Rock's Xtreme XL8 promises twin GeForce 8800M GTXs

Merely two days after Dell added NVIDIA's GeForce 8800M GTX to its beastly M1730, it seems that Rock is looking to up the graphical ante as well. Reportedly, the firm is gearing up to unleash the (likely rebadged) Xtreme XL8, which will house an Intel X6800 quad-core processor, a delightful pair of NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTXs, up to 1TB of storage space and a 17-inch 1,920 x 1,200 resolution panel to boot. Furthermore, you'll find an Ethernet jack, Draft-N wireless card, an obligatory (no, really) HD DVD drive and a presumably laughable battery life. Waiting for the sting? Try £2,500 ($4,976) to £3,000 ($5,971), with pre-orders going live later this month.

[Mobius_1 @ Feb 1st 2008 10:57AM]

That thing is huge!!! Funny it's still a laptop, since few laps can support this thing (Shaq maybe?)

[Kal @ Feb 1st 2008 11:04AM]

swap HD drive for bluray and i'll take one.

[aardvark sandwich @ Feb 1st 2008 11:16AM]

I heard it runs on coal like trains, instead of batteries.

[Eric @ Feb 1st 2008 11:18AM]

Reminds me of the Tadpole laptops from the 80 that ran Soaris. That is some monster! And I bet it comes with XP Pro downgrade discs.

[Chris Macdonald @ Feb 1st 2008 11:20AM]

they all look fat and awkward now after seeing the macbook air :(

[MikeLong @ Feb 1st 2008 11:24AM]

Engadget got rid of the word fortnight...and our comments about it.

[Ken @ Feb 1st 2008 11:27AM]

Yet another Engadget post about some tiny company selling Clevo rebadges touting them as "new". This laptop has been available all over since December. Some delays have been discussed on the 8800GTX's but this certainly is not news.

[llampwall @ Feb 1st 2008 12:00PM]

I don't know why they just looked at Rock's version of this laptop. This is just the Clevo D901 laptop rebranded by them. Plenty of other resellers have the same laptop under their name, and some already have the 8800 GTX's shipping. Take Sager for instance (www.sagernotebooks.com), they have it in stock, ready to ship for a lower price than crappy Rock.

[Amar Singh @ Feb 1st 2008 12:32PM]

Trust me, Rock is not the only one doing this. Try Kobalt Computers. I have ordered from them and they are even shipping the new Pentryn Processors RIGHT NOW.. search on them on Google.

[wrabbit @ Feb 1st 2008 12:35PM]

If you load up Crysis on this thing the battery dies right before you hit the water in the game's intro :D

[Killerchronic @ Feb 1st 2008 1:13PM]

very nice, can imagine thats gonna need some serious battery power though.

[Reid @ Feb 1st 2008 1:23PM]

I just don't get gaming laptops. If it's gonna be bigger than the standard 15" laptop (like a widescreen MacBook Pro or the ThinkPad T60 I have on my desk here), it's more of a pain than it's worth.

Get a desktop for the desktop, and a laptop you can actually carry, for the road.

[JohnTitor @ Feb 1st 2008 4:43PM]

Ah come on Engadget it's been 3 years, how long will it take you to familiarize yourself with the world's most powerful laptop, the D900C
it's just another upgrade and get it right, they did dual 8800M GTX FIRST

[Zeus.:God @ Feb 1st 2008 7:24PM]

Swap the HD-DVD drive for Blu-Ray? Blu-Ray has got to be the worst format for computer users ever. We will be absolutely shafted with the amount of DRM those things will have.

[Zeus.:God @ Feb 1st 2008 7:25PM]

Reid, thats the point of this thing. People who travel a lot or need something portable, but don't want to lose the power of a desktop or gaming abilities for that portability would love something like this.

Don't be such a fool.

[aznofazns @ Feb 1st 2008 10:30PM]

the X6800 is not quad-core... it's dual

[dnm @ Feb 11th 2008 5:16AM]

Heh, Gears of War / Windows, hope you like losing all your checkpoints/game saves.
See http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=583531