We
told you NVIDIA's all-new superpowered mobile GPU would only fit inside jumbo-sized cases and here's your proof. The Clevo Style Note D900 is neither stylish nor much of a note taker, but boy it's a big, bad gaming machine. That trifecta of fans you see above is cooling the
GTX 480M chip as well as a 2.93GHz Core i7-940 -- a CPU that's designed for desktop duty from what we can gather. You won't be shocked to discover this 17-inch desktop replacement rather burned the feathers off some similarly juiced up high fliers, but the difference is of course that laptops like the
ASUS G73JH are actually available to buy, as opposed to a pipe dream demo machine like the Clevo. All the same, you might wanna check out this sneak peak before
HH does a full review.
Update: Turns out Sager is
already offering to furnish you with a GTX 480M-equipped rig that looks very much like this one, including a selection of desktop-class Core i7s. [Thanks, Barry]
posted June 4th 2010 5:43PM
Yo, bro have you seen my battery life anywhere?
@paulodourado You will have to buy yourself your very own nuclear reactor.
@bvds Just attach a steam generator to the gfx card and recapture the heat/energy!
@paulodourado Makes me wonder if the flashlight in Alan Wake had the same specs as this laptop "Hold up lemme grab some more batteries"
@paulodourado I seriously have to wonder where they found a battery that doesn't just give up and die when the video card and CPU starts demanding 300 watts. Come to think of it, just how big is the AC adapter?!
@paulodourado
next up: smartphones with cooling.
Marty, it runs on Steam!
Do does it have a battery or do I just have to plug it into the wall?
@Goaliegeek Yes. Yes, it will have a battery, and yes, it will only last the 15 minutes you need to find your charger, plug it into the wall and then plug in your laptop.
Does this run on gasoline or diesel?
@shishi
120+ octane gasoline only.
@shishi Nope... It uses solar power.
@shishi
Question is- will this thing still run two years later? Or will I have to bring the poorly soldered thing back to life using the oven bake trick?
@shishi
FYI I say so because Nvidia (more so than ATI) does a poor job soldering their mobile GPUs. The lead-free solder probably takes the most blame.
My problem with gaming laptops is that I don't trust hot running hardware packed together that tightly to last much longer than the warranty.
@FNi
I'm more like " Will the Clevo D900 come with a non-stick lid so I can make omelet on the go?"
Daaaamn... You have to carry a separate 10kg battery.
@IcyTexx with this 10kg "notebook"
Hope those fans run at 100,000 rpm
@jaysim44
Yes; it's the first ever laptop which can double as a hovercraft.
@Professor Hubert J Farnsworth
Come on, be fair. A portable of this size would stay around the house... And blow the leaves into nice little piles in the fall.
Source: Hot Hardware. How apt.
Sager is already taking pre-orders for that laptop. Clevo hasn't released a new laptop model in years, they just adapter their current offering to the new hardware available. There's one 17" laptop (that actually looks quite nice, I mean it could pass for a business laptop) that has an option for a 285m, a 5870 Mobility Radeon, or a Quadro 3800m.
All in the same exact chassis. It doesn't surprise me they're using their desktop replacement model for the 480m. I imagine the only other kind of laptop that could properly cool it would be an 18.4" monstrosity.
@Prevacator
Ugh, you beat me to it, but here is the link to the Sager laptop:
http://www.sagernotebook.com/index.php?page=product_info&model_name=NP9285
I bought a Sager gaming laptop back in 2006 with an awesome mobile 7900GTX with 512mb of RAM!! It was a beast back then, still works fine :)
@Imogen Heap
Also, the base configuration including the new GTX 480 is $2800 and it only goes up if you add some truly amazing options like the i7-980X with 6 cores!!
@Imogen Heap funny thing is this is worth the money unlike a similar priced macbook pro
@Imogen Heap I notice they call it 'desktop replacement'.. probably for fear of lawsuits from people burning their laps with the thing.
@mukatuna
Well, I mean come on. It uses a DESKTOP i7 processor. It even uses a mobile x58 socket board with Triple DDR3 RAM support. You can customize the thing to have 16GB of RAM.
It's a desktop replacement in every sense of the word. Other gaming laptops still at least use all mobile components, the only thing mobile on this "notebook" is the GPU.
Well forget about putting that in my M15x. If the sucker needs 4 heat pipes and from the looks of it 2 dedicated fans (The third looks to be processor specific.) it ain't gonna happen.
3D Mark is useless, all that it shows is how much each graphics card maker can artificially tweak their drivers for it. Besides that, its more CPU dependent than nearly every modern game.
[FUNNY JOKE ABOUT HOW HOT IT IS HERE]
Har har, I'm funny and original
@EGOvoruhk
If you made a joke about how hot Fermi is, you blew it.
If you made a joke about blowing it, you blew it.
Speaking of blowing, I think those fans blow pretty hard.
Better call the vet, these... OK no I'll stop.
But seriously folks, if you want a portable workstation that accelerates Adobe software... you're looking at it.
Close it's uranium haha
@coolicer
You realize that was updated, right? nVidia doesn't blacklist sites, if you had gone back to the original posting from Hardware Secrets, you'd see nVidia never blacklisted them. They don't do that.
@Prevacator
Badly functioning comment system aside,
I would love to get a link to that :)
@coolicer
It's not letting me post comments with links for some reason.
@Prevacator
email me at coolicerz@gmail.com :D
@coolicer
Sent.
I wish battery technology would improve as quickly as all the other tech components.
Wow, all it needs is a skirt and you can use it as a hovercraft.
Whatever you do, don't put that sucker on your lap!
To all the hot jokes: it's a portable workstation. Though most portables are for visiting the coffee shop, many aren't. And they do come in handy; I used to carry around a slim case packed with a quadcore and velociraptors- no more, these days.
We have a Clevo D900 in the house thanks to Novatech.
While it may only have the i7 920 desktop chip under the bonnet and the mobile GTX280, it is still wicked fast.
Is that a lap-top and a stove-top? N-I-C-E!
HELP WANTED: Gullible, techically inclined & pimply faced gamers with lots of extra money to buy our laptops. In return you'll get a free space heater and awesome frame rates the next time you take on Grandma. (small print) Warning, will cause defects and low sperm count rates in males if left in their lap. Might also cause spontaneous combustion of clothing or animal fir if your pet gets too close. Do not place near flamable liquids. You've been warned!
I've always wanted to have a laptop/waffle iron!
Haha even the labels admit it, CAUTION High temperature parts. If the whole rear of the laptop is one big cooler system where the hell will the ODD and battery go.
@RampantNinja
Might not be so bad if they equip the bottom with a cover made of space shuttle thermal tile...
I kill polar bears for fun
So, is that a laptop, or a lap melter?