Asus M70S and M50S notebooks boast 1TB of storage

As you may have read in our coverage of Hitachi's new 5K500 2.5-inch 500GB drive, Asus will be the first manufacturer to pack a pair of these capacious components into a set of upcoming widescreen models, giving the 17-inch M70S and 15-inch M50S the distinguished honor of being the world's first one terabyte laptops. Besides those oddly-sized drives (which can configured in either RAID 0 or RAID 1), these machines will also offer up to WUXGA or WSXGA+ resolutions (for the M70 and M50, respectively), 2.4GHz T7700 Core 2 Duo processors, AMD ATI Radeon HD 3650 graphics, and a fingerprint reader, along with an optional hybrid TV tuner and remote. As usual, the good stuff (pictures, pricing) will be coming in a few days at the Show of Shows.

[Todd @ Jan 3rd 2008 10:46AM]

I can finally take all my entire pr0n collection with me on the road!

[Richard Lai @ Jan 3rd 2008 11:40AM]

All hail the Engadget HD-Porn King!

[Wolfticket @ Jan 3rd 2008 11:01AM]

One terabyte eh? Who'da thunk it?

[Khris @ Jan 3rd 2008 11:33AM]

What's the point of building a drive that's a non-standard size and probably won't fit in a laptop which wasn't specifically designed for it?

Useless IMO.

[Richard Lai @ Jan 3rd 2008 11:46AM]

Well it's either wait for another year for the standard size version, or break the mould and have it now. There's always a market for this capacity on the move, although the price IS a bit steep.

For me, now that I shoot RAW format my photo collection has flooded my little 120GB internal HDD, so I've added a 500GB Lacie 3.5" on my desk. I'd much prefer an internal 2.5" one even if it means taking up a few more mm, as I do travel a bit.

[Khris @ Jan 3rd 2008 12:51PM]

Don't get me wrong, I definitely see the need for increased storage space on a laptop, but it shouldn't come at the cost of not falling within the existing standard.

[Richard Lai @ Jan 3rd 2008 11:38AM]

Any photos of the laptops yet? Google gave me nothing at the moment.

[Eldiablo @ Jan 3rd 2008 12:05PM]

Yeay, upto just under 1 terabyte of unecrypted customer data in a nice compact form. Sweepstake on which government department/private company to be the first to have it lost on the train, stolen from the boot of a car etc?