The Core i7 Laptop With Dual 17'' 1080P LCDs

if it wasn't for the fact that there a GTS 250M gpu inside of it instead of something a little more modern, i would take it.

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Nice. By the time you get it booted up the battery would be half dead.

Definitely a niche machine. Most people will see no true benefit to having this extra screen space on the go, especially for the high price.

This is great for programming/debugging and also working in graphic design on the go...

I cared, until I saw the CPU and GPU options.

As a CAD tech / project manager, this would be great for client presentations or onsite work. I agree that no really massive work could be done but site sketches, or the nuts and bolts presentations would be easier.

This would be really handy for those times when you need to remote into a server (or 2) while doing work on the laptop locally.

This is not a laptop, this a mobile workstation: arguing about battery duration is pointless.

But true enough, while the included GPU is enough for most uses, it would have been nice to have the opportunity to get a bigger one, for video rendering & so on.

Same goes for HDD: no SSD for such an high end machine? Really? A combo SSD + HDD would have been sweet.

a high end option using a low end approach = fail

there are a lot of negative people out there...i think its pretty cool and like anything else some people will say this is exactly what they have been looking for.

not for me. if i need 2 screens, i'd bring along 2 laptops. a bit heavier but how many times do you need 2 full 17" screens on the road?

Bet the battery last 30 minutes.

Its a $2400 that's quite acceptable to even me. Having enough screen real estate has no price.

it needs to have a stronger gfx component, a GTS 250M doesn't really cut it anymore.
that's very disappointing as well as the price being slightly high.
and the battery life is what again..?

2 Screens.
2 Year old hardware.
2 Thousand dollars.

no sandy bridge? 250m GTS? wut? lol ,try 2630QM and 460m-560m at least...

Seems like a good idea to build on?

Well, on the idea of performance for value, the hardware is probably fairly placed for the money, cause probably woud cost more for more, or to do more. In terms of gaming, its hard to find one with the idea of two screens anyways unless you find the interest of course, but probably hard founf against just a company release. Like im sure a GTS 250M is still twice as fast as my computer alone almost. Maybe more towards Graphics side of course, but it. Would be able to run some intersting games twice over.

Battery life yes probably the one issue of it all, of course, but still. Laptobs i dont think are the same, hence the GTS 250(m) rather that mtters or not, who knows. Could just be there for something different.

Sounds like a Mac. But at least they give you two screens.

This is a workstation, not a gaming rig. having 2 screens that close to the keyboard would drive a person mad being so close to the inside bezels of each monitor. Subtract the bezels and it'd be pretty sweet.

On the same vein, does anyone know of a truly portable LCD (ruggedized, with built in cover and compacting stand)? Thats really the thing this tries to solve. Why make a laptop and be constantly chasing CPU/GPU specs when you can just focus on the screen? If they made a compact display that was about the same form factor as a laptop it would be fantastic.

It would be the perfect power-rig for road warriors (not unlike myself) who find long hours hunched in front of a laptop in a hotel room to be quite tiring. One (or more) nice big screen and a way to raise it to appropriate eye level would be absolutely stunning.

Is it just me, or is the screen on the left matte and the screen on the right glossy? Why oh why do they continue to make Glossy screens? I mean, maybe visual developers, artists, etc.. might like glossy, but for 99% of computer users out there, matte just makes more sense.

And why does the more expensive computer have a slower processor? The cheaper one has a [dual-core?] Core i5 running at 2.66GHz, while the more expensive one has a quad-core running at 1.76GHz. I understand more cores means more work at a single time, but in what instance is two more cores going to balance out the fact that you are running 1 Gigahertz slower?

I'm sorry, but this article isn't complete without a picture of Xzibit laughing.

They have them. They are called 'Projectors'...

OK so people are bitching about the CPU / GPU, but the idea in principle is fantastic, they can always beef up the componants in later revisions, don't forget the first iPod compared to the most recent is basically a pile of junk.

The next thing they need to do to get a bit more on the sales is to make the screen bezel-less where they meet and enjoy ultra widescreen gaming in 3840 x 1080, great for driving or flight sim.

LOL.

This is nice. But it's not $3000 worth of nice. What I have now ($250 laptop, $300 desktop, 2 monitors, HD5770 video) cost me less than $1000 to buy over the last two years and a few months and I have no need to spend triple that in one shot and not get the best of everything. Where's the i7-2720QM? Where's the GTX480M or GTX485M? Where's the backlit keyboard my wife has on her $700 Latitude E-Series? C'mon, you can do better than this. Or at least sell it for $1300-$1600 and have something to trump $1000 Toshibas and Sonys.

businessmen who deal with stocks, they are use to at least dual monitor setups, if not quad or more.

there are allot of professions outside of pure tech were multiple monitors are standard too.




when was the last time that you were anywhere, for an extended time, as a professional, where you were so far away from an outlet that you couldn't plug in? laptops aren't meant to run off the batteries forever. they are meant to get you from one place to another with the same pc setup. sure, some can last long periods of time without being plugged in, my mom complains CONSTANTLY that the laptop we have has to be plugged in, even though she is never more then 3 feet from an outlet, and the coard is so long it can easily fit anywhere without doing anything special to accommodate it.




no one is going to do professional video rendering on a laptop. the dual screen already costs that much as a minimum, would you sacrifice some performance to get the price a hell of allot cheaper? an ssd would be nice, but wow would that have cost allot more.




in my experience it can make all the difference, im just assuming this wasn't built for people who look for power, so applications intended to run on it wouldn't benefit from faster cpu, but from more.

Please do triple eyefinity!

This laptop isn't so much to be used when you travel from A to B. It is to be used _at_ A and B. Think of it as a mobile desktop with some battery capabilities.