Dell offers special edition World of Warcraft laptop (for a small fortune)

Well, for that much money, I can buy a gun and ensure that won't happen either... with change left over not only for your recovery operation, but a good bottle of booze afterward to celebrate too.

And it'll all be done Dick Cheney "hunting accident" style. ;D

You pretty much already did that when you created that avatar.

Marty wins.

figureprints.com

Not available until December 11th...which unfortunately for them will mean they'll probably miss the Christmas retail season. I can't imagine they'll be able to turn them around too quickly. Shame, they look awesome too, but I read somewhere they'll be $100+.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUvqT4M1zNI

that's kind of what I thought, although it's too bad they're WoW only. If I could get my FFXI character I'd pay $100 for that.

HOW I MINE FOR FISH

"really work over" should be "really worth over"

This is what happens when you post on Joystiq when you should be doing your job.

I'm not really sure why you would want XP on a machine that obviously has the horsepower to run Vista.

I really don't know what people have against Vista, it is far more of a stable and powerful OS than XP. If it's because people think it's a resource hog, XP was as well compared to Windows 98SE.

I never hear anyone complain that new games require more RAM, faster CPUs, beefier GPUs and bigger HDDs to run.

IIRC, that deal only applies to business laptops (and this obviously isn't a business laptop), and I don't think you get any amount of money off the final price of the machine in doing so.

@Spartacus

Just have to say that I like that new avatar of yours.

XP is faster than Vista, and according to benchmark tests, XP SP3 beta makes XP twice as fast as Vista SP1 beta.

What does Vista give you over XP besides a pretty interface and DirectX 10? What is Vista's "killer app?"

Thanks Vid. I used Paint... On VISTA!

Zertoss,

-Better 64 bit support
-Stronger search functionality
-Better security
-More stable
-Integrated media streaming capabilities
-Sidebar and other features and functionality

Windows 98 is faster than XP and Mechwarrior 2 runs faster than Crysis on my machine as well... Fact of the matter is, Vista is the new default OS and will eventually have more support, drivers and SP's than XP. I remember when XP launched, die hards were against it due to those same factors, but soon 98SE was losing support and now it is all but dead. While XP is still a viable OS for the time being, buying a new PC at this point with XP installed is pretty much guaranteeing yourself an added cost to upgrade in the near future.

Vista is future proof, XP is not. Simple as that.

Buying a brand new PC at any point is guaranteeing an added cost to upgrade, no matter what you get. You'll always need more RAM, or a better video card, or a larger hard drive, or a new OS.

So why not get a PC with hardware and software that is good now instead of having to wait for it to be good at some arbitrary point in the future that may or may not arrive?

True Zertoss, I can't argue with that sentiment (but I will). It is not a question of if Vista will be better than XP, but when. XP is better than 98SE, but many people didn't think so when it launched. No one would argue now that 98 was better than 95, but 98 ran slower than 95. NO OS HAS EVER COME OUT THAT RUNS FASTER AND WITH LESS OVERHEAD THAN ITS PREDACESSOR. However functionality and overall productivity makes up for that. In this regard, Vista runs circles around XP. The fact that it takes .01 seconds longer to boot up Photoshop or 3 seconds longer to encode an MP4 file doesn't really make a difference to the end user when the OS is more automated, has more features, is more stable and ultimately has greater support.

Again, if you were really worried about the least amount of background applications and processes taking place at any given moment resulting in your programs loading in the absolute fastest time possible, you'd still be running Windows 98SE. But you don't because XP has the drivers, the applications and the support as well as much more robust feature set. The same is (or will be soon) true of Vista. By purchasing a new computer and requesting the last generation OS, you're asking for issues in the very near future.

Only enthusiasts keep old software or drivers for "optimum speeds". For most users, the newest drivers and software versions offer the most benefit for obvious reasons- compatability and usability.