Hands on Clevo's OEM-ready 15- and 17-inch gaming rigs

You may not know who Clevo is but rest assured your brand-named laptop vendors like Alienware, Voodoo, Hypersonic, and Sager surely do. The Taiwanese OEM just unleashed its new 17-inch pixel M570TU (pictured) and 15-inch M860TU rigs offering WUXGA (1,920 x 1,200) resolutions right here at CeBIT. The 17-incher features Intel's "new generation" processor and chipset, 512MB of nVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX graphics, a 2 megapixel webcam, Blu-ray (or HD DVD drive too for suckers), TV Tuner, TPM, fingerprint reader, and e-SATA and HDMI ports around back. The 15-inch offers pretty much same as its bigger, 17-inch bro only without the TV tuner and Blu-ray disc drive. The M860TU does offer HSDPA connectivity though which is fair trade-off in our opinion.

Gallery: Hands on Clevo's OEM-ready 15- and 17-inch gaming rigs

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[Thanks, bhattsan and Charles]

[Ken @ Mar 5th 2008 3:19PM]

"You may not know who Clevo is..."

That's probably because Engadget's poor reporting keeps repeating product launches of Clevo rebrands instead of cutting the middle man out and reporting Clevo product updates. I think then people who get most of their info from Engadget would know who Clevo is.

[Brian @ Mar 5th 2008 3:19PM]

Prices?

[David Van (Cool Prizes Inc.) @ Mar 5th 2008 3:19PM]

This looks SMEXY!

[mac @ Mar 5th 2008 3:21PM]

Damn! A 15.4" screen with WUXGA resolution? I'll take eight.

[foxdude0486 @ Mar 5th 2008 3:26PM]

Dell's D830 has been doing this for a while now... Considering I'm on one right now running 1920x1200. Almost makes things to small for me even..

[rav97 @ Mar 5th 2008 3:35PM]

This is nothing new. The ThinkPad T61p also has a 15.4" WUXGA. They are manufactured by Samsung, AFAIK.

[blarvh @ Mar 5th 2008 4:01PM]

What's the deal with the mirror in place of the screen?

[Richard @ Mar 5th 2008 4:43PM]

The Alienware m15x also offers WUXGA, but they have a matte finish so you don't have to worry about the mirror look.

[Ignatius @ Mar 5th 2008 4:51PM]

You sure you've got the million dollars to back up that?

[tanooki2003 @ Mar 5th 2008 3:22PM]

Now this is my absolute favorite brand of laptops. I still have my older D900K and my current model D901C which can take a Core 2 Quad desktop CPU, not some wussy wimpy mobile CPU.

Clevo laptops like these even feature subwoofers and optional TV tuners. Not many laptops currently on the market can compare to Clevo, not to mention this company is the backbone of Alienware, Voodoo, Hypersonic, and also Sager.

Keep up the great work Clevo!

[rv @ Mar 5th 2008 4:36PM]

I would not want a desktop cpu in a laptop. My last one did, and it overheated like a bitch.

[tanooki2003 @ Mar 5th 2008 4:50PM]

I bet it was probably a Pentium 4 PressHOT (Prescott) series. I had one of them in a Dell Inspiron XPS, which is the same laptop as the Inspiron 9100. That thing was an oven.

My Clevo laptops that I own do not overheat at all but yet can take all kinds of abuse that I throw at it. My D900K took a desktop AMD Athlon X2 4800 Socket 939 CPU and can go up to the FX-61. That laptop never has once gotten too hot to handle or displayed the same symptoms as the Dell XPS.

[dBs @ Mar 5th 2008 5:32PM]

Yep, I have that very model being shown here. I got it at the beginning of this semester (only with the older 7950GTX video card). In fact, Im typing on it now =D

I use this thing more than my desktop which is more powerful.

Its a super nice laptop and I completely recommend it.

[billmao @ Mar 5th 2008 3:27PM]

The lighting makes it look like it's plated in gold

[Shannin @ Mar 5th 2008 3:27PM]

who dat id the reflection?

[Michael L. @ Mar 5th 2008 11:38PM]

Boy does he look like this guy: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2346359040/tt0477348

[Pro7 @ Mar 5th 2008 3:30PM]

It's made by quanta. There are several other same configurationlaptops, who look absolutely same and have the absolutely same conf,but all wear different brands. Some of the brands are Hyrican and Nexoc. Here are 2 samples.
P.S. as you all my guessed, nexoc and hyrican, are just like clevo, no name brands. You could tell quanta to print idiot laptop brand and they would do it.
NEXOC:
http://www.notebook-paradies.com/oxid.php/cl/details/anid/66d46b8a6f5ce8091.98773230/NEXOC-Osiris-E705II---T7250_17%2522TFT-%2528WUXGA%2529_nVidia-GeForce-8700M-GT-mit-512-MB_2GB_160GB_DVD-DL_WLAN_PickUp-Service/
Hyrican:
http://www.hyrican.de/DshopServer1/De/showdetail.DHP1?IArtnummer=1_2970LWMAS36793,83

[David Van (Cool Prizes Inc.) @ Mar 5th 2008 3:33PM]

Those suxxors.... Fakeass brands and not worth it...

[Amol @ Mar 5th 2008 9:28PM]

"It's made by quanta..."

No it's not. Clevo is an ODM. It's people like you who "may not know who Clevo is..."

I'm on a 2 year old Clevo M570U. Love this thing =D

[Pro7 @ Mar 5th 2008 3:32PM]

Ooops, typos in my comment.

[David Van (Cool Prizes Inc.) @ Mar 5th 2008 3:35PM]

Clevo is A REAL BRAND PRO7 !

[ZeitgeistXIII @ Mar 5th 2008 3:46PM]

hmm maybe time to upgrade the D900T although it wont come from Delienware this time.

[ssdforums @ Mar 5th 2008 3:46PM]

That plastic display is about the opposite of "hands on"

[Christian @ Mar 5th 2008 4:06PM]

It does dual HD format? interesting....

[Matt @ Mar 5th 2008 4:14PM]

Eh, get a real computer... get a Mac.

[tanooki2003 @ Mar 5th 2008 4:44PM]

HAHAHA!!! that's a good one.
I needed a laugh after a long day.

[Argot @ Mar 5th 2008 8:24PM]

That's an oxymoron...

[iofthestorm @ Mar 5th 2008 9:45PM]

No, he's just a moron.

[Evan @ Mar 5th 2008 10:37PM]

Why isn't a Mac a "real" computer? Even an "entry level" MacBook is equipped with a 2.1GHz~2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo, which is on-par or better than most other manufacturers' higher-end laptops (like Dell's XPS M1330, which starts at a measly 1.66GHz), and far more powerful than the average laptop sold in BestBuy! In fact, the most powerful laptop on display in stores like BestBuy is usually a MacBook Pro!

[David @ Mar 7th 2008 2:21PM]

low powered xps m1330 cheaper than macbook, not really fair to call it high end
obv they can compute, but aestetically I would say they are the furthest removed from a computer, as they are design lead.

[Richard @ Mar 5th 2008 4:44PM]

Quanta is supplying the new Alienware chassis.

[Richard @ Mar 5th 2008 4:44PM]

Comment system is messing up for me again. That was supposed to be a reply to an earlier comment... but... yeah.

[dudeInAmerica @ Mar 5th 2008 4:55PM]

Is that Anton in the reflection?

Where's his air tank?

[DraconianSoul @ Mar 5th 2008 5:08PM]

"new 17-inch pixel M570TU"

That's a huge pixel... it must take up the whole screen!

[tpp @ Mar 5th 2008 5:08PM]

Any idea on how much they each weigh?

Oh, and thanks for letting me know my M570U Clevo is obsolete.

[Evan @ Mar 5th 2008 10:10PM]

I honestly don't understand how glossy screens caught on, with reflections like the one in the photograph.

[Garrett @ Mar 6th 2008 5:43AM]

they do offer a little better clarity than matte screens, and they give deeper blacks - less backlight bleeding. i forget why thats true though. something about the way it works..

[rodcadneo @ Mar 6th 2008 4:16AM]

sexy laptop with sexy specs

[Joe W @ Mar 10th 2008 11:13AM]

hm .. looks familure? http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np5793-custom-laptop-built-clevo-m570ruu-m571ruu-p-2276.html