Sub $1000 Asus Laptops

[Greythan]

Curious what folks opinions are on the multi-boxing feasability for these two Asus laptops Best Buy is selling:

Asus G50Vt-X1 ('http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9050279&type=product&id=1218012519873')

Asus G50Vt-X5 ('http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9173262&type=product&id=1218044029168')

I'm researching value laptops as an option to 1) play Wow, 2) play more than one instance of WoW, and/or 3) 5 box.

I list them in order as I'd want a box that could at least accomplish the first two objectives. Stated another way, for $1k I'd be happy if I could, say, triple box if not full out 5 box while travelling, etc.

Any thoughts? I'm a real newb on laptops and gaming.

[suicidesspyder]

This is what i have it works good but im adding 4gb more ram to it but i play 5 copies at 35 fps for main and about 10-15 on slaves.

http://i511.photobucket.com/albums/s356/himynamesisjay/computerspecs.jpg

[Moorea]

I 5 box at ~30fps main 10(set) fps slaves on the laptop screen (1920x1080) of a model similar to

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9172511&st=gateway+laptop&lp=2&type=product&cp=1&id=1218043606827
(P-7805u - mine is p-7811fx - if you want to play on the laptop screen I think 1920x1080 is a must (it's not quite enough, but it's minimal...) I have my maximizer keyclone settings posted in older thread if you want)

[Noids99]

You wil be able to 5 box on both of those, although at times will find yourself paging a fair bit which will cause some stuttering. Stay away from highly populated areas and you'll be fine.l

[Greythan]

Thanks for the feedback so far.

It sort of prompts me to see if others would be willing to post real world results multi-boxing (ideally 5 boxing) on actual laptops.

Moorea raised a good point that I wasn't even considering and that was minimum screen resolution/size necessary to make five boxing even visually playable.

This might be very useful to the community to have a list of laptops that users have confirmed results with and a set of guidelines on key buying criteria for laptop multi-boxing. (I'd propose a sticky as the wiki seems to be only marginally effective, but I digress.)

Thoughts?

[Greythan]

Laptop boxers, post your laptop specs and WoW five box performance. Come on, don't be bashful!

[Jheusse]

Well, the good news, my wife got me a Best Buy ASUS for christmas. It's definitely WoW capable.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9050055&type=product&id=1218012612475

The bad news is I have yet to try and multibox with it. Will advise.

I now have my main box which can 4 box at least through TBC, the lappy, and an older single core box I used to raid with.

I personally wouldn't try to multibox on a laptop on the laptop screen, you're asking for headaches, but connecting to a larger monitor and using a separate keyboard and mouse will work.

With my new wireless router and the laptop I'm angling towards WoWing and eventually multiboxing on the 42" plasma on the living room wall downstairs, it has a PC input or I might do HDMI.

edit: Looking at the specs on those two you listed, they're all right around the specs for mine, generally the tradeoff is bigger screen on yours and 1 GB vid card on mine, cache and memory speed vary.

[Greythan]

See this thread ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=19080') for my personal update.