Asus intros Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2
MIGHTY ASUS has come forward with a mighty laptop design indeed. The W90VP is an 18.4-inch Full HD laptop, the first to feature a Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card, and will target seriously deep-pocketed gamers with itchy trigger fingers.
Asus' opening line is "Take to the streets in high gear with the W90..." let's hope they're talking about playing GTA IV and not actually taking the 5.2Kg behemoth out of the door.
The double whopper has some powerful goodies, but not top-of-the-range stuff. A quad-core Q9300 2.53GHz processor is coupled to a mobile X38 chipset (yes) and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 to provide the graphics muscle.
Despite being days away from launch, one forum legend at Xtremesystems - Kinc - has already benchmarked the thing and scored >20K marks in 3DMark 06. Considering the processor could limit overall performance while driving the cards, Kinc upped the FSB to 416MHz, and almost got to the magic 4GHz.
He shouldn't have any trouble playing Far Cry 2 on this one, especially if Kinc delivers on the promise of doing some LN2 cooling on that laptop, soon-ish. µ
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And they forgot to mention that the battery will last 10 minutes or less! And that in Idle mode. lol
The China Syndrome - via your groin!
THis is not intended for battery use, obviously, nvidia will have hard times to keep it up with this monster in the mobile market. Competition is good for customers. I cannot wait to get one of these.
It is a very interesting product in deed (4 core proc, X38M chipset and Radeon X2 mobile). But Tooo expensive for most users ($2,199.99) and anyway this is a desktop replacement system (not intended for out of the home/office use). Wana learn more?
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220503
Just why would anyone spend so much on a laptop to play games, when a desktop would be so much higher speced and faster.
I would say the main market for this is for client-site data simulations, e.g. oil deposits etc.
Using a quadcore and 2xGPU for processing, it probably pays for itself after one job in time savings.
Well I guess i will have to steal the lead shield from the dentists office lest my groin recieves a healthy dose of radiation from that beast. I can only imagine how hot it will get sitting on some poor chaps lap.