Satellite a75-s226 okay for World of Warcraft?

A close friend of my fathers is willing to sell his laptop to me for $300. It has P4 3.0 GHz, 512 MB RAM and 64MB Radeon 9100. Would this be okay to play World of Warcraft on? I will probably add some memory down the line. Thanks for your advice!

 

You'll absolutely need more memory. 1 gig at a bare minimum, and 1.5 or 2 gigs would be preferable.

I think that could technically play it, but you might be pushing things a bit, and you're probably going to have to expect some single-digit (and maybe some in the teens) frames-per-second. I used to have a laptop with a 64 meg Radeon 9700, and even that would struggle a fair amount with it, and that was a better video card than the 9100.

Honestly, given the amount you'd have to spend on memory as well as the laptop itself, you'd probably find better performance in even some of the current laptops you can find available for sale for around $600-700.

 

The 9100 Radeon is pretty old technology as zadillo has already pointed out, but I think you should be able to play WoW with 1.5GB or RAM or greater and all video settings at their lowest.