Any WOW/LOTRO players use a laptop?

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What spec do you have?

I am thinking of getting a laptop to replace my desktop, I only play these 2 really on my PC, everything else on my 360.

The spec I am looking at is around 2.5 C2D, 8600GT (pref 512mb), 4G ram and either a 15 or 17 screen with 1440x900 as the min res.

I know I am probably not going to get full eye candy but as long as it looks good with a decent frame rate I'll be happy.
 
wow thats overkill for wow i think :P i used to play it on my laptop, amd mt-37 1.9ghz, 1gb ddr, ati x700 128mb, 15.4" WS 1280x800 (i think) and that played it fine at max everything, usually ggetting about 40-50 fps while running about,l if there was loads of ppl it would go down to about 10 at some point but was still surprisingly playable
 
I used to play wow quite comfortably on a HP Pavilion, Turion64x2 (or whatever that horrible chip was called) with a geforce 7600Go and 2GB ram. Not full settings, but high enough and ran comfortably enough too. A C2D should eat it up.
 
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I used to play wow quite comfortably on a HP Pavilion, Turion64x2 (or whatever that horrible chip was called) with a geforce 7600Go and 2GB ram. Not full settings, but high enough and ran comfortably enough too. A C2D should eat it up.
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I've got a similar laptop to this, it was a £400 dell job and it plays LOTRO comfortably on medium/low settings with draw distance set to full.
 
I used to play WoW on my laptop, but it was pre-BC. The most important thing is RAM, especially if you actually want to go to Shattrath or raid.
 
I play wow on my Dell XPS M1710. The machine itself is getting a bit long in the tooth but chews through WoW at 1900x1200 using high settings.

No issues raiding in either 40 man or 25. Large populated cities are absolutly fine as are BG's like AV with lots on the go.

Spec is C2D @ 2.33, 2 gig of ram, 7950GTX etc. Only using a 5,400 drive but it hasnt really effected performance as far as I can tell with the game.

Should be able to pick up a machine of this spec fairly resonably now I would have though, no more than £800 would be my guess.


Also got a Sony FE31M (I think it is) as comparison -

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2gig of ram
7600Go

at 1280x800 and medium settings it was fine to play on, framerates were good and strong
 
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I occasionally play on my 1.8Ghz macbook pro, chugs along but is playable. Its the screen size that puts me off playing on a laptop more than anything else. If you are healing a 25 man raid the ability to see all the player's health clearly is vital.
 
I used a IBM T43 with 1.5gig Ram... was ok when i turned down the settings only the wireless link kept it from being good.

But was playable.
 
I played WoW for quite a long time on my Vostro, it wasn't near the spec you have (1.8 dual core, 2gb ram, 8600m gt) i got ~45fps average dropping to 30ish in major cities. Ran very well, all in full detail. :)
 
I play wow on a new 2.4 MBP.. Have everything on high and its still silky smooth.. You should just get the 2.4 and save yourself even more money, I think the 2.5 is overkill if you just plan to use it for wow..
 
Firstly I can't for the life of me see why you are all recommending he doesn't need a decent laptop because Wow will play on anything, he clearly says Lotro aswell which not being a decade old in terms of graphics does actually need power. basicaly the spec required is gonna be to play Lotro how he wants, anything that can play lotro, can play Wow, with ease.

Secondly, if you're a big gamer you might be shooting yourself in the foot. the first couple years after consoles release dev's go crazy for making console games at the expense of decent PC titles, this has always reversed after 2-2.5 years and the later years of console life its so drastically behind the PC on power that lots of big titles all head for PC life. This wouldn't be the time to ditch PC as the gaming box and stick yourself with a non upgradable laptop IMHO.


If you do stick with laptop for Lotro + future titles, really just head for whatever you can find gfx wise thats top end of your price limit. Memory is mostly very cheap and very easy to install so save money on other costly upgrades. Even go with a lower end cpu as again its ,well, cheaper and easier to find cpu's for laptop upgrads than gpu.
 
I agree with drunkenmaster, infact I'd go further. I'm looking at a gaming laptop myself but on a budget.

Priority:

Graphics card > CPU > screen res >Hard disk > Ram

Ram is easiest and least troublesome to upgrade later, Graphics card will do most of the work in games and can't be upgraded at all. So spend all your money on getting the graphics card and CPU right at the start. I've put screen res in there as frankly the last thing you need is a gaming laptop with an awful resolution - unless you aim to use it with a monitor for serious gaming sessions! That's what I'll be doing - so I don't really care about the screen res on the laptop.
 
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