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faseman
Profile Joined April 2009
Australia215 Posts
May 01 2009 00:47 GMT
#41
WoW is pretty much all about CPU speed. It's such an old shitty engine. The Gateway® P-7805u FX Edition, like someone else linked, seems like a pretty sweet deal to me. Although it doesn't meet some of the requirements.

My brother played WoW at 60fps (most places) with a 9600gt on some terrible mac. Remember the graphics card isn't important, It's all about the CPU clocks!
mahnini
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
United States6862 Posts
May 01 2009 00:55 GMT
#42
On May 01 2009 07:17 Kentor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 01 2009 07:12 IzzyCraft wrote:
On May 01 2009 07:00 Kentor wrote:
i can't believe the new trends in resolution. stupid 16 : 9... they're cutting even more vertical pixels now.

Well the logic is that It's Television and Movie format so why not keep it consistent.

Maybe website layout will change to be more horizontal in the future with a omni-direction scroll ball instead of a up and down easy left to right impossibly annoying scroll wheel.


No, the logic is because it's cheaper to produce those stupid resolutions since they keep cutting off pixels and consumers are so dumb, they're like, "OHHH WIDESCREENS SO GUD!"

WELL NO! It's not good. In fact, it sucks. I want more space, especially vertical space, to do stuff on my computer. God dammit.

---

The Thinkpad W500 is a little over 6 pounds but maybe it could be more with a bigger battery... not so sure. And you can find it within your budget on eBay.

i find widescreen to help more with productivity with multiple apps. unless you're reading off your computer or something. no one i know stacks apps on top of each other.

i have 16:10 it's totally fine
the world's a playground. you know that when you're a kid, but somewhere along the way everyone forgets it.
Kentor *
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5784 Posts
May 01 2009 04:41 GMT
#43
On May 01 2009 09:55 mahnini wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 01 2009 07:17 Kentor wrote:
On May 01 2009 07:12 IzzyCraft wrote:
On May 01 2009 07:00 Kentor wrote:
i can't believe the new trends in resolution. stupid 16 : 9... they're cutting even more vertical pixels now.

Well the logic is that It's Television and Movie format so why not keep it consistent.

Maybe website layout will change to be more horizontal in the future with a omni-direction scroll ball instead of a up and down easy left to right impossibly annoying scroll wheel.


No, the logic is because it's cheaper to produce those stupid resolutions since they keep cutting off pixels and consumers are so dumb, they're like, "OHHH WIDESCREENS SO GUD!"

WELL NO! It's not good. In fact, it sucks. I want more space, especially vertical space, to do stuff on my computer. God dammit.

---

The Thinkpad W500 is a little over 6 pounds but maybe it could be more with a bigger battery... not so sure. And you can find it within your budget on eBay.

i find widescreen to help more with productivity with multiple apps. unless you're reading off your computer or something. no one i know stacks apps on top of each other.

i have 16:10 it's totally fine

Yeah it's fine only above 1680x1050. Anything under has terrible vertical res. But I'm still complaining about stupid 16: 9 when 16:10 has the same horizontal and more vertical...
DrTJEckleburg
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1080 Posts
May 01 2009 05:08 GMT
#44
few of my friends have picked up the costco laptop @ $900 and they have run WOW/BF2 at highest settings with great FPS.
Im pretty good at whistling with my hands, especially when Im holding a whistle.
haduken
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia8267 Posts
May 01 2009 11:51 GMT
#45
If you are going to get something that big why not just build yourself a desktop?
i don't get the point of desktop replacement laptops.
Rillanon.au
floor exercise
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Canada5847 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-01 12:23:10
May 01 2009 12:20 GMT
#46
On May 01 2009 20:51 haduken wrote:
If you are going to get something that big why not just build yourself a desktop?
i don't get the point of desktop replacement laptops.

I pretty much say this every time someone wants a gaming laptop. They get uncomfortably warm, you end up never wanting to bring them anywhere anyway, most people destroy their own batteries by using it plugged in without storing them somewhere, They are noisy thanks to the poor ventilation, they are heavy as shit. 8 lbs sucks dick when you are carrying other things as well. And all that for less performance than a desktop you could have bought for half the price gives you. Not to mention the comfort and wrist pain you save yourself using a real keyboard and a real monitor.

Also consider how hard they are to fix or upgrade on your own. Desktop supremacy

Or what, you're going to play wow in public? Please don't do this. I'm sure everyone in college here can tell you the type of person who does that.

Not to mention Nony is being an enabler here getting a laptop that can run a horrible soul stealing game
Timangi99
Profile Joined November 2008
Sweden73 Posts
May 01 2009 12:33 GMT
#47
On May 01 2009 05:12 zulu_nation8 wrote:
do you believe sartre is a good philosopher (and) dreyfus destroyed sartre's reputation unfairly or do you agree that sartre's reputation should be constantly diminishing and if so, briefly, why?


Sartre is a very good philosopher, but I do believe that de Beauvoir has more convincing ethics. Sartre simply gets stuck inside his own consciousness and cannot give any directions as to where we should head.
abcdefghiklmNEVERGONNAGIVEYOUUPopqrstuvwxyz
errol1001
Profile Joined April 2008
454 Posts
May 01 2009 12:40 GMT
#48
On May 01 2009 13:41 Kentor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 01 2009 09:55 mahnini wrote:
On May 01 2009 07:17 Kentor wrote:
On May 01 2009 07:12 IzzyCraft wrote:
On May 01 2009 07:00 Kentor wrote:
i can't believe the new trends in resolution. stupid 16 : 9... they're cutting even more vertical pixels now.

Well the logic is that It's Television and Movie format so why not keep it consistent.

Maybe website layout will change to be more horizontal in the future with a omni-direction scroll ball instead of a up and down easy left to right impossibly annoying scroll wheel.


No, the logic is because it's cheaper to produce those stupid resolutions since they keep cutting off pixels and consumers are so dumb, they're like, "OHHH WIDESCREENS SO GUD!"

WELL NO! It's not good. In fact, it sucks. I want more space, especially vertical space, to do stuff on my computer. God dammit.

---

The Thinkpad W500 is a little over 6 pounds but maybe it could be more with a bigger battery... not so sure. And you can find it within your budget on eBay.

i find widescreen to help more with productivity with multiple apps. unless you're reading off your computer or something. no one i know stacks apps on top of each other.

i have 16:10 it's totally fine

Yeah it's fine only above 1680x1050. Anything under has terrible vertical res. But I'm still complaining about stupid 16: 9 when 16:10 has the same horizontal and more vertical...


I agree, this is stupid. In fact, I think the ideal Laptop would be the SquareTop(c), with a resolution of 1920x1920.


All I have to say is, question whether you really need a humongous laptop. If you're going to be gaming and/or watching movies all over the place, I guess I can see it. But if you're mostly going to be set up in one place, you might want to get a smaller laptop (but still a powerful laptop), and use a docking station/real monitor/keyboard.

If you want the big screen on a laptop though, also watch for whether the screen in question is TN or IPS. Cheap screens are TN, and have viewing angles of 160 degrees. I doubt anyone would recommend a TN screen for watching HD movies, so be careful on that..
Ilvy
Profile Joined September 2002
Germany2445 Posts
May 01 2009 12:54 GMT
#49
Well i play WoW on my Mac powerbook with 60 fps with Ventrilo, Firefox, IrC and msn open. My sons Dell laptop was not able to do that even they said it should be fine, the problem was mostly overheating so it started to lag or to switch off. the 17´´ got 1920x1200 but i am not sure if you want to invest that much money
haduken
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia8267 Posts
May 01 2009 13:29 GMT
#50
^ Well, it's kinda unfair to compare a mac with a dell >.<
Rillanon.au
IzzyCraft
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4487 Posts
May 01 2009 16:46 GMT
#51
maybe it's a really nice expensive dell
I have ass for brains so,
even when I shit I'm droping knowledge.
panzer
Profile Joined May 2009
93 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-02 02:29:20
May 02 2009 02:25 GMT
#52
from personal experience i would recommend a hp 8710w (the t9xxx and quadro 3600m version), great specs, very profesional looking design (not a toy).

or a thinkpad t61p / w500
빈 수레가 요란하다
Vequeth
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United Kingdom1116 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-02 11:08:45
May 02 2009 11:07 GMT
#53
if you are going for a high end laptop id strongly advise not going SLI in a laptop, just take a look at laptopvideo2go.com to see the problems they cause. on my dell xps m1730 much more trouble than its worth.

good luck!

edit: if you are taking this thing to class make sure you check the weight on some of these beasts, the top end are 'desktop replacements' and thus really heavy.
Aspiring British Caster / Masters Protoss
Boonbag
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
France3318 Posts
May 02 2009 13:07 GMT
#54
lol wtf who plays wow anymore
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