Novatech punts GTX280, GTX260 and Core i7 in notebooks
NOVATECH WILL apparently be the UK's first e-tailer to put Nvidia's GTX280M and GTX260M graphics (and Intel's Core i7) into a laptop.
Bunged into an attractive-looking rebranded Clevo laptop Nvidia's GTX260M will be just one of the features in the 15.4-inch X70, based on a brand spanking new Intel Centrino 2 processor and sporting DDR3 memory.
As well as providing a blisteringly fast gaming experience, the X70 also comes Cuda enabled – for those that way inclined – and offers PureVideo HD technology, which should look pretty damn attractive on its WSXGA+ screen.
The notebook also sports Firewire, external SATA, HDMI, DVI, Bluetooth and 802.11n wireless networking.
Nvidia's GTX280M will be part and parcel of the X80 GTX Extreme Sports a sleek 17-inch widescreen affair with 1920x1200 resolution. The X80 GTX Extreme also boasts "the world's first" mobile DirectX 10 graphics chip, for the die-hard gamer.
The GTX280M also finds its way into the four-cored Intel Core i7-powered X90. With a whopping 17-inch display, this beast of a laptop boasts three 500GB 7200rpm or three 64GB SSD hard drives in RAID 5 configuration, 4GB of DDR3 memory, a Blu-ray reader DVD/RW multi burner and 802.11n wireless LAN.
Novatech's website is currently listing the X70 GTX from £1,321, the X80GTX Extreme from £1,723 and the X90 GTX from £2,356, with the SSD pro version at £2,643. µ
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Hi Sylvie,
It is not the GTX260/280. It's the 260M/280M. Ppl may think this actually is based on the gt200 design, when it is a 3 yr old tech, based on the G92. The Gtx260M is the old 9800M GTX, just rebagded.
This is exactly why nVidia renamed the old G92's; To confuse ppl into believing it was something new.
Go have a chat with Charlie :) .
i FULLY agree with OP, Dudler, this is EXACTLY why Nv is respinning their cards... Feckin bastards. ALMOST had me going there for a while, thinking "What the fuck? The GTX280 i huge, how did they squeeze it into a laptop?"
But.. As it turns out, was just the respinned, 9800s, no the 8800s...
Yeah, checking them out shows that they are all just packed with the old rebranded cards. With the rather lacking 128 shader cores. A real shame since I've been waiting for a decent laptop GPU to program parallel applications on. I guess I'll have to wait *another* generation.
Nvidia are really dropping the ball.
Missing the point somewhat here!
While there was a bit of rebranding between 8800M GTX and 9800M GT, these parts (albeit G92) are actually die shrinks (55nm) plus they should be damn faster than the previous gen!
I personally think the 'branding' relfects the step up in performance just as you'd expect it to.
World's first mobile dx10 video card?
You know I could have sworn that Asus recently released the W90V (18.4inch notebook with a Radeon 4870X2 mobile.
And of course Alienware's with their mobile 3870's = all dx10 cards..
It doesn't.