Laptop Advice Request - PC Specialist 17.3" Vortex III

[Cathbad]

I am looking at replacing my current laptop, a five year old Acer 7720g (Intel Core Duo @ 2.00GHz, 4GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon 2300 HD). I play a lot of World of Warcraft, and my current laptop is holding me back performance wise. I would ideally like a laptop that can run World of Warcraft on ultra settings, whilst also allowing me to record my gameplay using Fraps or Playclaw. I don't want to go too wild, but I need a machine that will stand the test of time and not depreciate too quickly.

I have been looking at the 17.3" Vortex III from PC Specialist (http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/vortexIII-17/), but I'm by no means a computer expert, so would appreciate some advice on specs. I have my heart set on the AMD Radeon HD 7970M graphics card, but I'm not too sure which way I should go regarding the processor and hard drive(s). Basically, I want the best processor performance to price ratio (if that makes sense), and if an SSD would improve load times significantly, I would look at paying the extra bit of cash for one of those too.

Hopefully you can give me some advice, because I really am rather clueless when it comes to this sort of thing.


Thanks a lot,

Josh

[Jailbuild]

Laptops are never ideal for gaming, but if that's what you want then go for it, The system you picked out is lacking in some areas, I would change that hard drive, its small and slow I would up the RAM to at least 4Gb, and definitely put in an SSD at least a 120Gb so you can install windows and wow on it, and SSD makes a huge difference to WOW in fact you could put an SSD into your current laptop and see a huge difference. also I would stick with Nvida for the graphics cards, thats just my personal preference. it really depends on how much money you have to play with. if you can spend a little more, up your CPU to the I5 Ivy 2.6, get 4Gb of 1600 RAM, 120Gb SSD and another SATA drive for storage,