Can my dell inspiron 1501 play world of warcraft?

Answer:

Depends, how much RAM you get on that thing I know it can step up to 2GB, what cpu have you get is it one of the amd dual cores if so then that'd be better, the graphics card is honourable a ATI radeon xpress 1150 256MB. So depending on the ram you should be right.
Make sure you have ample memory and hard drive space on your computer. Also, product sure you have efficient online internet connection if you plan to play the activity online since World of Warcraft is very graphics intensive winter sport.