Origin Claims "World's First" with 3D Laptop Sporting SLI

Further info: the battery lasts just long enough to get to the login screen.

Not sure why they call them laptops. Portable desktops seems a more fitting title.

This is neat but so useless in real life. Fist off Flamming hot this thing must sound like a tornado with all it fans going full blast. And who wants to be staring at a little bitty 3d screen wearing those stupid looking glasses LOL. The power in this thing is awsome but eh.... I got a gaming laptop through work and its fun but unless I'm on the road it does not get much use sits in the corner and i game on a desktop.... Guess its personal prefrence but who wants to sit in fron of a laptop for hours on end playing games.

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I agree with you jdog ^^ How can all this power can be sustained by current near worthless lithium batteries that can barely power those tiny smartphones.... laptops with full x86 cpu and gpus... forget it.

Also comes with a bucket full of water to submerge it in while you use it...

Might be hard to play with all that steam coming over your screen though...

this is good for college kids since there is not much room for a desktop....portability, not so much

lol, login screen in 3D. lol These damn machines weight over 12 pounds allot of times. I am sure this will be somewhere around there as well. What is the point unless you game everywhere you go.

If it supports Optimus, where the 2 video cards can shut down and just has the on-die Intel graphics, then I'd expect 2 hours or more. But yeah otherwise, like 30 minutes i guess.

Ditch the 3D glasses and maybe my wallet will talk, until then ill stick to the Toshiba.

http://gizmodo.com/5818162/the-qos [...] -3d-laptop

I am hoping big with Origin. I expect this laptop to be decent, as it is the "first" SLI laptop. This is only the first, now we can expect to see improvment on battery life, heat, and weight. The most important thing is that it was done.

If you're trying to game with this kind of power on a laptop, you're doing it wrong. Save a couple grand and get a desktop...

Gaming laptops aren't as portable is the ideal, anyways... since you're gonna spend all your time plugged into a wall.

Didn't Alienware use to do SLi laptops?

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquire [...] ocks-games

Yea, SLI in laptops have been done for years. This is by no means the first unless they are able to do it in a form factor that still allows for some level of portability.

they should really throw in some nice military discounts, its the only group I know of that would have there eyes on this thing on a regular basis.

Military = limited space + long deployments to save up for expensive stuff.

2 580m in SLI for just a 1080p laptop way overkill and I'm a hardcore gamer but game at 2560 x 1600 with 2 gtx 580s 3gb versions. I also have a Asus G74 Sandy with a single 560 in it and it lasts about 90 min on high performance mode, cant imagine this lap lasting more than 30 min with those specs

Who cares about 3D? Its just a coverup for the fact that the graphics aren't getting better because of those stupid ()%*(&)#(*$#$ consoles. I want better graphics!!!! I'll be impressed when we get real holographic projectors. Pseudo 3D is still 2D in the end and nothing else.

Again, this is a Clevo chassis. Many, many manufacturers (some for cheaper prices) carry this same machine.

See: Sager, Eurocom, XoticPC..

Not to mention Clevo has been doing SLI for years. Had a Clevo branded SLI laptop rig many many moons ago in 2006.

Yeah... but this one has 3d. :|

Wonderful, a $3k laptop that supports this gimmick 3D that won't be around much longer.

I bet it'll play Crysis, though, if the battery doesn't die by time the computer boots up.

GTX 580>>>>>GTX 580M

I know there are some people who want to game on thier laptop and notebook, they will sell some but don't think it will replace my desktop anytime soon.

pretty sure SB-E doesn't have built-in gpu

Exactly, this is what everyone who comments on this is missing. 3D is a joke for gaming and movies, but people are dumb enough...er... I mean cutting edge enough to pay ridiculous amounts of money for it.

2 x GTX 580M = GTX580 x 1.125

I so agree with this that it's not even funny. The last 3-D movie I watched (Harold & Kumar Christmas) = the movie was decent - but the technology was an absolute joke in terms of the 3-D it actually used. It's a complete gimmick and I'd be surprised if game developers were taking advantage of this technology. I'm sure they think it's a joke.

if you are saying that 3d is a joke for gaming, you have never tried it on a proper setup.

3d in games is far different from movies, an entire second image is rendered from a different, adjustable, angle; in movies you are dealing with a fixed image.

Shutter glasses are the most comfortable way to view 3d as your head orientation has no affect on the 3d, and in a proper configuration there is little to no ghosting (or eye strain)

Parralax requires your head to remain perpendicular to the display, it is ok on my phone, but not desirable with a fixed display

polarization (circular anyway) is okay, but ghosting can still be an issue when your head is in motion.

I just have a hard time understanding the "if i have to wear glasses then i dont need 3d" argument. Are people so vain? you could make the same argument about headsets or any of 100 daily use items.

I guess what im saying is, you do not look cool out and about in public playing games; wearing some glasses to improve your personal experience isnt tipping the scales. Enjoy your self, and stop worrying about "gaming fashion".

For the record i agree about 80% of 3d movies are trash, though there are some gems.

I'd rather prefer it doesn't. I've read that Optimus is plagued with bugs, such as games defaulting on the IGP instead of the dedicated GPUs, and Nivida is nowhere close to patching them up.

This is LGA 2011, X79 system... NO on-die graphics. As for battery time, I think you are right. The X58 laptops probably use a little more power and they have 20-30 minute batteries.

Since it has no graphics on the CPU and it's highly unlikely that Origin thought to throw in a tiny integrated GPU on the motherboard, you're stuck with at least one of the 580ms running all the time. Besides, Optimus has problems every now and then anyway.

This laptop would be better than many desktops, but that's only including a desktop that costs a fraction of this price... At this price you could throw two or three GTX 580s, a huge PCIe SSD, and an X79 motherboard with 32GB or 64GB of high speed RAM, all with liquid cooling... Hard drives? you could grab two or four 2TB drives and raid them, hue capacity and good sequential performance there.

Get a freeware caching program and use some of the PCIe drive as a cache for the HDD RAID system, it would be a monster machine...

Wasn't Alienware first?

A lot of people on this thread are complete morons, and have no idea what the point of these kind of laptops are.

They are ment to be portal gaming PCs. You can go to a LAN party and in one small form factor you have a LCD Screen, your computer and a keyboard all able to fit into a small backpack.

They are NOT ment to be run unplugged (though they can for about 45 minutes to 1 hour if web browsing or what not). But I like to think of the battery as more of a built in UPS, so that your PC doesn't reboot on a powe flicker in the middle of gaming at a LAN (Happens occassionally if there isn't enough power for the amount of PCs hooked up in a single area)

I own a SAGAR and it's awesome for going to LANs on weekend without making a huge move with PC, monitor, keyboard, mouse, cables, etc.

If you buy one of these instead of a PC, and have no plans to do LANs or gaming on the go, you're an idiot. If you buy one thinking it's some sort of Nintendo 3DS or PSP that you can game out in public without power plug; you sir, are an idiot.

If you're always moving around (Job that has you living from one hotel to another on business trips, a deployed soldier, or an advid LAN partier) and you want real PC gaming on the go, and buy one of these, you sir are a winner.

GG

I've always wondered if there was ever a laptop that had a desktop GPU...