$2700 and I'd own it. $4500 is laughable. Sure it has video out the whazoo but the rest of the specs are more in line with laptops 1/2 the price. I'm sure that people will enjoy all the "bonus" stuff, but since I already own both CE's and went to BlizzCon (probably a Beta invite there) I think I'll buy a new laptop at 1/2 the price and use the rest to have an artist draw my toon. It's really a shame that they didn't use more common sense.

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Cute LCD stats thing.

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omg omg omg, i SO need one of these...

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Yeah right!

More like, "OMG, I can't believe they make stuff like this sometimes"

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they lost me @ $4,500.

I'd rather take my $4500 and turn it into an HDTV ($2000), custom built machine ($1500-2000), and still have money left over to buy a few cases of beer and a wireless keyboard/mouse combo.

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I agree. I got that email this morning and was REALLY interested, but again at $4500 I just laughed. If the laptop was in the 1500-2000 neighborhood they would have sold one. Like Mad Cow said, I could take $4500, build myself a killer rig and a new TV and still have money left over.

I wonder how many of these Dell will actually sell?

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Dual GeForce 8600M's? That's a bit of overkill to play WoW, don't you think?

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Wow. Doesn't it say it comes with beta keys for the next 5 betas? And an in-game pet. Wow...how are they justifying this price again?

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They lost me at gaming _laptop_

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Wow, just... that price is insane.

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k, the collector's edition pet upgrade is enticing, but which collector's edition are we talking here? I scored the one for BC, but I completely missed out on the one for WoW Vanilla, and while I still plan on nabbing the sucker on ebay someday, it wouldn't do any good for my existing account.

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$4,500

lawl

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Ok the Figureprints thing is pretty cool. But I'll just order one of those when their site is up. The laptop is still not worth $4500.

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That price is ridiculous. I just bought Sony 52" XBR4 LCD for 3200.00 and I still would have a respectable amount of money left over to build a killa rig. I hope Dell reads these posts.
Besides, I don't have any money left after paying for 3 accounts. QQ

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I'm trying to see what stats are in the LCD panel.

And this Blizzard's Beta Club - this link from Engadget (http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/12/04/36984.aspx) says that when you join, you get keys for the next five betas. I'm very interested in that.

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For $4500 it should come with a lifetime subscription to WoW and all expansions for free. That would begin to justify the price.

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I actually just bought one of these (the non-WoW version) - although in the UK it was only £1599 ($3285.15) - far more reasonable :) I got it yesterday and it's... amazing! Highly recommended to WoW players. Mind you, it's a heavy, chunky beast - far more suited to being a desktop replacement than an actual laptop (I'm 6'4" tall - it doesn't fit on *my* lap! :p)

There's the plug and the mini review - I'm loving it :)

JK

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If I was looking at 4500 bucks for a laptop I'd be shopping at sagernotebooks.com. I didn't look at the specs on this Dell but I image the raid, and SLI that sager is giving me for that money is a bit better lol.

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Anyone remember seeing these at Blizzcon? There were prototypes at the Dell booth; should have figured this is what it was going to be...

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