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.

Battery life?

[gEvil (beta)]

Anyone know what sort of battery life this thing gets? : p

Raid Options

[QuantumRiff]

Rather than just raid 0 drives, they also have an option for a 64GB Flash drive, and 200GB second hard drive. This looks like an interesting idea. Get the speed and power savings of a flash drive, and the second drive can spin up and store more when you need it to, then go back to sleep.

SLI Video?

[tji]

I have never actually played WoW, but I have seen others playing it, and the graphics didn't look like they were all that intensive.. Does WoW really need the high end SLI graphics capabilities?

On that Dell laptop, what accounts for the ridiculous cost? The basic specs didn't look like anything exotic.. 160GB 7200RPM drive, 2GB RAM, 2.2GHz Core2Duo, not exactly pushing the limits with that.

The only exotic pieces were the SLI video, and the "physics accelerator". Would those two things really add $2,500 on to the price of a laptop?

Re:Is this really needed?

[twistedsymphony]

I know how you feel... "but... I spent $500 on that 4meg hard drive!"

Maybe us /. posters should pool all our old equipment together and open a chain of computer museums.

FigurePrint

[uigrad_2000]

The best part of the deal is not described well on the Dell site. You get a figurine of your character in a snow-globish type of thing. Still overpriced by my estimation, but important none-the-less. Here's a video showing the FigurePrint:

FigurePrint Demo [youtube.com]

This blog [wired.com] says that you'll also get a special in-game pet. Those who don't play WoW don't understand how much value people put on such things. Many people buy blizzcon tickets ($100) each year just to collect the in-game pet from that year.

Re:Um...EVE, anyone?

[murdocj]

Yeah, sometimes we're playing with friends and they have to take a break because one of their kids had a nightmare or some such.

Of course, the kids come in handy, apparently one of our friends is upping her fishing skill by "letting" her child fish.