Wow looks damn nice when on full settings! Fact! Although this laptop should be aimed more at UT3 gamers with the AGEIA card in. Thats its best selling point. 

My poor old inspiron 9400 is suffering with a nvidia 7900gs for crysis and ut3 :-( 

Wow runs damn nice though with all settings turned up at 1920x1200

More than "low quality" they are low texture res - more precisely, the cartoony style of the graphics requires less texture/polygons than a more "realistic" (e.g. Lotro) style of graphics.

On the subject, the laptop is obviously overkill for WoW, but the extra "oooomph" may be used in other more demanding games.

Would I buy this?

Hell no...

Even if I wanted a top of the line gaming laptop, I'd buy a WoW themed one only if I was a fan, and, as the article said, a WoW fan Is more than likely to already have a good part of the goodies (btw, do they include the art book that came with the CE? IMO it was the best thing in the package).

My social life is as interesting as a magician on the radio (I'm on a gap year and all my friends have gone to uni) and as a result, I refuse to try WOW simply because joining the socially inept in an online world, rather than the real world, just doesn't really do it for me.

To cd, I have to ask, who on earth wants to study graphics? I want to fire up Crysis on my big-ass widescreen and be wow'ed (snigger) all the way through.

actually the foliage is not even coded by blizzard, they buy the trees grass snow and all the plants. Anyone can have plants like them,. in fact ut3 uses the same stuff. NIce job 3rd party company, if you like them you can have them too.

Yet I note with interest the appearance of a mobile PhysX PPU.
That, at least, is a good thing for future gamers.

There are 2.9 times as many pixels in 1920x1200 as there are in 1024x768, so you're going to need something a bit more powerful than a 6200. Flagship graphics cards for laptops are often substantially detuned compared to their desktop counterparts too.

Perhaps a hint at a WoW 2 to be released in the near future?.
Or a hint at the large number of people making a bundle selling WoW characters?

run it at 1920x1200, a 7900 gtx will have some trouble with 4x mutlisample and all settings on high.

but who says anyone would buy it just to play WoW?




The graphics actually are not low quality.

yes Blizzard have done an excellent job with scalabilty so u can get decent framerates on some extremely old graphics architectures.

But crank those graphics up and crank the resolution up, spell effects, grass clutter density etc then go somewhere like shatt or anywhere where there is alot on screen (alot of characters with spells going on for example) now watch those frames drop like a ton of bricks. (below 30fps) 

The graphics are actually very very well done if you study them. Kudo's to the 3d artists at blizzard they did a top job.

Considering that you can get a solid 30 fps @ 768 x 1024 in WOW with a measly GeForce 6200, these notebooks are utterly gratuitous.