Any Laptop suggestions for playing WoW?

nataku00

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I have been hooked on to World of Warcraft by my friends and find it is tough to kick the addiction when I travel for work. Any suggestions for specs in a laptop or actual laptop models that will play WoW semi decently when compared to my existing desktop (see sig)? As for price range, looking to spend $1000-1500.
 

Shadowmage

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^^wtf seriously....

Try an AMD64 laptop with a Radeon 9700 128mb. IBUYPOWER sells one for around your price range.
 
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Ibuypower laptop is ok, but you can get the Gateway 7420GX from Best Buy for about $1250 when it is on sale and the specs are just as good except for the video card. It has the 64MB 9600, which according to most benchmarks is close to the 9700.
 

novasatori

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I play it on my WUXGA Inspiron 8600 from Dell, not at high settings but I make it by at 1920x1200 widescreen @ 40fps. Plus the laptop is easily mobile @ 7 lb.

I paid $1600 for it.

Keep eye out for coupons.
 

trikster2

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I"m looking for something like this too.

Right now I'm leaning towards the inspiron 9200

Centrino, 7.7lb, 17" screen, Radeon 9700 128mb

Just waiting for a good price
 

nataku00

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I"m looking for something like this too.

Right now I'm leaning towards the inspiron 9200

Centrino, 7.7lb, 17" screen, Radeon 9700 128mb

Just waiting for a good price

This was what I was looking at as well. Looks like at least a 9700 128mb vid card and a 7200 rpm hdd. Just looks like I'll have to look around for a decent price.
 

trikster2

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Bestbuy this week had a gateway/emachines with 1gb ram, 80gb hard drive AMD64 3400, DVD writer 15.4" screen radeon 9550 mobil (whatever that is) for $1249. Othere than the graphics it's close to the sysem in your sig nataku00
 

Lairans

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Plays great on my friend's Sager NP3790.
played the game on his sytem for like a week while I was waiting for my video card :)