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Offline idolminds

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Buy the new official WoW laptop
« on: Tuesday, December 04, 2007, 12:15:53 PM »
For $5,000?

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A legendary alliance between DellTM  and Blizzard has resulted in a one-of-a-kind notebook designed to deliver the ultimate World of Warcraft®  experience

    * 17" HD widescreen notebook complete with World of Warcraft backpack
    * Illuminated speaker grills and faction specific Honor Badges
    * Back-lit keyboard stays awake as long as you can
    * Track your stats with the world's first built-in notebook Logitech®  GamePanelTM  LCD
    * Enhanced graphics with NVIDIA®  SLITM  technology and AGEIA PhysXTM  Mobile TechnologyTM
    * Pre-loaded with World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade and all major game patches
    * Golden Ticket for a custom FigurePrintTM  of your actual in-game World of Warcraft character with your actual armor and weapons
    * World of Warcraft Beta Club Key Card with a key to future World of Warcraft beta tests
    * World of Warcraft and The Burning Crusade Collector's Edition Account Upgrade Certificates
    * Exclusive desktop background artwork and screensavers
    * Additional loot like a behind the scenes DVD, soundtrack, Warcraft novels, strategy guides, trading cards, etc
Ok, the Figureprint and collectors editions all preinstalled is kinda neat. But can I ask why the hell they would include a PhysX card in the thing when WoW has no physics to speak of? Or hell, any game?

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Re: Buy the new official WoW laptop
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday, December 04, 2007, 12:42:37 PM »
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A legendary alliance between DellTM  and Blizzard has resulted in a one-of-a-kind notebook designed to deliver the ultimate World of Warcraft®  experience

To be fair, that isn't all that hard.

4,499 for this shit? Well that's just insane. Stuff like this gives PC gaming a bad name.



At least make it look awesome you fools.

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Re: Buy the new official WoW laptop
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday, December 04, 2007, 01:00:27 PM »
Well the Dell XPS M1730 fully loaded is approximately $3500 with full upgrades.

I'm assuming that this laptop is basically the M1730 fully loaded with just some detailing and stuff.  Is it worth the additional price?  Probably now.

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Re: Buy the new official WoW laptop
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday, December 04, 2007, 01:37:02 PM »
Ahh yes. I was forgetting how expensive laptops are, especially branded ones.

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Re: Buy the new official WoW laptop
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday, December 05, 2007, 02:39:52 AM »
I really dont think it looks all that cool. I was hoping it would have a more stylistic colorful motif on it kinda like the games visuals, but its just another silver and black looking laptop, big deal.

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Re: Buy the new official WoW laptop
« Reply #5 on: Thursday, December 06, 2007, 02:01:00 PM »
If I had $5k to burn i'd hit it
Suck it, Pugnate.

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Re: Buy the new official WoW laptop
« Reply #6 on: Thursday, December 06, 2007, 03:48:32 PM »
If I had $5k to burn i'd burn it

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Re: Buy the new official WoW laptop
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 04:33:12 AM »
I guess one of the perks for working for dell is I got to see all the goodies you get with it. pretty neat collector's stuff. They wouldn't let me near the laptop itself tho....bastards.....anyways if you get a hardon for wow and are in need of a spiffy new laptop...other than fanboys though I don't know how many people would enjoy the package.