Hey, I've been playing World Of Warcraft for about 4 months now on my home PC which is extremely outdated. I am looking for a reasonably priced laptop (under $2000) to continue playing the game. At the moment, I have choppy gameplay and extremely high latency (8,000+ ms) which makes pvp, grouping and raiding relatively impossible. I've been looking at Dell, Alienware, WidowPc, and Cyberpower but I am not sure which will aloow for best gameplay and which is the most up to date hardware. Please, give me a suggestion with which company or even model I should consider. I could go above $2000 but $2400 is the max I'm willing to spend. Please help!

You know you could get a desktop that would perform exceptionally well for WoW and a good laptop for productivity both for under $2000 combined, right? Are you that married to the idea of WoW on a laptop? "How many squirrels had to die to make you look fly?!"

Well the thing is I am going to college in the fall and a desktop and laptop in a dorm would not be too space practical. I was thinking about getting a laptop and dockingstation to increase battery life and internet speed connection. But if you have any interesting ideas about how to cope with the lack of space in a dorm, let me know.

Would there be a desk in your dorm room? Would you primarily use the laptop on the desk? A tower placed on a stand right next to the desk would add no more than 10-12" to the overall footprint of the desk. A flat panel monitor takes up little space on the desk. You can be creative with speaker placement, get a monitor with built-in speakers, or use headphones. A keyboard tray mounted under the top of the desk will keep the keyboard out of the way, etc. What I'm getting at is...there are ways to work around it.

Very true and I am beginning to reconsider my first ideas. If there is a specific brand or model you could recommend.. that would be a great help because I know relatively little about computer specs and what is better than what. Direction in both laptop and pcs would be a great help. Thanks.

Here's what I'd do these days. 1. Get/build a nice desktop machine with Windows XP Media Center Edition. Make sure it has a TV tuner in it (radio on the tuner card if you listen to radio). Get good speakers and a big monitor. With that one device, you have a high quality stereo that can play MP3's, CD's, whatever. You have a TV. You also have a DVR since this is MCE. You also have a DVD player. On top of all this, with the right other hardware, you have a gaming machine. Want space saving? Now you have no stereo to take, no tv, etc. 2. Get a laptop based specifically for productivity in mind. Recommended brands would be Dell, Toshiba, HP, or Sony. Recommend at least 1 gig of RAM, a Pentium Mobile with Centrino. But it depends on what kind of stuff you need to do workwise in college. "How many squirrels had to die to make you look fly?!"

1. To play world of warcraft well u need at least 1 gig of RAM and dedicated graphics. Laptops are never recommended for games it just dont work. 2. Dont buy Dell. You may save a couple of bucks but it aint worth it... prolly die and you will never see it again cause the warranty is in india or something like that... For a desktop i would recommend going to the local computer store and talking to the sales person for a while... they may con u into a couple of upgrades u dont need but it will still be better than premade machines.