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The Israeli Palestine dispute is a short term problem - Dr Craig Barrett, Intel
Tosh goes with Nvidia two-way
TOSHIBA IS quite possibly the first player off the mark with a notebook sporting twin 8600 GT cards.
The latest Nvidia mobile part has been in plenty of machines in the last few months, including Apple's latest Macbooks. However, Toshiba's new Dynabook Satellite WXW has two of the little beggars in SLI mode, making it the most powerful DX10 notebook out there - for now.
Each of the cards has 256MB of memory, making for a 512MB portable Crysis monster. However, the display is a little disappointing, sporting a relatively low-resolution 1680x1050 17-inch screen.
The rest of the machine is as expected, with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, WiFi and a rather tasty 4GB of RAM, although the dual-wielding theme is continued with a pair of 160GB drives.
Toshiba isn't exactly a name you'd usually associate with hardcore gaming, but this could well be the machine to get if you're a hardcore LANner. Bad luck, then, that it's not available outside of Japan for a few months yet.
If you can read Japanese, you're in luck with some extra pictures here. ยต
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Dell has had the dual 8700GTs for a month in their XPS gaming notebook. And there are a few other makers with SLI 8600s as well. This article is hardly newsworthy.
Macbooks use Intel integrated graphics, not discrete parts.
He means macbook pro's, which use 8600s.
I'm fairly certain the Author was referencing the refresh of the Apple MacBook Pros which do include NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics controllers. Here is the link to the specs on Apple's site: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html.
"the display is a little disappointing, sporting a relatively low-resolution 1680x1050 17-inch screen."

Um.. the only res higher than that on a notebook is 1920x1200.. and if you look at the pixel pitch of the screen the 17inch 1680x1050 screen, its better than a 24" 1080P monitor.. 

I don't see how you could be disappointed at that.. especially when 2 8600 gt's will be hard pressed to hammer out good graphics at any kind of good resolution anyway..
MacBook Pro's have descrete gfx as an opition. they had ati 1600 in them and then nvidia 8 series.
Article should probably state MacBook Pro for picky people such as dan
Duh.... You get Sli 8600 GTs in Toshiba's Satellite X205 series in the US. 
AND Dell had a notebook with 8700 GTs in so the Dell is actually the faster notebook of the two...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro

MacBook Pro may have either ATI or NVIDIA GPU's.

8600 GT with 512 GDDR3. The top card on a PC until now.
It's available on newegg

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114400
Dan, the new macbooks have 8600m in them, a quick google and you'll see
Just to add - this real gaming monster is already on sale in germany - its named different than the japanese one. They call it Satellite X200 and is availabe in different flavours in retail shops.
http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

Or are you being arsily pedantic?
The Toshiba Satellite X200-219 is the equavalent spec UK machine.

It's already available....
In SLI you the amount of VRAM isn't the sum of the two cards, data is duplicated so you still only have a 256MB setup.