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Dell's World of Warcraft Laptop
Psychor writes "Dell has released a high specification new laptop complete with World of Warcraft branding (Horde and Alliance versions available). With a starting price of $4,499 it's not cheap, but does feature SLI graphics and AGEIA PhysX technology (a laptop first). RAID and solid state storage are also options." Unfortunately for purchasers, the laptop won't boot on tuesday mornings until early afternoon, and some days you just won't be able to log in.
For that price it should come with a lifetime subscription. Actually, it might just be cheaper to switch to meth.
Would the Alliance laptop not be able to boot unless it outnumbered the Horde laptops 2 to 1? ;)
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Wow plays fine on my current machine, and it would be nice to play it on a laptop, but for $4500.00 I can pay a sherpa to carry my desktop where ever I go.
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So you can watch the resale value of it plummet as it is superseded both by new technologies and new trends in MMOs?
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Unfortunately for purchasers, the laptop won't boot on tuesday mornings until early afternoon, and some days you just won't be able to log in.
That was great.
It has a battery?
Doesn't really matter. Once it dies you just have to wait for it to respawn at a graveyard and run back to your desk.
Egads, this is getting rediculous. Eventually they'll start selling the Warcraft car, the Warcraft home, and even the Warcraft refrigerator, so you never have to give up your Warcraft addition for pesky things like driving to the grocery store or having a life.
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I think it boils down to which battery was used. Sony batteries are obviously from the goblins.
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Costs as much as an epic flying mount, fer chrissakes!
Does it come with a WOW mouse? I guess it would look something like a hedgehog on steroids...
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While World of Warcraft is not that demanding on hardware, there are plenty of other games that are.
There isn't any stipulation that WoW is the only game you can play on this. It's simply a high end gaming laptop that happens to be WoW themed.
Or maybe some people just want to play WoW on a laptop that can also handle Vista Aero :P
The Alliance laptop would need a higher level laptop to help it boot up.
That said, I can see some redeeming value here, provided they design it so that the Horde laptop randomly crashes and reboots, mysteriously formats your hard drive at regular intervals, sends filthy e-mails to your mother and electrocutes your dog.
A $100 copy of Windows XP on any computer will do that just fine.
Is your 1.5 GHz Ram running a 1.21 Jigawatts?
When you get to the step 4, the parts are of no worth to anyone.
I disagree, they have a use. For example, I've still got my old ZX Spectrum. I showed it to my son last year, and he asked me in all seriousness where the dvd's went in. Then I mentioned the memory capacity (oh how awesome 48k was back then..) and he looked at me like it was time for me to visit the 'special' home.
Ok so the use was to make me feel old and look silly, but it's still a use..
So for Horde fans in this thread, is getting modded Troll a complement?
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One of the reasons I keep my son locked in the basement until he can learn to program 6510 chip. Maybe in a couple of years I will let him on to the 386 (come on, I am not heartless, no 286 for him).
It comes with a Golden Ticket to get a FigurePrint of your character, a WoW backpack, novels, trading cards, an LCD stat screen(!!!) and a little guillotine to castrate yourself with to ensure you never get laid!!!
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Can you let me out now anyway ? I'm nearly 38 now.
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