Dell's cashing in on WoW's popularity with this rather cheesy - yet almost alluring (oh dear, my WoW-love is clearly getting the better of me) - XPS gaming laptop. Comes in both Horde and Alliance flavours. 
Actually that's quite awful, isn't it.
The starting price (starting price) is $4,500. Oh em eff gee. Is it made of Khorium?! Comes at basic with a dual core, two gig of memory, Vista (/spit) and a 160GB of drive. Which is, funnily enough, exactly what's in my year-old, lightweight Sony Vaio, which is probably retailing now at exactly half the price (except for the Vista bit, I'm not entirely mad).
Rather scarily, Dell also isn't offering up any graphics card choice that I can see. That rings alarm bells...
To be fair to Dell, I'm sure that WoW sticker alone costs $2000.
Posted by: bob_d | December 04, 2007 at 18:05
It could really be worse IMO, the chipped metal shield style is kinda cool. But yes, over priced and shitty overall.
I wouldn't worry about the graphics card though, WoW really really will run on just about anything, 3dfx Voodoo and up. :)
Posted by: Pete | December 04, 2007 at 18:15
Well true, but if Dell are flogging a nearly-five-grand gaming laptop, you'd usually want to know what the graphics card is, I think!
Posted by: Alice | December 05, 2007 at 05:02
Actually they do say: "512MB Dual NVIDIA® GeForce® 8700M GT with NVIDIA® SLI®" (under "also includes," which isn't the prominence you would expect the graphics card to have for a gaming rig).
Posted by: bob_d | December 05, 2007 at 20:19
You have better eyesight than I, my friend. Nicely found..
Posted by: Alice | December 05, 2007 at 20:58