2013-01-19, 04:25 PM
few things to mention about the performance of the said laptop:
the intel atom series is generally a low power and lolw power consuming consumer chip, usually found in netbooks. they don't have a lot of processing power.(remember, ghz does not dictate performance, it only dictates the cycle speed, but not how much work it takes in that set time period, which is a marketing ploy)
with that in mind, its probably a laptop without a dedicated card. if the processor or motherboard chipset has an IGPU(integrated graphics processing unit) it has a very small amount of VRAM(Video random access memory), and will use some of the system ram as VRAM. then the game itself will use up ram, and if your friend was running an igpu on 1gb ram, they must be at the most uncrowded places possible.
the intel atom series is generally a low power and lolw power consuming consumer chip, usually found in netbooks. they don't have a lot of processing power.(remember, ghz does not dictate performance, it only dictates the cycle speed, but not how much work it takes in that set time period, which is a marketing ploy)
with that in mind, its probably a laptop without a dedicated card. if the processor or motherboard chipset has an IGPU(integrated graphics processing unit) it has a very small amount of VRAM(Video random access memory), and will use some of the system ram as VRAM. then the game itself will use up ram, and if your friend was running an igpu on 1gb ram, they must be at the most uncrowded places possible.