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Cryptoengineer wrote:
> On Apr 11, 7:41 pm, t....@thsu.org wrote:
>> On Apr 11, 6:00 pm, Cryptoengineer <pete...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The Keeper Of The Funds has declared that I can buy myself a personal
>>> laptop, up to around $1k.
>> To be blunt, why do you want a laptop?
>>
>> I have played WoW on my laptop, and it sucks compared to playing it on
>> my desktop. Trackpads are awful substitutes for mice, laptop keyboards
>> are poor substitutes for real keyboards (especially since I'm used to
>> mechanical keyboards), and even a 17" monitor pales in comparison to
>> my 19" & 22" dual monitor layout.
>>
>> In addition, I own a desktop, a laptop, and an iPad. I use both my
>> desktop and iPad daily, but I rarely use my laptop, not since
>> obtaining the iPad. My laptop usage went from 3-4 days a week (mainly
>> as a living room computer) down to 1-2 days a month, post iPad.
>>
>> That is, the odd man out is my laptop. I don't even bring it with me
>> on vacation anymore. I just bring my iPad and extra SD cards for my
>> camera.
> 
> It's not an unreasonable question. I have a large house, and am
> regaining the use of my old office after a couple of years (we were
> using that end of the house to put up some of my wife's relatives - a
> family of 7 - while they got back on their feet). During that time,
> I've kept my desktop in the dining room. Now I'm moving back up, but I
> don't want to spend most of each evening up in the office - its quite
> distant from the rest of the family. So I'd like to have something
> portable I can use downstairs.
> 
> For raids, and perhaps for instances, sure, I'll go back upstairs to
> the desktop. But for more casual solo play, the laptop lets me WoW and
> be with the rest of the family.
> 
> I'm aware of the keyboard/mouse issue. I've used USB trackballs in the
> past in that situation.
> 
> pt


Your very much like me then.  I don't mind the laptop too much if just 
questing, farming, solo, etc so I can be in the living room with the 
wife if she's reading a book, or watching one of her shows, so I'm not 
off in my office and at opposite ends of the house.  Id never dream of 
raids or instances on it as it sucks.  It's really old.  However, if 
that's all you plan to do on it, You don't need anything powerfully 
overboard.  If I can play on my 5 year old, Pentium M 1.8ghz, on board 
graphic card (Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900) and 2 gigs of RAM, 
practically anything would be better...lmao

In fact, I like when she reads, as I then hook up the laptop to the 50" 
LCD in the living room and play   Framerates suck bad though on that 
PC..  :)