mine runs minecraft on maximum settings pretty alright. For a game like that for sure get a graphics card upgrade and maybe another stick of RAM.
233815
probably great... I have this and 4gb ram, and it hasn't had any problems doing anything... I haven't set up an actual server on it, but it plays minecraft on full everything on win7 great. I have one of the cheapest radeon graphics cards with it, and I am completely blown away. This is way more power than I expected it to have. a definite buy...
797817
We have not used it for Minecraft, but I am sure it would be just fine. My kids have played other games on the computer with no issues.
233816
This should run that just fine. I run a dedicated Minecraft server in Linux Mint with 1.5GB of RAM allocated to the Java process. It hardly ever goes over 10% CPU usage.
1259877
It can handle games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, League of Legends, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Team Fortress 2, Minecraft etc. not all on high settings.
527218
Yeah of course. Besides running programs on it, I also use it to play starcraft 2. The game runs at ultra quality with no problem.