I wonder how long it will last under load? Not to mention if you know anything about Lithium Ion batteries, draining them puts strain on it and shortens the lifespan and capacity.

No thanks.

Mock it if you like but they have the one hour laptop market all to themselves right now.
Come on AMD, we need your one hour laptop to compete with this!

Sweet. That is about the same as my 4 year old Dell XPS lappy with no replacement battery. These are more aptly named portable computers, as they really are not meant to be used away from the wall outlet.

It should probably have the graphics cards on that list too...

It's just a Clevo derivative notebook. Generally they carry SLI 9800M GTX's. The units carrying the two cards that don't carry i7 (but instead Intel quad cores from the desktop series) also only have about an hour battery life - clearly, the battery life isn't limited by the CPU. This article is kind of misleading.

How is this a Core i7 laptop when it comes with a 2 or 4 core Xeon? There are no 2-core i7s yet, none the less nehalem Xeons. And what kind of market is this serving? It weighs 11 pounds, comes with a Xeon processor, and no discrete graphics? I was thinking it might be for LAN parties, but a Xeon and no GPU means this is sort of a portable server, but why?

that's no laptop, it's a monster, raid 5! 11.9 pounds, by the time you put it in a bag, ect it will be 15 pounds. i bet it really doesn't even last 1 hour.

@roofus: Lawl, that made my day.

@jsloan: Tell me about it! BEHOLD, THE BEHEMOTH! I actually never thought of that. Spec sheets and press releases are usually overly optimistic about how long the battery lasts. If anyone "invests" in one of these, let me know how long it lasts!

No thanks for me too.
I'm not into gaming on a laptop.
I wouldn't buy it, even if it only costs $900!

Vista users like things like this

It really isn't a laptop. Its an all-in-one workstation/server with a built in 1 hour UPS. Sounds reasonable to me - after all, have you ever heard of a laptop with RAID 5 or 8 GB RAM?

Desktop laptop? Hmm just like a imac but with a lot more power.

But does the power brick come with fans? THAT's the question.

with those specs i'm even surprised they listed an hour. most desktops on backup battery (ups) barely last 15 minutes and those batteries are gigantic!

This is total overkill, why 8gb? 6GB would have been just fine, and 1.5TB storage? Why do you need 3 hard drives? I think there just a bunch of tards who just got bored and decided to cram a core i7 in a box.

I wonder if they include a portable wall with this as well, 1 hour is pointless.

Intel, what happened with performance per Watt in i7?

wow, apparently nobody understands the purpose of this workstation. its not for gaming, its not for casual use, its for 3D professionals who need to be able to move their workstations around. the battery life is almost an afterthought. they would always plug it in to get maximum performance. i work in the video game industry, and i have a mobile workstation. weighs about 10lbs, 30min battery, but the thing rips through 3D applications when i need to work away from home or the office. so before you all slam it, have an understanding of its purpose.

This is my daily laugh - but you know 5 years from now these specs will have been streamlined, RAID5 SSD in a single drive, etc. and the battery life will be standard 2-3 hours with actual use. Maybe more with fuelcell battery burning rubbing alcohol

My second daily laugh was RiotSniperX's "tard" I haven't heard that in forever, it's the perfect word for this Frankensteinian machine.

they should market it as, "with built-in 1hour UPS"

My last Acer laptop with the nVidia 7300GO graphics lasted about one hour on battery. I used it primarily as a workstation, as well. The battery was used mainly to switch from one power source to another. If this one lasts an hour, it's actually impressive.

Where are the tripple channel DDR3 SODIMMs? That is like the main selling point of the i7! /s

This is a great move in the right direction. The whole point is to have a portable workstation with all the files sync up and ready to go full speed anytime you plug it in. A machine that is not always giving the hour-glass or spinning disc to wait while it juggles things behind the scenes while you twidle your thumbs. I was asking my custom GeekBox people for this type of machine just six months months ago. Portability in workstations is everything in today's world. With this box you can take it all with you and be ready to rock without transfering files and reconfiguring your work. I always carry extra batteries when on the road anyway. The need is so obivious, I can't believe that others do not see it. Weight and battery life are no matter if you can work from anywhere anytime. Make the chasis and cooling and my Geeks will buy it and built a custom unit for me.

Again it is being advertised as a portable workstation. 1.5TB isn't that much if you're dealing with let's say:

Professional Video/Audio -- and I emphasize PROFESSIONAL.

Military -- imagine them lugging around a CPU/MONITOR/MOUSE/KEYBOARD to setup camp. Also check out Blu-108 doesn't correlate with this reply but it's a nice weapon.

Plus, when people say they do work on the go, doesn't always necessarily mean they go to Starbucks and type reports.

With all the things this has I'm actually surprised it even gets 1 hour.

Portability doesn't mean it's meant to work away from an outlet. It just means it's easy to carry around, which in this case a workstation in a 12 pound package. Not a bad thing.

Who would carry around a laptop with only 1 hour battery life? Seriusly, that's just stupid.

@ dingumf

Obviously a professional who doesn't care about battery life but instead performance. If you were a professional would you buy a 6 year old 1GHZ laptop with 10 hour battery life? No because although it would be ultra small and portable the performance is dog $&^%.

If you don't use 3D, CAD, image or video manipulation programs, you really shouldn't be looking at this machine because its not meant for you.

Yeah, gotta say I may be the target audience for this machine as well - 1 hour is kinda funny but I have to work in 3 locations and the machines my company gives me to compile our large apps on are old P4s with 1 gig of ram. Seriously. I come busting in with this bad boy and everyone on the floor will be drooling. Not something I'm going to take on vacation to watch movies with or head to the coffee shop to blog on but this would kick some serious butt as a development platform I can haul around easily.

so the point is.. bigger means faster.. bigger means.. lower battery life.. but isnt there a point when bigger means bad? lol.

if your a pro though you can get your exercize while moving around! so after a long day u can get up work your arms . maybe do some bar curls with the laptop.. lol.

Im a it-instructor, and deliver classes in both Microsoft and VMware. Very often I deliver my classes at the customer premises, and carry around a HP 8510 workstation, which with 4gb of memory is just powerful enough to run the virtual machines I need. I would love this baby, would let me run several more virtual machines at the same time, thus enabling me to deliver better education. I never run my laptop on battery. This machines will be excellent, but is of course not meant for a broad audience.

When I bought my Alienware M7700 with the (at the time) top of the line 3.8 GHz P4 processor I actually asked them if they could replace the battery with a 3rd large capacity hard drive. The answer was no but the point is I couldn't care less about battery life. I do professional CAD, GIS, and programming. I want a single machine that will get the job done and that I can carry around with me in one container that is less than 40 pounds. In other words, I don't want to sacrifice power for portability. I think the new Eurocom Machine is great.

As to bigger being bad, yes there is that point. If I cannot physically lift the machine it is to big. I can't think of a speed that is to fast. I am personally looking for one that has the answer BEFORE I ask. I can't think of a capacity that is to great. I was really impressed with the capacity of the V'ger in the 1st Star Trek movie that contained a working digital model of the know universe. When we meet those specs then it will be big.

incase of power failure! :-D hahaha

I agree with all of those who can see a definite market for this. I am a graphic artist and programmer. When I get home from my day job programming, I like to do graphic work, but prefer to unwind on the couch to do it as I have been sitting at a desk all day long.

My laptop is always plugged in. Basically, the battery is there so I can put the thing in standby and make it to my next location.

I also used to use a Dell XPS 17" monster for a previous job. I would work all day on it, then close it up, jump on the bus and the hour battery life was just enough to make my bus ride home (same thing on the way to work also), then back to the wall plug I go. So not only have I done an extra 2 hours of work on the way to and from home, I also now have all of my stuff with me, opened up, ready to go, exactly where I left it. How can you not agree that this is much more useful than leaving all your stuff on a desktop somewhere eg. at the office, and then transferring all the little bits and pieces that you need to take with you, every day. Trust me, it gets tedious. And then add on top of that the time and hassle of syncing all that data back up again. I lose productivity from not being able to take my work with me.

Before someone points out removable storage/portable HDD's, quite often in programming/graphic work, you cannot work permanantly from one of those. Plus I can stare at it on the bus all I want, but that doesn't seem to get my work done.

If I were to use a less powerful, lighter, less battery hungry machine, I would have lost days maybe weeks of productivity due to slower load times and much slower programming compilation times, especially as, being a programmer, I have a million tools open all at once. This is exactly the same as working in a graphic art capacity, probably much more so. And for what benefit? So I can sit for hours watching a movie without being plugged in? I'll get a cheap netbook too for that if I ever feel inclined to waste time. Seriously, I have rarely ever felt hampered by a short battery life, but I have all too often felt the pinch of poor performance.

As far as too much storage goes, I remember once coming home with a ridiculously expensive 40gb HDD (back when 10gb was the sweet spot) and saying that it would last me for ages. How could I possibly use '40 whole gigs of creamy goodness' (unfortunately, those were my exact words). 3 months later it was full and I was burning CD after CD of stuff, which just ended up getting lost, probably down the back of the couch. I now agree that there will never be a point when I have enough storage space. The only issue is, when it crashes, where do I put it all and how long will that take to do? But that is a problem for the future, as by that time, the recovered data will hopefully take up less than a 10th of the drive that is available at the time.

I will be hesitant to ever buy a powerful desktop again because the mobility productivity benefits far outweigh the slight power increase in being stuck at a desk. And forget lugging a 10 tonne lump of metal around. It is, in almost all cases, unpractical.