Good for you, Dell. Way-to sucker poor MMO addicts out of $4,450. The new Dell XPS M1730 WoW (World of Warcraft) laptop is a complete joke. The technical specs on this monstrosity are very high-end (at the time of this writing). It sports an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 4 Gigabytes of memory, dual NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GS video cards (that’s right, a laptop with SLI video), a 17 inch wide-aspect display, 5.1 channel audio, an option for two SATAII drives in a RAID 0 configuration or a 128 Gigabyte Solid State hard drive (seriously) and a Blue Ray Disc. For the non-technical, this laptop is about as high-end as you can get. Any geek would go into an orgasmic frenzy if they were presented with such a powerful PC – and in laptop form no-less.

What’s laughable, however, is the fact that the game this laptop is marketed for, World of Warcraft, can be played smoothly on a computer that’s 1/20th as powerful as the super, self-aware Dell XPSM1730 WoW edition notebook. On my previous AMD 5000+ based PC, with an 8800GTS and 2 Gigabytes of memory, World of Warcraft played flawlessly on the maximum graphic settings. It’s beyond me why anyone would need a Solid State hard drive for this 4 year old game, much less SLI video. This is a blatant gimmick on Dell and Blizzard’s (the company behind WoW) part to sucker unknowing and/or WoW addicted consumers out of almost $4,500. Shame on you Dell. Shame on you Blizzard.

You can read my totally biased (and slightly less agitated) review of the World of Warcraft HERE.

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