unless you are pushing mythic jaina prog and really want cutting edge I would advise just take a break from wow until you can get an actual computer.
I’m sure you might be able to find a potato that can run it at level 1 graphics fine but that is money you could put into a better machine in the future.
However if you really wanna keep playing which I admire: despite what the first reply said you CAN run wow with onboard graphics on a laptop. I did it for several years but performance isn’t great but I ran cata through WoD on onboard graphics and even raided like that.
and to answer your original question no that computer won’t run it because you need at least 530 intel graphics to run wow on minimum settings.
you need to check this article when computer shopping.
Unfortunately to do any real gaming on PC, it takes an up front investment for hardware. WoW has always been applauded for the low end minimum requirements, but I don’t think you are going to get a laptop that can handle much in the way of games with a $500 budget, it just isn’t enough. My graphics card alone was $350. And with a laptop, the dollar doesn’t go as far.
The best recommendation is to look at the minimum settings for WoW (kindly listed already) and then try to find a laptop model that provides a little bit extra. As it was already stated, you will not be able to play games on a netbook type lightweight PC that is mostly sold for streaming, social media, and college note-taking.
I definitely would skip over anything that doesn’t offer at least a 500Gb hard drive, as WoW is a very large install. On the model you listed, I don’t think you could actually hold WoW and still have enough free space to function.
Is that a baseline Chromebook or something? That’s so barebones. The other guy had it right with “something you get your kid to do homework on”.
I also agree with Rautha and think you should save the money and get something in the $800 range in a paycheck or two if you can, rather than the $500 range right this second. Unless you absolutely must have a $2000 behemoth or something it’d be worth the wait.
Depending on your financial situation, you could potentially go the loan/Affirm route too. My SO got a ~$1200 computer built on (I think CyberPowerPC?) and is making like $90-$100 payments on it. That’s a more long term option but may allow you to afford a proper replacement rather than a temp solution fast and shouldn’t be an issue as long as you pay it on time. (Although AFAIK most of those places take a few weeks to get the thing to your doorstep, and maybe you don’t want to wait that long)
great advice on the harddrive however to add to this sometimes laptops come with a very small SSD (fast harddrive) reserved for mostly the operating system (windows 10) and a larger yet slower harddrive for other programs which you need to keep an eye out for. I have a MSI gaming laptop and the SSD isn’t quite big enough for all my games so at one point I moved all my games to my slower terrabite harddrive which had plenty of room. the downside is that load times will be slower so actually in that case if you are fortunate to have a 3.0 USB port I actually run all my games through that on an SSD external harddrive and have had virtually no issues. External harddrives for SSD have gotten pretty cheap can pick one up big enough for all blizzard games for under 100$ but that does add to your laptop budget if you can’t live with longer load times.
I have an Acer Aspire E 15 E5-575G-53VG
I use it as my travel computer and it runs WOW fine on not even the lowest settings. It cost less than $500.
Note: WoW is the only game on it. I use it mostly for writing, checking email, etc. But I do play WOW on it and run instances with my friends and have no problems.
Laptops for $500? Not really. Desktops you may be able to get something decent in that range. Search “warcraft desktop” on ebay, find something with an actual graphics card, should be fine.
You’ll want a laptop with atleast a I5 (higher is of course better), and with a deticated graphics card. You might be able to find something from HP or Acer for around that price. Dells have gotten better, I’m not sure if they have any budget laptops though. I don’t know about JP, but Walmart here often has decent deals. Their laptops aren’t great, but would work in a pinch.
I can still play on a 10 year old computer with graphics turned down. If it meets blizzard requirements, it will work. Personally, I would go for a system with graphics card and big enough SD drive.
If you don’t add other software like Microsoft 365, it makes a huge difference. My $800 laptop with no other programs besides WOW is much faster than same brand $2000 laptop that has a ton of other programs. I play two account at same time in outdoor content.
Fortunately, you no longer need to install Office onto your computer if you don’t have room. Most of their programs (atleast the important ones imo) are accessible from their website.
The laptop I linked should more then easily handle wow. It might not be able to run with the graphics all the way up, but it should be serviceable.