Warcraft on surface pro 9? (With\without eGPU)

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Hello all.

Been trying to explore this possibility:

I want to get the Surface pro 9 with 32 gb RAM i7 (basically the best surface pro out there right now) as my main computer so that I can have a “home” config (primarily meaning by docking it to a egpu unit) and a “travel” config (the computer by itself). But I want to make sure I’m getting the right type of thing, so I’m here asking for the advice if the wow community.

I like the idea of only having ONE computer that I can overpower at home, but still get desired functionality albeit less graphical power on the go with an easy swap between configs (plugin\pull single cord, done). I’ve tried the “2 computers\1 for home\1 for travel” and it doesn’t work for my life style. And I know other true laptops would work and likely for cheaper, but I really like how the surface pro checks the boxes for what I want while traveling, namely:

  • how it is as thin as any tablet even with keyboard.
  • and that they keyboard is detachable.
  • touch screen when I’m just chilling with YouTube.
    I’m not opposed to other true tablet-formed computers, I just don’t know of any with the power and ease of functionality \ expandability of the Surface Pro.

I’m wondering the following:

  1. How would wow perform in my Home config?
  2. How would wow perform in my travel config?
  3. Would lifetime of the computer be seriously impacted? Note that 80+% of the time it would be in my home config status, so video card and monitor use would both be external.
  4. Are there other tablet-formed, easily traveled, cheaper, egpu-ready computers that I could use instead that would be comparable to points 1 & 2? I only know what I know.

Thank you!

In case someone has the same question in the future and finds this thread:
Current wow expac: dragon flight 2024
Latest surface pro: surface pro 9

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Well, if there’s enough storage, possibly. It looks like the rest of the specs are ok. But WoW plus Battle.net is more than 100GB, so the 256 GB version would be the smallest one that would probably work.

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Since posting, I’ve seen a video where someone actually installed WOW on an external SSD to mitigate the storage storage issue you rightly brought up. There’s a work -around, so that’s good, and it’s good to hear your thoughts that it should be good to go.

It’s just such an investment with no ctrl-z in place, so while I’ll likely take the plunge at some point, it’s still a scary proposition (especially since money isn’t quite growing on trees at the moment for me, sadly).

Thank you!

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I would not recommend doing that, especially if connecting through a USB dock. You’ll be experiencing delays from USB and the motherboard, vs just the motherboard. I constantly see people struggling with intermittent freezing when using external storage for games (not just WoW).

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youtube(dot)com/watch?v=FwTqy59bNxk

wow Running on a surface Pro 9, Not sure if it helps or not.

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It will run, but it will also likely overheat. Those thin things aren’t mean for long gaming sessions.

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