You seriously just had to stop lurking in order to post this? This is terrible. 48-hour ban for lack of wit.

Well, i am playing the beta on a laptop and i raid from it as well. Cost me about £700 for duel AMD Turion processors, 1028 RAM, an Nvidia graphics card (5400 or something similar, i don't know how 'new' it is but my brother tells me it's not been out more than a year). Only thing that bothers me about laptops are the keyboards (i'm probably going to get one when the next part of my student loan comes through), but for a packard bell it is capable of handling WoW on medium/high settings with ventrilo and msn for little to no lag except server side. So, treating this purely from a "can a laptop handle raiding/pvp content" i would say yes they can but i definately paid double what i would have for a self-made desktop of the same spec.

Dell Inspiron 6400 - 2gb memory, the ATI Mobility Radeon. 1680x1050 - about 20-60 fps while raiding (AQ40, Spider wing, 5 times a week). Some areas are really bad (the trash before Huhu slows down to about 17 fps), and areas that I thought would suck are fine (like AV works great)

Only problem I'm currently having is the Wifi adapter has developed a habit of not working properly with my Netgear WRT54g after 1 year of flawless service. I'm suspecting a recent Windows patch has nerfed me.

If you're getting a Dell, and you're a fraps junkie, then make sure that it contains a loopback audio (or something, waves hands in air) so you can record the sound. I got around this with a hardware solution (looped speaker into mic with a splitter for headphones) which works, but meh. It's really hard to find out this information about the audio, and I'm kicking myself that I didn't know it was possible, but the fraps guys helped me out a lot in diagnosing the problem. Dell are cheap with their audio hardware supposedly.

This was about AUS$2k with the additional memory, and about AUS$1.7k "base" - but should be much cheaper now.

I play on the dining room table (hard surface and mouse ftw) while my wife watches TV - so I can allegedly chat with her about her day.

I run on a laptop just fine. I have the Dell E1505, 1.8ghz core duo, 1GB RAM, x1400 vid card. I can run with everything maxed out with no issues whatsoever. It does get a bit hot, but that's what the cooling pad is for =)

The new Apple laptops that came out would be really nice for running WoW :D

Anyway, i sometimes run WoW on my old powerbook G4 with only 512 mb ram. As long as I avoid Orgrimmar it does just fine. Even then i can run through the busy places without it choking all that much.

My laptop is an older Dell XPS model, before core duo was out but with a geforce 7800GTX (cpu: pentium M 2.1ghz) with 1 gig of ram.

I play wow with all settings maxed out and in an information heavy setup (I am a healer who also keeps an eye on the general raid status, threath meter and dps meter). Even when I run fraps to record our kills I do not suffer an FPS loss. The lowest FPS get I during raid usually is in suppression rooms, and even there I still float around 15-20 FPS (with fraps, vent and firefox on).

posting 3dmark 2005 scores might help aswell, mine hits about 6700 marks. (most desktop users in my guild have less)


ps: my ui is entirely ace2, but this shouldnt make that much of an impact.

Purchased a new laptop from www.ibuypower.com a month ago or so, was recommended by a number of guildmates. Haven't had any issues so far, and I play WoW on it at home/work all the time, mainly dualboxing when at home. If I play full screen I get 30-40fps in IF, I usually play in windowed mode though and that drops my FPS in IF to about 20ish. Can raid with it just fine, haven't done Thaddius on it yet, but in most raids i'm getting 20-30fps windowed mode. Haven't had any issues so far, I'd recommend checking them out.

Total cost was $1350

LCD: 15.4, 1280x800 native, going bigger then a 15.4 really starts to cost you, and laptops are usually much closer then your desktop monitor, so the smaller size isn't as noticeable.
Processor: AMD TurionT64 MT-40 CPU [2.2GHz, 1MB Cache] w/Hyper Transport Technology
Memory: 1024MB [512MB X2] DDR-400 PC-3200 Corsair (you can get this as 1 stick of memory allowing you to upgrade later, costs $20 more?)
Video Card: Mobility 256MB ATI Radeon X1600 PCI-Express
Hard Drive: 100 GB 7200rpm ATA-100
CD-RW/DVD-RW Drive: 8X Dual Format DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive
Network: On-board Realtek 10/100 LAN card, and on-board Gigabyte 802.11g WiFi
Sound: On-board something, haven't noticed a difference in quality compared to my Audigy soundcard at home.
4x USB ports, s-video, etc.

One thing I noticed when I tried (not very successfully) playing WoW on a laptop some time ago was the horrible disk access speed. Obviously this is mainly due to inadequate RAM and having to access the page file repeatedly, but I think HDD speed was also an issue. Although it may have changed since I was last looking at laptops, many of them seem to have slow hard drives to reduce heat. Just something to look out for anyway...

I need a laptop so i can play downstairs

A couple of months ago, I purchased an XPS M1210 for dell. It's a 12" with Intel Core 2 Duo. It runs the game very well, better than my current desktop, which makes me sad. Although I never intended to use the laptop to play any games with, I love being able to raid on the living room couch.

Until recently I never really liked the look of games on LCDs, but with the new glossy screens, it does look really nice.

I run WoW on a Dell Latitude D810. Widescreen, 60g HD, 1.73Ghz processor, 1gb RAM.

I run it in windowed mode so I can easily access other programs with almost all the settings on high. The only time I really notice any problems is when I am in a zone where the weather is going on. Gameplay gets kinda choppy running through STV while it's raining. The laptop allows me to easily go over my girlfriend's house and not miss a raid. Now if I could get her to stop bugging me while we're working on Razorgore I'd be set.