AJP's SLI 7800 Go 19-inch laptop
By Marc Perton 
posted Jan 10th 2006 9:41AM
posted Jan 10th 2006 9:41AM
We're ready to make a bold prediction for 2006: the market is about to be deluged with laptops with 19-inch displays. Actually, we're not being that daring here. After all, we saw some even bigger laptops at CES, and now that such luminaries as the UK's AJP Computers are rolling their own 19-inchers, it seems only a matter of time before the OEM plants in Taiwan and China begin cranking these out by the thousands. AJP's box does sound pretty good, though, with 2GB RAM, a 100GB hard drive, AMD Turion 64 MT-40 and a TV tuner (because, after all, if you've got a 19-inch display, you're gonna want to watch TV on it, right?). Of course, all that real estate is going to cost you; this one goes for over $4,000 in the UK. Come on, OEMs. Get busy, so we can get these prices down and turn up the heat on our scoliosis.
And here I was naively thinking that the 17 inch laptops around are absurdly big, we must be reaching Osborne 1 levels of unportability with these things.
Oh how the worm turns.
How about slinging your cpu tower over your shoulder with a ups battery supply and a 19 inch lcd taped to the side for the same portability? Cmon, this defeats the purpose of a laptop. Just because it fits in your lap doesn't make it portable.
well... I'm hopping for a powerbook with intel 19 inch before the end of the year ....
I have a 17 xps right now.... and is not that big.... but is my desktop replacement.... not as a laptop....
I enjoy taking it to the bathroom.... ;) with out having to close what i'm doing
Hello!
This machine sports two nVidia GeForce Go 7800's, which is why it's got "SLI" in the product name.
This seems like a feature worthy of including in the product description.
Could you get a fullsize keyboard on one of these badboys? You know, the numerical keypad and the function keys?
Might as well lol.
Its a laptop, just stopped being portable.
at least its large size makes it hard to steal.
Laptop's are only growing in size to accomodate the ever groing lap size of Americans.
How is a 19 inch laptop not portable?
I'm on a Dell XPS2 laptop, and saying that it's hard to port around compared to a desktop is silly. In 10 seconds, I can have this thing in my sleevecase and ready for transport.
Let's review: Even if this 19" is heavy, say, 13 pounds or so, that's still significantly lighter than a tower AND a monitor, to say nothing of the size difference.
A 19" may be too large to take with everywhere you go, but it is still a huge leap in portability over even a small tower.
Sure, it may not be fit for travel, but there still is a use for large laptops. If you move around alot, then it's alot easier to pack up a laptop (with, maybe, 2 cords) than your big desktop.
man... my 14" is looking smaller every day