Clevo Announces Laptop With GeForce GTX 480M
This laptop is packing heat.
Earlier this week, Nvidia officially announced its Fermi part for notebooks – the GeForce GTX 480M. Today that mobile GPU is ready for order in Clevo's monster gaming laptop, the 17.1-inch DF900.
The GeForce GTX 480M GPU upgrade option costs $588 extra over the stock GTX 285M, and will set you back around $3,000 at the default configuration levels.
At the spec levels, it's definitely a desktop replacement and not something that's build for any sort of mobility – at least for not any length of time away from a power outlet.
Features:
- 17" Wide Viewing Angles WUXGA Active Matrix Display with Super Clear Glossy surface
- Intel® Core™i7 Extreme processors support
- Intel® Xeon™ E5540, X5550, X5560, W5580 processors support
- NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 285M 1GB, GeForce® GTX 480M 2GB or Quadro® FX 3800M 1GB graphics
- up to 12GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM Memory Supported
- Support up to 3 Hard Disk Drives
- Integrated Hardware SATA Raid 0,1, 5 Controller
- S-Video out jack for TV output & HDTV output
- 1 DVI Port, 1 VGA Port for external Monitors
- 4 Built-in Speakers
- 4 USB 2.0 Ports & 1 IEEE-1394 Ports
- Built-in 7-in-1 Card Reader
- Integrated 3MP Digital Video Camera
- Full Sized Keyboard with Numeric Keypad
- Intel High Definition Audio / 8 Channel external audio outputs supported
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Does power generator comes with it, or it is extra?
Doohoohoo, oh that slaps me on the knee.
calling it a "480"M is pure deception, since the performance will come nowhere near the 480 desktop version
I assume we can expect it to bench at around half the speed of the equivalent desktop version? Infact, if I was to make a bet, I'd say they'd just rebaged some older gen model. they don't have a point to prove with tessellation on laptops as much, and the extra heat all of that adds just REALLY can't be afforded in a laptop.
now that's hot! literally.
calling it a "480"M is pure deception, since the performance will come nowhere near the 480 desktop version
I do believe this is covered just about every single article that has to do with mobile GPUs.
Instant. Sterilisation.
... and that is the cause of global worming...
Ahhh!The first laptop that you're gonna regret having on your lap(coupled with half an hour battery life of course!)
Apple fanboys: Eat your heart out, because this isn't coming to your precious macbook anytime soon.
I can just imagine a laptop like this bringing back the power brick. Darn power adapter probably needed is just as heavy, if not larger than the laptop itself.
The money that u would use to buy this system could have been used to buy me two AMD gaming desktops
Weight?? I'd love to know that feature!

Weight?? I'd love to know that feature!
trust me
It will only weigh as much as a human adult
You need to buy one of them small home-depot window units to mount to it.
I don't care if this laptop weigh heavy or cost big as long as it wont heats up Un bearable.
wtf? why does it have a vga AND a dvi and do not have a hdmi connection?
What about Optimus?
Weazel News....this just in, a small company named Clevo has been accused of developing nuclear weapons and selling them to pc gamers worldwide......BREAKING NEWS!!! apparently some one just opened one of those laptops and an entire neighborhood was wiped out!!!....Ironically Fallout Vegas was preinstalled....this is Xantek24 with 9am Weazel News...
"fermi" and "mobile" can be used together?
a note to consumers, please do not use our product on a wooden desk. Failure to do so may have significant consequences.
Apple fanboys: Eat your heart out, because this isn't coming to your precious macbook anytime soon.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/m [...] 10206.html
... no need to...
HAHAHA You can get a Asus G73 with a HD 5870, which plays Crysis better than the 480, for only $1199 at Best Buy. Fermi could not fail any harder.
^ Yep!
And that beast has dual hhds so you can put in an SSD, and 4 ram slots.
Heh... Is will my lapy melt when I play games?
What! This sounds like a terrible idea! With the GTX's thermal envelope and power requirements...oi. Save yourself the money and burning hands and just build yourself a desktop.
Finally a laptop for Eskimos.
calling it a "480"M is pure deception, since the performance will come nowhere near the 480 desktop version
Yes both ATI and Nvidia are doing this but at least it is based on the 400 series core and not just a rebranded G92 with 200 series label.
For the griller on the go...
HAHAHA You can get a Asus G73 with a HD 5870, which plays Crysis better than the 480, for only $1199 at Best Buy. Fermi could not fail any harder.
I can't believe anyone was guilable enough to give you the thumbs up for mentioning that weak solution. Mobility 5870 is after all a desktop 57xx GPU. One that gets stomped on by a G92 GPU, no less!
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,2615.html
As for playing Crysis...um... http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 615-9.html
Epic failure
I can't believe anyone was guilable enough to give you the thumbs up for mentioning that weak solution. Mobility 5870 is after all a desktop 57xx GPU. One that gets stomped on by a G92 GPU, no less!
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,2615.html
As for playing Crysis...um... http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 615-9.html
Epic failure
Yes, everyone is aware that laptop graphics cards are not as powerful as their corresponding desktop cards wearing the same numbers. The mobility 5870 is somewhere between a desktop 5750 and 5770, and the gtx 480m is comparable to a desktop gtx 465. Nvidia has of course been the most deceptive, albeit the lesser of two evils. They rebranded 8800's for how many years?
And as for your links, they aren't anywhere close to being an accurate comparison of two completely identical machines playing games with the only variable being the mobility 5870 and the gtx 480m cards. If, however, you visit http://www.notebookcheck.net/Compu [...] 849.0.html, and select only the m5870 and gtx480m, you'll see that their performance is pretty much identical in real world gameplay, with the two cards winning different benchmarks of different games by extremely tight margins, but mostly being pretty much even. My point still stands that the $1199 Asus G73 from Best Buy is the most bang for the buck when it comes to top end (yet accessible) gaming laptops. The people who thumbed me up know that it would be rediculous to pay $2915 for the same performance. Go configure this laptop with a 500GB HDD, 6GB RAM, wireless and bluetooth, and with a gtx480m, so that it's the same performance as the G73, and you'll see $2915 as the price. Please tell my why you're defending a machine that is equal to another laptop that sells for $1716 less. I could literally buy TWO G73's and still have $517 in my pocket, for the same price as this crap laptop from Clevo.
Methinks my point is still valid and you wouldn't be defending this $3000 laptop unless you were getting paid to.