Dunno about CoH and/or WoW but I got my laddie a laptop for his Xmas, Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz, 2Gb Ram, 120Gb HDD for £341 from Tesco direct. It has an on-board intel gfx chip and I haven't tried any games on it at all but it was the cheapest 2GB Core 2 Duo I could find.
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Have a look about for laptops that have HD-DVD drives in, you can usually get them as a bit of a bargain due to having 'obselete' tech inside.
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I'd also like to be able to run CoH (and another MMO (starts with a W and ends with a W... middle letter is O)) on the laptop
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WoW isn't too hard, it has fairly poor specs. Resolution won't be an issue, it's frame rate. Most laptops have sucky graphics systems. My other half is currently using a laptop at about the price you're talking about for WoW and if she gets better than 10fps she's lucky. However, it dpeneds a lot of the graphics adapter.
CoH... you're on pot luck with that one. You may be able to find a setting which gets it to run okay, or you might not. You will probably have poor frame rate, but maybe not. We had an old laptop that ran CoH brilliantly, as long as you turned shadows off. 
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Need to get a laptop for work, work is web design and some writing (content generation), as the work doesn't subsidise the purchase I have to use my own money, which means I'm a bit limited on cash.
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Max I want to spend is £350, I can already see some laptops that are cheaper than this, so thats not at issue. I'd also like to be able to run CoH (and another MMO (starts with a W and ends with a W... middle letter is O)) on the laptop, it doesn't have to have a huge resolution and if I want to run TFs I'll be using my home PC but being able to check the AH from places other than my room would be nice.
Must be Windows (I can always put a 'nix flavour on later, but it has to work out of the box.)
Must run Office (but if its windows that okay
Must run DW MX
Must Run apache (so I can use a test server)
Must run CoH
Must cost no more than £350 (including VAT)
Any suggestions greatly appreciated. (Really can't spend more cash so suggesting I spend more is not reality.)