Getting a gaming laptop for 5-boxing

[Kedash00]

my strong advice is to avoid buying a laptop to multiplay with, i know it may sounds negative but i went down this road and i ended up with a hardcore rig with no regrets.

you cant get better than a base unit setup.

my opinion anyway, the amount you spend on a laptop you can really get a very impressive system built.

i agree, if you aren't going to need it to be mobile i would definately get a desktop, you will get a really good one for your price range, monitor and all included.

If you can make your own and put it together go to newegg.com and just build it, it's much cheaper.

[Clone]

Id reccomend just buying a bog standard laptop that can handle 1 copy of wow incase u ever need to play on the move. Then a bog standard quad core desktop. With a nice overclock on the desktop you will manage 5 wows easy. Laptops just arent practical for multiboxing. Yes there are gaming laptops out there that you could multi box on easily. But I cant see any situation where Id specifically want to multibox on the laptop rather than a desktop. Even if I was going to a friends, Id sooner take my desktop round there.

[Noids]

Up until about 6 months ago I had played WoW exclusively on a laptop both single and multi boxed. The reason I got the lappy was that it was a perk from work basically and they let me configure a Dell XPS M1710. Initially it had 2GB RAM, 7200RPM HDD Nvidia 7950 512MB video and centrino 7400 2GHz dual core CPU.

This served me fine multiboxing all through TBC although areas where there were lots of details to load such as AV or Shatt, it would slow to single figure FPS. As such, when I got my team to 80, I bought my new desktop with SSDs, i7, 12GB RAM and GTX 295. The difference in performance is night and day obviously.

If you need a laptop I would have no problems selecting one for gaming, but as the above comments have mentioned, it will not be a proposition on batteries and it will likely be a big, heavy, hot machine. If you are happy with this then by all means laptop it up. The above configs should be fine, although as mentioned, more RAM and an intel SSD HDD would be very worthwhile upgrades although possibly not in your budget.

The video RAM of 1GB should be fine, but a mobile 4650 is not a particularly strong chip and if you were able to find something with a 4870 or a mobile 280GTX that would probably be ideal. It has been a while since I have shopped for laptops so I don't know if you could find a config like this in your price range, but they would be my recommendations. I would prioritise the upgrdes as RAM, then SSD, then GFX.

Cheers