wine users - Mar 2010 - Considering buying Asus Eee PC 1201N - WINE perf. question

The Asus Eee PC 1201n is a netbook that has nVidia ION and a dual core 1.6 GHz
intel Atom processor.  I am considering buying this as I do a lot of travel and
don't play the latest games or anything like that.  The only game which is
any question that I am concerned about playing is World of Warcraft.  Under
Windows this is supposed to run very well, but I have heard that WINE is CPU
intensive, and the atom is not a powerful processor.  Will performance under
WINE be comparable to the Windows performance on the Asus Eee PC 1201N (from
what I've read the windows performance is very acceptable)?

I may just get a $500 notebook otherwise (I'd rather have the lighter weight
though), although World of Warcraft is not my top priority and a lighter
portable machine would be very nice.  I could also of course just suck it up and
use Windows for WoW.

zorgoth wrote:
> Will performance under WINE be comparable to the Windows performance on the
Asus Eee PC 1201N (from what I've read the windows performance is very
acceptable)?
If WoW will work fine in OpenGL mode under Wine - should be pretty close to
native, video driver permitting. And since this is Nvidia driver should be good
as well (not without standard software problems of course).

However check AppDB see what performance people get with WoW and if it's
reliable running in OpenGL mode.