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- drewhenson, on 10/11/2007, -1/+422 answers:
1. Magic.
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2. No. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+40Quad core chips in laptops??? I think they need to get some longer lasting BATTERIES first.
- 11arrows, on 10/11/2007, -0/+32Man my laptop gets so hot as it is that you can't even set it on your lap. I wonder how they are gonna cool these thing.
- ZaNkY, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17My first thought would be "hey! Now I have something to keep me warm during the winter!"
Then I realized that Winter better be less than 5 minutes long......
Seriously, that's some mean hardware but the battery can't be much longer than an hour on load. Why the hell would you buy this laptop if it wasn't to play Crysis or some other Dx10 game? You better get used to walls if you get one..... - idonthack, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13@skyshock21
Laptops like this aren't meant to be used on a battery. They are really designed to be used like a portable desktop. - Hazardc, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13It's like the jack of all trades and master of none
Oh look it's a laptop, but the battery lasts 20 minutes!
you can use it on your lap, if you're wearing a fireproof suit
It has all the power of a desktop, except the expandability
It can play all the games my gaming computer can, for the next 6 months, on a 15" screen, with a 5400 rpm hard drive
i love my 700m which is about a year and a half old now... i just want longer battery life.
Some people always wonder why i always have my laptop with me, and i say, that's why i bought the SMALL one you made fun of, to make it convenient to take my computer with me everywhere.... that's the purpose of a portable computer... right? - goat2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10thermanite huh
- sonofagunn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Just long enough to move from the living room to your bedroom before you plug it in again.
- ohmar, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Probably doesnt even include a battery and they just assume that you will plug it in.
- z00k, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9Blah I hate hearing the fan... They are going to have to cool those things down someway without pissing people off about the fans..
Big fan of "Silent PC's" - DrNil8tor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5@goat2
thermanite is what happens when you think you are smarter then the spell checker... - robbh66, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5original material:
http://www.techwarelabs.com/community/showthread.php?p=64711#post64711 - sinembarg0, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5@z00k
Nice pun :-) - Sayde, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Make laptops "cool" first without putting out so much heat, then work on a quad core.
- Joga5000, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3A notebook like this is a desktop-replacement notebook - it is not designed to run off a battery for long or to sit on your lap. It is meant to be a (relatively) easy to transport desktop, so you could say, have a powerful PC that you could take to work and back home every day, or (for PC gamers like me), easily take it to a LAN party without having to drag your tower/monitor/keyboard/etc. everywhere.
I'm actually in the market for one of these - I go to college out of state and it's a pain (and a risk) shipping my gaming desktop back and forth - the solution: a desktop-replacement notebook. Quad-core in a laptop is awesome - lappy's are getting closer to desktop performance, but in a more transportation-friendly form. - Joga5000, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3@ spartan018
Laptop video cards are different from desktop video cards. Laptop GPU's typicically come on what are called "MXM modules." See this picture: ( http://img.presence-pc.com/news/s/l/sli_notebook.jpg ) for an idea of how two video cards can fit into a notebook. Also, a mobile 8800 would certainly not be identical to the desktop 8800GTX. It would be more akin to an underclocked 8800gts (or more realistically) like the unreleased 8600 Ultra (only 64 stream processors (half that of the GTX), and a 256-bit memory bus). - themastersb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The first laptop with liquid nitrogen cooling and a nuclear reactor?
- Sonic84, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2price?
- DrNil8tor, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3They didn't tell you that at idle it reaches about the temperature of thermanite and can burn thru your desk as you rev up the dual 8800's. This laptop also acts as a iron on the fly for fixing those wrinkles before that big meeting, or to warm your coffee, or to make grill cheese at work, IN YOUR CUBE!
- UKsHaDoW, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I think the cores get turned off when not in use.
- geuisteses, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I believe if we apply Einstein's Gnome Theorem to this problem, we can arrive at an answer.:
1) Add processor cores
2) Add standard lithium ion battery
2) ????
3) Laptop speedy awesomeness - Sabin17, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2This thing sounds like it'll cost at least $4,000 when it releases....
- EtherGnat, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4hazardc: "Some people always wonder why i always have my laptop with me, and i say, that's why i bought the SMALL one you made fun of, to make it convenient to take my computer with me everywhere.... that's the purpose of a portable computer... right?"
If you take your computer with you everywhere you go then a small computer is likely a good choice. Some people just need occasional portability, though. My grandma, for instance has a summer house--she doesn't need a lot of portability to move a computer twice a year, but a laptop is still simpler and more convenient than a desktop.
I personally have two laptops: A small convertible tablet for most of my traveling, and a 17" monster because sometimes I need the power and larger screen. Many people need more power than a small laptop can provide and don't care so much about portability.
I love people who think everybody should use their computers the same way they do. - zdiggler, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Wow.. something from Engadget on digg that is not made by Apple.
- hater2win, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I LOL'ed.
- Reflejo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1great, the first notebook Vista ready.
- colonels1020, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yikes, quad core! That thing's battery has to last like two minutes at most.
- CompIsMyRx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Battery life: 14 seconds.
- ChrisXPPro, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Does It Have Enough Fans? lol
- MikeZ, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"MacBook Pro Quad Core"
Sounds good to me! - sfpiano, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Maybe they haven't seen the heatsink/fan combination used in quad core pcs to cool them. Because if they had they'd notice that they're the size of a full keyboard.
- crzdmn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Cooling isn't so hard these days, could the whole bottom be one of those cooling pads you could buy for your laptop? Also, many people use laptops and need laptops for applications that have power outlets all around them. They just have them to have a mobile office, I use mine in a coffee shop and plug it in, at work it's plugged in, at home it's plugged in why not make laptops as powerful as high end PC's. Nobody would buy that beast for typing up a paper in a coffee shop, it's for high end gaming, graphics and video editing things like that. It's NOT your every day use system PC or laptop.
- theodicean, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1why r ppl always talkin about cooling...ever heard of liquids?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I no. I keep my laptop on ice qubes 2 keep it cool. whut noobs.
- EXreaction, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Does anyone see where the battery is at all? From the looks of it, it doesn't have one. :swoon:
- noseeme, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It should be great for playing the new game Blizzard is about to announce in about 3.5 hours.
- streak, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@computergod, for raw computing power, 1.2 GHz ultrasparc is pretty damn slow, compared to the latest from Intel and AMD.
- JrGhoull, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1this thing reminds me of a "laptop" i saw in bestbuy the other day. Had something along the lines of a 20 inch monitor...i think had some big time multimedia crap in it...it wasnt so much of a laptop as it was a desktop replacement. this will most likely fall into more of that cateogory. i wonder who that really makes sense for...i mean...who really NEEDS to be able to take a really powerful computer all over the place with em? why not get a pc and save a few bucks? i guess this is basically just being marketed towards the gamer who wants to "save space." (shrugz). All i can say to that is "to each their own."
- computergod, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This "mobile server" still beats it for raw power:
http://www.tadpole.com/products/notebooks/bullfrogdp.asp
Probably costs as much as a new car though. - Identity4, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0eek! and i thought the heating on my old Dell lappy was bad! :o Hellloooooo meltdown.
- EXreaction, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I don't know what laptops your using...
But the E1505 I bought in January runs extremely cool.
The only way it will get warm (not hot, maybe 100 F max) is if I have it sitting somewhere that the fan can't move any air (like on a bed with sheets that block off the air intake) for an hour or two. And normally the fan doesn't run at all for the most part, just once every 5-10 minutes for less than a minute.
I have a Core 2 Duo in here, the 2Ghz model. - FlatheadMonster, on 12/30/2008, -0/+0This actually sounds great to me. I live in New York City which means I don't have a ton of space for a desktop. I'm a very frequent Excel user and would greatly benefit from a quad core (I've got a lot of .xls files that take more that 10 minutes to recalc on my curent pentium 4 laptop). I frequently pack up my laptop (which weighs 11 pounds) and take it on vacation. But for all intents and purposes it mostly just sits on a desk. I'm not a super mobile person who needs to use my laptop on the plane, in the park, at starbucks etc. I just want something that I can move around, that doesn't take up too much space, and that has serious computing power to speed up xls file calculations. The blu-ray player and 500GB HD is also a plus.
- mombof, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0is this the first... bla bla bla.... welcome to computers
- schoate09, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Last time I checked, laptops were to get your work done in a mobile setting. Part of those benefits includes being able to do it on battery life for a little while. This whole design seems to defeat that purpose. In other words, why not get a desktop here?
- SmackaMuta, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0The layout and shape look very similar to the current 17" MacBook Pro (as far as I can tell). Could this be a rare Apple leak?
- spartan018, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1seriously, unless its thick like no tomorrow, theres really no way to fit all that inside. the quad-core i can believe, but 4 PCI slots worth of video power (2 8800s x 2 slots used each, yes, i know one slot is for the heatsink, but that means it takes a hell of a lot to cool just one of those things)? i dont buy it.
- spookyttws, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Nope.
- SwissCamel, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1No. Wait, yes, yes it is.
- HunterTV, on 10/11/2007, -10/+2Four processors, two fans. Sounds like a prototype to me.
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