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waters1701
12-05-2005, 06:16 PM
I saw this on Engadget.com: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000150070599/

This thing's a monster...I have to have one. Does anyone out there feel like being generous this holiday season?
Ashpool
12-06-2005, 01:10 AM
I wonder how quickly that thing would sap battery power...

Nonetheless very cool though.
ImaNihilist
12-06-2005, 01:15 AM
It's just a Clevo, and AFAIK, still not actually available yet.

How does a retarded company like that actually get clout? That's a Clevo with a spider sticker on it and a $500 markup.

Alienware, VoodooPC, etc have had this notebook on their site for the last 4 months. It still isnt' actually available. Since it looks just like the Intel one, I'm guessing that's not ACTUALLY a picture of what it says it is.

Apparently, there are a butt-load of chipset problems and it doesn't actually "work" yet. Even if you COULD buy one, you wouldn't want one.
Vengance_01
12-06-2005, 02:49 AM
its nice, but Pentium M is way to go these days for moblie laptops. Pentium M + 7800GTXgo is pure moblie bliss. Again its a clevo desgin using a via chipset, a very dated on at that. No thanks, if I wanted DC in my laptop I just wait for Intels DC Pentium M :)
Johnmcl7
12-06-2005, 08:51 AM
It's a Clevo D900K(looks the same as its Intel brother, the Clevo D900T), which has been delayed quite a few times due to chipset issues - currently the 7800GTX is not working with it (which they hope to resolve by the end of January) so the 6800U is all they can offer for now.

John
Vengance_01
12-06-2005, 08:13 PM
bahahaha Pentium and the somona platforum all the way. I love my Dell Insprion 9300 with its upgraded 7800GTX, and so to be pin modded 1.6--->2.13GHZ :)
Johnmcl7
12-07-2005, 03:28 AM
I fully agree, 17 inches and 4kg is as far as I'm prepared to go - main disadvantage for the pentium-m is no dual core but that will be sorted soon.

Apart from anything else, I think this shows AMD should no longer be relying on other companies to produce chipsets for them - the Intel version of this AMD laptop, the Clevo D900K was out last year with the 915 chipset for which there were no large delays.

John
ImaNihilist
12-07-2005, 04:17 AM
I fully agree, 17 inches and 4kg is as far as I'm prepared to go - main disadvantage for the pentium-m is no dual core but that will be sorted soon.

Apart from anything else, I think this shows AMD should no longer be relying on other companies to produce chipsets for them - the Intel version of this AMD laptop, the Clevo D900K was out last year with the 915 chipset for which there were no large delays.

John
It's just typical Via crap though. If it was an NVIDIA chipset, it would have been sorted out. NVIDIA will eventually make a mobile chipset if and when AMD gets serious about mobile processors.
Johnmcl7
12-07-2005, 06:08 AM
Nvidia chipsets are not flawless either - plus they do not make a mobile chipset currently despite the fact they'd had how many years to do so? That fact alone highlights the issue that AMD cannot rely on other companies to produce chipsets, if they want more significant gains in the notebook sector they need their own reliable and readily available chipset - or at the very least ensure they can get that from other companies.

John