"Multiboxing" on a laptop

[Vantalim]

last year i had to purchase a laptop for someone to use for multiboxing. (i work for a famous royal family - so money is not an issue when they want something)

Ohhh, come on! You can't dangle that little tidbit and then NOT name the famous royal who multiboxes!!!!!

:cursing:

Word!
Heheh. But with all the critique wow gets in media, famous people would probably not want to get dragged into some kind of media drama...

...specially not when playing 5x wow accounts at once will be seen as 5 times worse than just an "ordinary wow addict" ;-)

[keyclone]

i work for a famous royal family - so money is not an issue when they want something

i second the need to know

or at least... can we get a pic of someone multi-boxing in a castle? (that'd be cool)

[Tonuss]

Now I'm wondering if the term "multiboxing" means the same thing to a member of a royal family. For me, it means I control all of the accounts from a single keyboard and mouse. For Prince John Doe, it might mean that he is barking commands to his staff of MMORPG slaves. 8o

[Aarelan]

Brings new meaning to the term "my slave is not responding properly"

[Psybercop]

I'd be more interested in which side they play on.

[Dawnstrider]

I say we keep the Royalty Family name a secret. You think the gold beggars are bad now, imagine what they would be like if word got around that royalty was playing on their server.

As far as Alienware goes, I have had several Alienware computers and have loved them all. My current laptop is about 3 years old and runs on 4gigs of DDR2 and Duo 1.47GB processors. I use it for all my computing needs and can handle 4 wow's before I notice any difference at all in performance. Once I load a fifth Wow, however, I can notice my toons skip a step every now and then but nothing major. Game plays nice on it while 5 boxing. Only thing I cant do is have all 5 toons hearth to Dalaran at the same time. But other than that I always get good Frame rates and low latency. I have never tried another brand of computer since Alienware was the first computer I ever bought and have not ever had a reason to change brands. Sure they are more money, but you get what you pay for. IMO.

[Greythan]

I bought a Gateway at Best Buy (P-7805U) some time ago and I run 5 just fine. Yes, I have most graphics turned way down. Also, I can not run all 5 toons in Dalaran. However, I really don't ever need to run all three in Dal.

[Ñightsham]

I myself run a Macbook Pro for multiboxing when i'm travelling - depending on foreign internet connection speeds i can get a playable game running between 3-5 accounts at once.

How do you setup M/B'ng on a Macbook?

I have a MacBook Pro w/4Gb and am interested in doing so.

[Toned]

I use an HP pavillion dv7. Has 6gigs of ram, 2.0ghz quadcore, ati hd 4650... Works great for 5 :P

[suicidesspyder]

Dell xps m1530 dual core 4gb memory. 4 accounts no problem 5th adds a litte strain no overheating tho since i have it levitated off the surface so air flow gets to bottom of it. Lets see it lags in av but i can still play in a turtle. I can run in every majoy city no problem but dalagaran. Talk about 1fps.

It takes 5-10 mins to go from vh portal from wg to horde portals to cities lol. So i bought a new computer for wow this one now does surfing and the occasional log on a 6th account to do banking lol. Thank god gf plays to i got banker toon now without me paying an extra 15 a month.