ASUS lets loose terabyte-packin' M70 laptop

We got our hands on ASUS's beefy M70 laptop way back at CES earlier this year, but it looks like the company has just now gotten around to letting the monster loose on the general populace. In case you missed it, this one packs up to one terabyte of storage (in the form of two 500GB drives), along with a 17-inch WUXGA display, your choice of Core 2 Duo processors up to a T9300, ATI Mobile Radeon HD3650 or HD3470 graphics, and an optional Blu-ray drive, among other expectedly top-end features. To make sure no one else but you gets to toy around with all that, ASUS has also seen fit to include not one but two security measures, including the usual fingerprint scanner and ASUS's trademark SmartLogon face-scanning technology. No word on a price, but we're guessing that's a detail best kept on a need to know basis.

[Via PC Launches]

[JesseBurton @ Apr 11th 2008 3:03PM]

I want one of these...Hey Engadget, how bout you go ahead and have a contest and give one of THESE away???? preferably to me.

[Brian @ Apr 11th 2008 3:03PM]

1000 GBs of mobile storage, wonder what i'd use that for? :)

[Jevanzz @ Apr 11th 2008 3:10PM]

pr0n?

[aardvark sandwich @ Apr 11th 2008 3:23PM]

flac disc images :)

[Richard Lai @ Apr 11th 2008 3:26PM]

For starters, multi-boot to Ubuntu/Windows XP/Windows Vista/Mac OSX86.

Then all the HD videos from your camcorder.

[Mark @ Apr 11th 2008 3:27PM]

HD video editing.

[Mark @ Apr 11th 2008 3:27PM]

.. of pr0n.

[andylsu @ Apr 11th 2008 3:29PM]

Local Internet...

[dfivetwo @ Apr 11th 2008 3:23PM]

So how good is the ATI radeon mobility HD3650? I've searched around a bit, and i cant find any benchmarks, and very little info. How would it compare to a 8600M GT?

[Mark @ Apr 11th 2008 3:27PM]

I'd like to know as well ... I'm a little out of the loop when it comes to ATI cards.

[Richard Lai @ Apr 11th 2008 3:28PM]

I've just noticed that the hard drive is of non-standard size. Just hope they are fast enough.

[STNC @ Apr 11th 2008 3:28PM]

How long does it take to start up?

[Mark @ Apr 11th 2008 3:30PM]

how good are you with a pull start cord?

[Eli @ Apr 11th 2008 4:09PM]

And my two year-old laptop is a paltry 60 gigabytes... How things move in the technology business!

In other news, could the patented face-detection technology be beaten by... a photo of the person's face?

[|Geektorious Maximus| @ Apr 11th 2008 7:32PM]

Jebbus that thing is power hungry I bet. I rather get a customized MacBook Pro from Colorware for the price they might be asking for, then Boot Camp the damn thing......for pr0n.

[TT @ Apr 11th 2008 10:55PM]

So I never ever have been able to figure out how to read the name of this company, and I've been calling it

"ASSES"

that is correct, is it not?

[Down @ Apr 12th 2008 1:26AM]

Its "A" and then "SUS"

[gad get @ Apr 12th 2008 6:33AM]

Ha ha ha ha ha! Oh boy... I never even had to think about the pronunciation. Oh, that's funny!

[thedesolate1 @ Apr 13th 2008 1:08AM]

If ATI wants to get any market share back from nvidia it should first simplify their god damn naming schemes.... I can already imagine "ATI Vaporeon XXXXLLLXXLLXLXXXHD23456 !1!!!1!!1!" vs "Nvidia HForce 2012 GTX"... also I think it is pronounced
Ei - zues.

[snakepliskin @ May 21st 2008 6:00PM]

ordered 1 of them 2day