Rock's Xtreme XL8 promises twin GeForce 8800M GTXs
By Darren Murph 
posted Feb 1st 2008 10:30AM
posted Feb 1st 2008 10:30AM
posted Feb 1st 2008 10:30AM
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That thing is huge!!! Funny it's still a laptop, since few laps can support this thing (Shaq maybe?)
swap HD drive for bluray and i'll take one.
I heard it runs on coal like trains, instead of batteries.
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.
they all look fat and awkward now after seeing the macbook air :(
Engadget got rid of the word fortnight...and our comments about it.
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.
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.
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.
If you load up Crysis on this thing the battery dies right before you hit the water in the game's intro :D
very nice, can imagine thats gonna need some serious battery power though.
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.
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
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.
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.
the X6800 is not quad-core... it's dual
Heh, Gears of War / Windows, hope you like losing all your checkpoints/game saves.
See http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=583531