Eurocom Shipping First Hexacore i7-980X Laptop

[JMcEntegart]

Eurocom yesterday announced that it will ship the world's first six core notebook.

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[Shadow703793]

Two words word: Power hog

 

[mtyermom]

Awesome, it booted in only... aw, battery's dead.

 

[scook9]

They keep acting like Eurocom designs these....they are just the reseller (which most people hate actually) that Clevo lets sell these.

Clevo is doing the hard part not Eurocom

 

[scryer_360]

Even with a twelve cell battery, that things only going to last at most an hour (in power saver mode). Still, this is more of a "desktop replacement" then a "laptop." Anyone who can afford the $3000 price tag can afford to have a power cord in every port, so to speak.

 

[RazberyBandit]

12lbs huh? Almost like carrying around a bowling ball. But if you drop this thing, you may only ever get 1 strike.

 

[sliem]

So now you can do 2 more things at the same time compared to 4 things. Neat!

 

[JasonAkkerman]

That's not a laptop, it's a portable workstation.

 

[jn77]

I like the specs with 1 exception. Who in their right mind is building laptops like this with out a Mobile ATI 58xxx Eyefinity edition card.

Every laptop I look at; at this level is using Nvidia's re-branded 5 year old (

 

[Computer_Lots]

This thing is meant to be a workstation, not a gaming laptop. You don't need 6-cores and 2.6TB of space for gaming. This thing is for CAD and junk like that. It's still way overkill for a laptop.

 

[Regulas]

I liked to see the words, Open GL. That is the way and in HTML 5 too. Break the Direct X monopoly.

 

[Regulas]

The perfect laptop for the design engineer on the go. Design in AutoCad in your hotel room on your way to the engineering conference.

 

[HalJordan]

Why put a battery in this beast anyway? I suppose it might serve as an UPS...enough time to save your work during a power outage...maybe.

 

[rhino13]

This is like a laptop-- that you have to keep plugged in!

 

[Hupiscratch]

Looks like people forgot what is "Desktop Replacement". Just because is a laptop, it doesn't mean it was designed for chatting at Starbucks. This is made for you to leave you workstation from one place to another without caring about a ton of wires.

 

[akhodjaev]

[citation][nom]mtyermom[/nom]Awesome, it booted in only... aw, battery's dead.[/citation]
Actually specification misses, this laptop has 4 attachment of batteries

 

[cekasone]

i just wonder how many people actually just buy these damn things

 

[sisley_111]

the 3000$ start price include a GTX280M, not a workstation card.

You can have a mobile 5870 with no penalty on the price, sort of.

If you want a workstation card, add 480$ for the FX 2800 and 1080$ for the fx 3800.

 

[digiex]

You can call it "Transportable Desktop".

 

[athreex]

[citation][nom]scryer_360[/nom]Even with a twelve cell battery, that things only going to last at most an hour (in power saver mode). Still, this is more of a "desktop replacement" then a "laptop." Anyone who can afford the $3000 price tag can afford to have a power cord in every port, so to speak.[/citation]

I think the term server replacement should be more proper than the traditional desktop replacement naming.

 

[njalterio]

It's made with bits of real panther, so you know it's good. 🙂

 

[rubix_1011]

Is that a nuclear reactor cooling tower I see on the back...?

 

[anamaniac]

As nice as it is, I like Sager's 18.4" beast.
They're bound to offer it with two 5970m's eventually. =D

Kind of ugly though.

 

[soky602]

The entire thing weighed a backbreaking 11.9 lbs.

Backbreaking??? its a laptop! that's more like ball crushing

 

[iboomer]

It's not a tumor!