Up-Close With Clevo's New Desktop Replacements

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These two behemoths promise a lot of power under the hood—and enough heft to cause fatal blunt force trauma.

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[scook9]

the np9285 is just the 9280 with a new gpu....which is the D900f NOT the x7200

 

[FATAL STR1K3]

price?

 

[gayan]

Dang those are going to be BIG and HOT... and did i say Heavy?

 

[greatsaltedone]

It is beyond me why anyone would put fermi into a laptop. The battery drain must be awful!

 

[sublifer]

The mere act of dropping either "portable" on a person's head is undoubtedly enough to kill them.

That was funny. Put more stuff like this in your stories Rico

 

[freiheitner]

Put about four inches between the top of the keyboard and the bottom of the display and then I'll consider it a desktop replacement. Until then, I can't use it because I have to hunch over so much to read the screen.

 

[ricardok]

Since notebooks can't be upgraded (you can only touch the HD/Memory) than I wouldn't say that those will ever replace desktops.

 

[anamaniac]

Clevo, you make me happy. You know exactly what this man wants.

 

[razercultmember1]

Have fun looking at a melted piece of plastic with those fermis

 

[Ehsan w]

jeez.....
"GPU: Dual-Configuration GTX 480M With SLI"
still only the performance of an Nvidia 6800gt....so....

 

[Ehsan w]

Oh i'm sorry.
with dx 11

 

[tokenz]

I will pass. Rather just have a desktop

 

[falchard]

Hooray a notebook with a 10 minute battery life.

 

[scook9]

[citation][nom]RicardoK[/nom]Since notebooks can't be upgraded (you can only touch the HD/Memory) than I wouldn't say that those will ever replace desktops.[/citation]

You can actually upgrade the cpu and video cards as well if you are not an idiot....

And for the battery life remarks, this is a mobile workstation, not a netbook

 

[Arethel]

I used to have a Sager 8890. Quite a nice machine for having in college as I changed my residence 6 times in four years. I could never take this computer to class with me though, just too heavy, noisy, and kind of embarrassing.

One things for sure, that computer needed constant maintenance. Cooling was a major issue that required me to have a pretty strict PM schedule. I completely wore that computer out after 5 good years of gaming, coding and rendering. The plastic casing finally gave into thermal wear and my computer split in half once it got too brittle.

I don't ever regret the purchase. I had one of the most powerful portable computers out there, but it did cost me a small fortune. Five years was plenty of life for me, by that point I was out of school and settled in with a more permanent lifestyle, so a desktop was more appropriate.

These mobile computers are a niche market. There was a time it made sense for me to have one. Now it doesn't. Now I prefer powerful desktops and a very lightweight laptop.

 

[Arethel]

I used to transport that Sager back and forth between my apartment and my laboratory. It was priceless to not have to worry about constantly transitioning data from a home computer to a university workstation.

The 2.35" model is quite thick. The 1.7" model is not bad though. I think my Sager was 1.8" thick and 13.5 lbs.

I really think it would have been better if Clevo used 1920 x 1200 resolution screens instead. I loved my non-widescreen Sager at 1280 x 1024, perfect for getting work done. Right now though I have a Dell U2410 and 1920 x 1200 is a pretty good compromise.

 

[robertking82881]

ive got to get me this heater to keep me warm in winter

 

[shreejan86]

whats the price?

 

[HeadScratcher7]

I was all set to buy a Clevo before I noticed the cramped keyboard. Looks like they use the same keyboard (with the non-standard 10-key) for every computer they make -regardless of whether it's got a 15.6" screen or 18.4".

When I buy a desktop replacement I expect a full size keyboard with a standard 10-key pad on the side. The whole point of going the route of a desktop replacement is to be able to use it as-is without having to plug it into a port replicator before I can get some real work done.

If anyone with some clout has access to Clevo's ear, could they please mention this? When I talked to a Clevo reseller they said no one had ever complained to them before about it. But who would? They would do just like I did and simply buy a different laptop with a proper keyboard. I can't stand companies that try to build a "super" product and then skimp on the basics. When they get the keyboard right, then maybe I'll be interested in the rest.

 

[JarrettP]

Extended battery for up to 3 minutes of gameplay and a free cooling mat to increase lifetime to up to two seconds running at full power!