Laptop suggestion

[delafoo]

While I save up for my Monster rig, I'm looking for a budget laptop that can 1 box ( ;p ) wow in all areas well... this will get me by as I get parts for the rig I'll be building as my current laptops usually have framerates so low it logs me out.

budget 500-1000. I've seen a few acceptable ones on newegg n ebay.

Thanks!

[alcattle]

This Toshiba for $800 looks decent. Best graphics they had listed, but not up on every chipset

http://http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114653

[jak3676]

I bought an old gateway laptop for gaming years ago. Paid like $800 and it came with a moderate Core2Duo, 2GB of RAM a nice 17" WUXGA screen and a go 7900gs. It played WoW with all settings maxed at 1900x1200 and frame rates in the mid 20's. I did all my raiding on this lapton throughout TBC. When WOLK came out and they extended the draw distance again, it started to show it's age. In order to keep frame rates above 25 I had to move a lot of settings to 1/2. I've since then hooked it up to an external 19" (1440x900) resolution. On that monitor I can turn gfx settings up to 3/4 and still get similar performance as I did at 1900x1200 and 1/2 settings.

I toss this out there because the 7900gs was a nice GPU at the time, but it was outclassed years ago. For single boxing laptop performance, you will be most impacted by your video card and the resolution you are running at. I'd suggest the chat at Tom's hardware is a pretty good rough comparison of graphics cards. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-graphics-card,2362-6.html You'll see the go 7900gs is like 16 steps down on th chart - at the same level as the mobility 3650.

It would be nice if you could get something higher up on the carts like the mobility 3850 or go8800M. Top of the line for mobilt graphics is the mobility 3870 or the 260M. Those are right up there with my desktop 9600GSO card - it can play at 1900x1200 with all settings maxed (except shadows) and still gets ~30FPS in raids.