http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/ Engadget Comments for PC Microworks intros Montevina-powered Edge uber-laptop http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 9:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 25th 2008 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 25th 2008 4:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 25th 2008 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/
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.]]>May 24th 2008 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/
Oh well, maybe I'll get one in 20 years just to say I could when it's more like 50 bucks. ]]>May 24th 2008 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/
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http://cad-comic.com/comic.php?d=20080521]]>May 25th 2008 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/
http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/centrino-2-delayed-amd-puma-licks-chops/]]>May 28th 2008 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/
Basically, the price is highly unjustified. Let me know when they have sold their first machine.]]>May 24th 2008 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/
They choose laptops for the convenience of fold and go.]]>May 24th 2008 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 25th 2008 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/$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.]]>May 25th 2008 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/
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.]]>May 25th 2008 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/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.]]>May 25th 2008 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/
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.]]>May 25th 2008 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 25th 2008 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 10:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 25th 2008 4:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/
In all seriousness, what would be the battery life? 21mins?]]>May 24th 2008 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 10:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 25th 2008 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/
Just another rebadge. Like Sager, Eurocom, etc...
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Anyway, the best part is that the person who reported it shares my name.]]>May 24th 2008 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 24th 2008 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/May 25th 2008 12:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/Besides, why 15 inches? Should have been at least 17 inches!]]>May 25th 2008 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/24/pc-microworks-intros-montevina-powered-edge-uber-laptop/
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.

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