PC Microworks intros Montevina-powered Edge uber-laptop
By Joshua Fruhlinger 
posted May 24th 2008 9:27PM
posted May 24th 2008 9:27PM
[Thanks, Matthew]
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For $8000+ she better come with the laptop too.
She comes as a default wallpaper. Does that count?
I think the users who pay $8000+ for a laptop will probably be coming also.
holy balls. i just looked and they're charing 50$ for a fucking floppy drive. a bit excessive? and on top of that, the girl probably doesn't even come with it!
So im going to play that much for a laptop, when i could spend 1/8 of that on a normal desktop, then get a nice fast portable laptop for casual gaming?
But will it play Crysis
crazy awesome- demitri martin
Ah, the usual Engadget style of writing:
Put all the good parts first and let the readers loose into their world of facy and then shatter all those dreams at the last sentence.
*fancy
That's what keeps us all coming back! We're masocists that way ;)
I feel your pain, I started smiling "This is the laptop I'm looking for!" and then BLAM eight grand ouwww my head hurts now and I'm a very sad panda.
Oh well, maybe I'll get one in 20 years just to say I could when it's more like 50 bucks.
Next one to break out "Will it play Doom" or "Will it play Crysis" will receive a nice pyroblast to the butt.
I've started hitting the "!" "Report this comment" button now for those comments. ~_~;
...will it blend?
;-P
Nice Matthew. XD
I prefer the atomic Wedgie over the pyroblast.
But will it launch? :P
http://cad-comic.com/comic.php?d=20080521
Don't you mean, when will it launch?
http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/centrino-2-delayed-amd-puma-licks-chops/
How the hell did they fit four 1TB HDDs in that thing? My 17" is already cramped with 2 HDDs!
It appears Engadget doesn't know what they are talking about! It can be configured with up to 320GB 7200rpm storage, and an external USB 2.0 4TB Hot-Swap drive system. Way to report the news wrong, Engadget.
This product is going to be an epic failure: if people want a laptop, they would go for the likes of Eee PC, and as for an extreme powerhouse like this laptop, they would naturally pick up a tower.
Basically, the price is highly unjustified. Let me know when they have sold their first machine.
For "if people want a laptop" I mean portable and affordable ones.
Some people (gamers) buy these sort of laptops so that they can easily transport them to LAN fests at their friend's house. It's a lot easier to transport a laptop than it is to transport a desktop.
Some people don't want a powerhouse that they have to disassemble, pack, move, unpack and reassemble every time they want to move for some reason.
They choose laptops for the convenience of fold and go.
@Peter and @Aguiluz: I should have made it clearer: I personally also have some sort of powerhouse laptop, but what I meant was that $8,265 price tag makes you wonder who would buy it when the tower equivalent is probably much less than half of that.
Companies advertise outrageous products to promote the brand name. Everyone does it. The market of people who actually need more than a simple phone is slim. Then how much revenue does Nokia receive from a few million N-series sales? Nothing compared to the billions of $20-$30 handsets sold to people who associate the brand with quality and innovation. The bulk of sales and revenue for any company (Ferrari, Aston Martin, etc. excluded) is made in the sale of average products to the average consumer.
@ Richard Lai
$8265 is just the maximum possible price, just if you specced it out to the maximum, and people who would do that do actually exist, they are called people with more money than sense.
However you can configure it as a massive powerhouse for under $2500, it is around this price point that most sales will come.
Don't come in with 'this product will fail' when you don't know what you're talking about. If you think there is no market for a product like this, check out alienware m15x sales.
This actually offers better specs for the money than alienware, so sales should be strong
The competition wil come when other vendors start unveiling their 860TUs over the next month or so.
@David: there is no market for the $8265 price tag (even if you think there is), so don't tell me to look at the Alienware sales because that's an entirely different category (price-wise).
When I wrote my first comment, I assumed the mentioned specs in the article are unconfigurable. The $2000 price tag does of course have a market.
@Richard
it seems likes we may have to agree to disagree, I still think that there are people loaded enough to buy the pinnacle of modern techonolgy, even if you do not.
If you were so clued in at the time of your fitrst comment, I don't see how the eee could have got brought in to all this. When I talk about the alienware I am talking about the $2500 price point, wich as I mentioned in my post is the most important thing for performance manuafacturers.
@David: I brought in the Eee PC to highlight the price-to-portability ratio.
We both agree that the $2000 price tag still has a market, so on one end of the scale we have $549 for portability, against $2000 something for a powerhouse. That's fine and quite the norm, so we can use this scale as a reference.
But then we have the $8265 (again, I assumed that was the only available configuration). $549 vs $8265 is just too big of a gap, and compare that with the above existing scale the extended range will provide only a tiny number of customers.
I'll agree with Hung that this is just to get the media's attention. Before your comment I still thought this laptop only has one fixed configuration, instead of being a customizable order starting from $2000.
So I'll have to take back my original comment as that was for if the laptop is only available in the $8265 flavour.
kl yeah, I totally understand where you are coming from, I think engadget were a bit misleading in their Article.
Hey, it's a rebranded Clevo 860TU!
I don't know how they got $8,265, but I pimped out this machine for under $5500. $6500 if you want a 64GB SSD.
Only 2gb of ram???? Are you serious???
but it's ddr3 ram....
for $8k we can expect that they have maxed everything, including ram: a 4gb kit only cost $340....
Just a notice, it does not come with a battery...
In all seriousness, what would be the battery life? 21mins?
Isn't it HSDPA?
"nVIDIA Gefore 9800M GTX" Woah? is this right? When did this card come out? How is this different than the 8800M GTX?
It's got 1000 more units of fun?
CLEVO?
Just another rebadge. Like Sager, Eurocom, etc...
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This thing is sweet, but uh, overpriced a bit, eh?
Anyway, the best part is that the person who reported it shares my name.
...With a battery life of 5 minutes!...
"8 Cell Battery - Up to 2 hours battery life"
Insane laptop with insane price and unbalanced components. For people who can afford a Bentley but still drive that old Ford pickup...
Besides, why 15 inches? Should have been at least 17 inches!
Yes, it's $8000 IF you want the 8gb of RAM, the 64gb SSD drive, Blu-ray burner, and every other option under the sun.
You can easily configure it into a nice gaming rig for around $3000. Best of all, you can choose any Windows OS you want, or none at all.
I was just going to say, people are totally over-reacting about the price Engadget reported, which is fully decked out. A base configuration is $2574. B)
Or just wait 12 months and pay $2,800 for a machine with the same specs and pocket the $5,200 dollars you didnt lose in one year.
$8000 that could my my new laptop & new car
The article certainly is misleading here. If you look at the site you'll see the base price is about $1750 (at least for this weekend) and after that it will go up $500. Either way try finding anything with similar specs for that price. I just picked one up with the P9600, 4gb DDR3 ram, 200gb 7200rpm hdd, Nvidia 9800GTS, and all the base options for $2013 shipped. Considering that before this I was looking at Clevo's M570 for slightly more money with an 8600m, T9500, and 4gb of DDR2, I think it is an amazing deal. And since Intel isn't planning a mobile platform change until Q2 2009, this gives you a whole year before you are officially outdated.
I gotta get a second job....
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The model in the wallpaper is someone I know and have worked with... I hope they got an image release from the photographer...
her number, please?
j/k ;)
Will I notice a bigger difference with 4gb of DDR3 RAM vs. 2gb or 2.8ghz vs. 2.5 ghz CPU? I'm trying to figure out whether I should get the 4gb RAM over the 2.8ghz CPU speed.
Can someone tell me what they think of this company or this laptop when they get one! I am in the market, and am living just fifteen minutes away from this company now, so I want to know what an owner thinks of them.
For 8000 dollars I could buy the person in the picture.