Acer Nitro for WoW

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I took the plunge and ordered an Acer Nitro laptop for just a little over $800 so that I can do some of the more mundane stuff in WoW (WQs, assaults, leveling alts, professions, fishing, etc.). Probably could still raid, but I purchased this laptop so that I could play at work, tethered to my mobile phone as the hotspot. With so much downtime at my job, I’d be stupid not to take advantage. Any thoughts?

Acer Nitro 5 - 15.6" 1920x1080 IPS
i5 8300H
8 gigs ram (considering upgrade eventually)
256 SSD (considering upgrade or using SD card slot for additional)
Geforce GTX 1050Ti (4gb GDDR5)

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First thing you’ll want to do is populate that empty 2.5" slot with another storage drive. 256 doesn’t get you far.

Otherwise, it will probably be fine hardware-wise. I don’t know how good your connection is going to be with that phone tether, though.

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They’re actually not bad. Was in a place with crap internet that would go out once in awhile and had to tether. Usually got sub 100ms pings, and bandwidth wasn’t an issue because 4g-lte was clocking in at like 30 down and 3 up, and just playing wow requires much less then that. Just depends on location.

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