Been looking everywhere… There are some options. Gateway from Walmart lol, lenovo ideapad gaming, acer nitro is $20 more but the red decals kill me.
Anyone got any ideas?
Does it have to be laptop?
Desktops get much, much more bang for buck.
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Very mobile right now so yeah it needs to be a laptop unfortunately.
Mobility comes at a price.
And $700 is not the price.
I mean, im sure there are suboptimal ways to crank up stuff you want and im sure someone here will swear they raid 25mythic with a compaq pentium 3 no lag.
But yeah, my statement stands.
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You won’t find an actual gaming laptop under $700.
No even a weaksauce one.
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GTX 1650 laptops are around $700 on Amazon. Don’t get a lot of bells and whistles at that price, you’ll probably get like 8gb of ram and 250gb SSD, but it will run WoW good. That GPU is a bit stronger than the GTX 960 in my HTPC and that runs Shadowlands admirably still.
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You get playable fps in 20+ player castle nathria?
Prices seem to have gone up, my guess it’s due to pandemic and more people staying home.
A year ago I bought a dell D3 for my kid for about 750, and it plays wow just fine. Now the same laptop is about 1100.
Bought my desktop video card 2 years ago for 250, now the same one is 600 
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Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 15IMH05 - 15.6" - Intel Core i5-10300H - GeForce GTX 1650 Ti - 8 GB DDR4 - 256 GB SSD - Windows 10 Home - Gaming Laptop (81Y4001XUS)
That is what I went with. I think it will run good enough. I’ll get another 8 gb of ram eventually.
Go desktop, 1000% better. Laptops will NOT get you anywhere near what a desktop will get you, specially for under $700.
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you’d probably get better performance by using remote play on a mobile device
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Some of you are pretty ridiculous… I played with a i5 3k series with nvidia 950m during bfa and played with 60fps at high settings…
This game isn’t that great looking…
I got my wife a 1650 laptop with an i5 (10th gen) for about $600 at Wal-Mart. 8gb of ram, but I had some spare compatible SO-Dimms on hand. On sale, but they are out there, just gotta look.
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I got my Acer gaming laptop, which outperforms* my desktop, for $600 on newegg.
[Asterisk] - the one definite “BUT…” is that the SSD on the laptop isn’t big enough to house WoW, so I had to run it on the HDD. And that is an absolutely noticeable difference. Until recently I’ve only ever played WoW on a HDD and just accepted it as a thing. So while it has more RAM and a drastically better GPU, the hit is running on a HDD over an SSD.
TL;DR - You can get a kinda mostly good enough gaming laptop for $700 or less, but you’re gonna take a hit somewhere. Leafbeard is right, a FULL gaming laptop… probably not.
That’s probably the abhorrent cryptocurrency miners who run a bajillion of those things all at once to do cryptocurrency crap. (No offense to anyone, but it drives the prices of cards WAY up.)
Switch to playing Classic and you can play on whatever cheap laptop you can find.
Well if you could get a decent laptop for 600 you could spend the other 100 on the ssd.
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I actually just put a SSD on the desktop (the laptop is several years old now, 3 I think? And is usually for travel/if my desktop is being worked on), YYOOO BEST $100 I’VE EVER SPENT!
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Haven’t read the rest of the thread, but what’s the Acer Nitro 5 worth over there? I’ve got one and it plays most games well on moderate settings.
Runs WoW like a dream too.
Best of luck… have in mind…
WoW is looking at around 80GB of space right now. That is close to 50% of your SSD space you got there. Then there’s Windows.
Hope the Laptop is not for anything else my friend.
OR
I hope that laptop allows you to upgrade the SSD to a bigger stick. You will needed.
He needs mobility. Desktops don’t really provide that.