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07-21-2006, 09:47 AM #1
Laptop gone wild
Time was a laptop was built for portability and battery life. Smaller was better, light even more so. Somewhere in all this, they started trying to outdo the "next guy", and this behemoth was born.
$3500, 20+" screen...8 speakers and subwoofer, huge storage, etc.
Wonder if it comes with a hand truck for carrying it?
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07-21-2006, 10:03 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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Wow! It should come with a gym membership too!
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07-21-2006, 10:29 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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That.is.a.beast.
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07-21-2006, 10:34 AM #4Managed Hosting Expert
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Interesting, expensive though, I'd much rather stick $2000 in my pocket and buy an Optiplex then glue it all together.
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07-21-2006, 10:51 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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I saw this the other day when browsing for server specs and a new PC... I actually quite like the design of it - its quite a fairly decent PC for gaming, multimedia etc I actually quite like it.
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But it's a laptop at heart I guess. This machine is nuts when you think about the fact that it's billed as a laptop
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07-21-2006, 12:02 PM #7Aspiring Evangelist
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I customized it a little and it came out at 8500$
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07-21-2006, 12:17 PM #8Newbie
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that's freakin nuts..trying to improve on the basic laptop is a good idea but i think dell went overboard with this..people are wanting small and sleek in their products (along with more performance)..this wont last long at all..
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07-21-2006, 12:45 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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It's more of a mobile compact desktop unit than a laptop.
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07-21-2006, 01:06 PM #10Junior Guru
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For the very rich people I suppose (at least for now)
It looks nice, but if I want a laptop, I buy a laptop, and not a mix between a desktop and a laptop.zenndex - custom website design & unique templates- zenndex.com
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Wow. That's nuts. I will say this, I love that flash animation they use. The smoke behind is pretty cool. Might have to get "inspired" in the future and try something like that. Very nice.
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07-21-2006, 02:00 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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Might need to start working out early if you plan on hauling that thing around....
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07-21-2006, 02:53 PM #13Nothing to see move along.
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Hardly a laptop more a portable desktop.
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07-21-2006, 03:12 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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lugable anyone?
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07-21-2006, 03:29 PM #15Web Hosting Guru
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It's not so bad when it's folded up. Check out the Design->Exterior part.
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I just picked up a 17" laptop (25W 2.2ghz amd64 turion, 2GB DDR400, 120GB IDE drive, CDRW/DVDRW) for around $1500, its got power efficiency (~2.5 - 3.5 hours of realistic runtime depending on the task), a beautiful bright screen, 4 speakers, and a "subwoofer" (ok, so how is a 2" speaker a subwoofer? You've got me!), and weighs in at around 7.1 pounds.
To me this seems like a great deal, sure its a bit bigger then most (due to the 17" widescreen display), but the last laptop I owned (Pentium 133, 16mb ram, and a 1GB hdd) weighed in about the same.
I'd have to vote this into the "portalble desktop" category though, as I cant picture anyone sitting on a bus and using that for example.Myles Loosley-Millman - admin@prioritycolo.com
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