Eurocom Shipping First Hexacore i7-980X Laptop
Eurocom yesterday announced that it will ship the world's first six core notebook.
Eurocom is known for cramming the latest technology into small-ish form factors; it was the first to offer a Core-i7 notebook, for example. The D900F Phantom i7 was a mobile workstation and featured a 17-inch display, Intel's Core i7 processer and X58 chipset as well as Nvdia's G280 GPU. The entire thing weighed a backbreaking 11.9 lbs. Not exactly something you could throw into your briefcase and take home in the evenings but it was mobile nonetheless.
Today Eurocom is offering another "it's-only-as-portable-as-you-are-strong" notebook. This one boasts Intel's six core i7-980X Extreme Edition or Xeon W5680 and is called the Eurocom D900F Panther. The mobile workstation features Nvidia Quadro FX OpenGL graphics, up to 24 GB of DDR3 and up to 2.6 TB of storage (across four HDDs). You've also got the usual bells and whistles like Ethernet, HDMI, eSATA, DVi Dual Link ports as well as a 17" WUXGA LCD display and full size keyboard.
Again, this is one hefty machine. Measuring 15.8" x 11.9" x 2.05" the Panther weighs in at "under 12lbs." As for price (you probably don't want to know), the base model rings up at just over $3,000. Yikes. More on Eurocom.
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Two words word: Power hog
Awesome, it booted in only... aw, battery's dead.
They keep acting like Eurocom designs these....they are just the reseller (which most people hate actually) that Clevo lets sell these.
Clevo is doing the hard part not Eurocom
Even with a twelve cell battery, that things only going to last at most an hour (in power saver mode). Still, this is more of a "desktop replacement" then a "laptop." Anyone who can afford the $3000 price tag can afford to have a power cord in every port, so to speak.
12lbs huh? Almost like carrying around a bowling ball. But if you drop this thing, you may only ever get 1 strike.
So now you can do 2 more things at the same time compared to 4 things. Neat!
That's not a laptop, it's a portable workstation.
I like the specs with 1 exception. Who in their right mind is building laptops like this with out a Mobile ATI 58xxx Eyefinity edition card.
Every laptop I look at; at this level is using Nvidia's re-branded 5 year old (
This thing is meant to be a workstation, not a gaming laptop. You don't need 6-cores and 2.6TB of space for gaming. This thing is for CAD and junk like that. It's still way overkill for a laptop.
I liked to see the words, Open GL. That is the way and in HTML 5 too. Break the Direct X monopoly.
The perfect laptop for the design engineer on the go. Design in AutoCad in your hotel room on your way to the engineering conference.
This is like a laptop-- that you have to keep plugged in!
Why put a battery in this beast anyway? I suppose it might serve as an UPS...enough time to save your work during a power outage...maybe.
Looks like people forgot what is "Desktop Replacement". Just because is a laptop, it doesn't mean it was designed for chatting at Starbucks. This is made for you to leave you workstation from one place to another without caring about a ton of wires.
Awesome, it booted in only... aw, battery's dead.
Actually specification misses, this laptop has 4 attachment of batteries
i just wonder how many people actually just buy these damn things
the 3000$ start price include a GTX280M, not a workstation card.
You can have a mobile 5870 with no penalty on the price, sort of.
If you want a workstation card, add 480$ for the FX 2800 and 1080$ for the fx 3800.
You can call it "Transportable Desktop".
Even with a twelve cell battery, that things only going to last at most an hour (in power saver mode). Still, this is more of a "desktop replacement" then a "laptop." Anyone who can afford the $3000 price tag can afford to have a power cord in every port, so to speak.
I think the term server replacement should be more proper than the traditional desktop replacement naming.
It's made with bits of real panther, so you know it's good. :-)
Is that a nuclear reactor cooling tower I see on the back...?
As nice as it is, I like Sager's 18.4" beast.
They're bound to offer it with two 5970m's eventually. =D
Kind of ugly though.
The entire thing weighed a backbreaking 11.9 lbs.
Backbreaking??? its a laptop! that's more like ball crushing
It's not a tumor!
People, stop complaining about battery life. The bulge on the bottom is CLEARLY a gas tank, come on use your brains...
nvidia 480, probably, still uses more power and runs hotter then that beast lappy
You only found this now Jane? It's been on their site for at least two weeks.
3k would go a lot further for desktop, and its not like ur going to be lugging this around to ur lectures
I think the term server replacement should be more proper than the traditional desktop replacement naming.
Nope, they actually have a mobile server laptop on their product list, a different model number.
The options for what you can put in a laptop, with Eurocom, are way more than anyone else I've come across. Granted the size and weight are accordingly sizable, but what do you expect, if you want 4 HDs in a RAID, desktop extreme edition CPU, two video cards (perhaps not this model), and crap loads of RAM.
I don't get it. If you are a 3d designer or work with video, you need bigger screen.
If you don't work with 3d and video, you don't need 6 cores.
Who is buying those "portable workstations"?