Laptop

[Ivack]

I swear we had a thread on this, ah well.

Ok, I've got a new contract that will take me back to the big city of London. Obviously I need to take Wow with me :)

So I'm buy a Laptop for "work", I know the general spec I'm getting but before I dive in who else here runs Wow from a Laptop? Any advice. I don't mind run at a very low res/graphics whilst I'm away.

Ta

[Cabath]

I work in the UK and Holland and how my primary installation of WOW on my laptop. It has a 128 MB Radeon graphics card 1 Gb of RAM a Pentium Mobility M 1.7 Ghz processor and a 7.2K 60G drive.

WOW is run at 1600*1200 everything on without any problems at all. This machine was the best that money could buy 2 years ago; WoW isn't that demanding I feel.

Now the same spec or better is avaiable on most laptops. Just make sure it has a good graphics card! Friends have said that memory is also important so a minimum of 512 Mb ideally 1 Gb.

[Penderin]

I have a Dell inspiron 9300 (upgraded) it has 1.83 Mhz intel centrino 1024 MB ram 256 geforce go 6800 ultra GFX 80 gig HD 17" widescreen and runs wow easy at high res even in OG at peek times :) and i think the prices for the Dell's has just come down a bit.

[Drac]

I have a ajp lappie 3.2 pentium 4 chip, 1 gig ram, 256 radeom mbility chip..(forget the number) 17" screen.

its more a desktop replacement than a mobile device cos its bloody heavy.

but as long as its plugged inot the mains its fine playing wow..on batteries i get about 1.2 hours

[Seriph]

i was toying with the idea of buying a laptop for school, but instead of settling for a word document writer spec i want a nice laptop that can run WoW and Half-Life 2 so i can annoy everyone at school with the sounds of 'ALL ON MY TARGET --LARGE CORE HOUND--' and 'BOOM CROTCH-SHOT!!!' any ideas on what i should aim for? lets pretend money isnt an issue for now

[Catnip]

these look nice for gaming: http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/xps_m170?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs

[Ivack]

Nice guys, thanks.

Pen, that machine I was looking at. Getting quite cheap now, think it's around £700-£800.

Has anyone got the Media Center 2005 op sys and Wow on the same machine?

[Indiana]

what happened to the snowboard career???

[Ivack]

Ah you seem, you can't make much money snowboarding. So I have to do the IT contracting thing out of season and the snowboarding in season. This my first season, I used all my monies on training. So I have 6-8 months of money making before I had back out and have some fun (and some my training :) )

[Seriph]

hope it goes well dude :) tried snowboarding once and i think i still have my scar here somewhere *unzips his trousers and shows everyone* a good reason NOT to snowboard on a dustbin lid in your local park

[Crul'shorukh]

A friend of mine went snowboarding a few years ago, hasn't recovered yet.

no joke

[Shady]

Gotta love the snowboarding. I spent weeks (and lots of money) trying to learn how to ski at a dry-slope not far from where I live and never really got the hang of it.

Went to Austria with some friends a few years back and learned how to snowboard in a matter of days. I much prefer it. Plus of course, you benefit from the knowledge that with a board you can do a lot more damage to the local 3 year-old kids who fly past at breakneck speeds showing off :)

How did we get from laptops specs to boarding?

[Seriph]

i wasnt joking either Orcan XD