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.

$4500?

[RandoX]

For that price it should come with a lifetime subscription. Actually, it might just be cheaper to switch to meth.

Re:Is this really needed?

[SatanicPuppy]

Would the Alliance laptop not be able to boot unless it outnumbered the Horde laptops 2 to 1? ;)

Yikes!

[slap20]

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.

Oh, wow...

[PlatyPaul]

LEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY'S laptop!

(click here [wikipedia.org] if you didn't get it)

This laptop makes a real statement...

[Anonymous Coward]

"I'm going to die broke, and a virgin!"

Re:Is this really needed?

[antifoidulus]

So you can watch the resale value of it plummet as it is superseded both by new technologies and new trends in MMOs?

Best summary ever?

[Jason1729]

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.

Re:$4500?

[securityfolk]

Nah, $4500 in meth-dollars is ~1 year (or substantially less), and you'll only *think* you're a level 70 warlock ;)

Re:Battery life?

[beavis88]

It has a battery?

Re:Best summary ever?

[SevenHands]

How can you tell a WoW addict apart from the rest of the geeks? They don't bother calling in sick on Tuesdays!

Re:Battery life?

[navygeek]

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.

Ever wonder why it's nicknamed Warcrack?

[downix]

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.

Re:Hmph..

[faloi]

I think it boils down to which battery was used. Sony batteries are obviously from the goblins.

Re:$4500?

[Peter Cooper]

You mean, as opposed to the millions of fat, bearded slobs on WOW who are "level 70 warlocks" for real? :)

Re:This laptop makes a real statement...

[192939495969798999]

Q: What kind of hooker you can get for 4500 dollars?
A: The kind that will make you wonder why anyone would spend that much money on a WOW-branded computer.

PS: that's 1 4500-dollar hooker, or 4500 1-dollar hookers...

Re:Battery life?

[Pop69]

It's not actually that ba

Golds. There are never enough.

[coolhaus]

Costs as much as an epic flying mount, fer chrissakes!

WOW mouse?

[threaded]

Does it come with a WOW mouse? I guess it would look something like a hedgehog on steroids...

Re:Is this really needed?

[shadowrat]

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

Re:Is this really needed?

[RedACE7500]

The Alliance laptop would need a higher level laptop to help it boot up.

Re:Is this really needed?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Is this really needed?

[RedACE7500]

Is your 1.5 GHz Ram running a 1.21 Jigawatts?

Re:$4500?

[Hal_Porter]

I'd rather spend this amount and trade in my car for FOUR WHEELS OF FURY!!!!!

You misspelled furry.

Re:Ever wonder why it's nicknamed Warcrack?

[Hoi Polloi]

You'll never see Warcraft suntan lotion though.

Re:Is this really needed?

[rucs_hack]

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..

Re:$4500?

[hackus]

As a Non Fat, Local bearded slob Level 70 Warlock, I find myself offended.

Siphon Life, Curse of Agony, Corruption and Immolation on you!

Your going to die any minute now....

-Hack

For the Horde!

[Ogive17]

So for Horde fans in this thread, is getting modded Troll a complement?

bye bye karma!

Re:Multiboxing.

[geminidomino]

The last challenge after getting any number of characters to level 70 for an old school RPG/CRPG/MMORPGer like myself is multiboxing. For the most part WOW is pretty dead easy. Its designed to be that way, very much like the original CRPGs.

Five'll get you ten that that it was a Bizzard marketroid in disguise who started that trend... When you're finished with the game, instead of letting your 'scription lapse, you BUY ANOTHER ONE!

The Ferengi would be proud...

Re:This laptop makes a real statement...

[TommydCat]

PS: that's 1 4500-dollar hooker, or 4500 1-dollar hookers...

Or 2250 Two Dollar Hordes?

Re:Is this really needed?

[mgblst]

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).

Re:$4500?

[Anonymous Coward]

Shut the fuck up before I send out my Felguard to... what's that mom? Yeah, I'll get the garbage in just a minute. Yeah, anyway, I would kick your ass in a duel, n00b.

Re:Is this really needed?

[corifornia2]

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!!!

Modded

[StreetStealth]

(-1, Night Elf)

Dad...

[Anonymous Coward]

Can you let me out now anyway ? I'm nearly 38 now.

--
your son

Re:Is this really needed?

[AnotherUsername]

Do you really think that getting all these slashdotters together in the real world is healthy? I mean, online is one thing...but think of the children...