Eurcom's Racer, From The Outside
eSATA, HDMI, and power connectors sit alongside the Racer’s DVI-I output, which supplements its 15.6” non-glare LED display. If you can tolerate background reflections in the name of higher contrast ratios, you can upgrade to a glossy screen for an additional fee.
Gigabit Ethernet, dual USB 3.0 ports, one USB 2.0 connector, and IEEE-1394a are all made available next to a flash media drive on the Racer’s left edge.
To the user’s right are an optical drive, analog and digital audio jacks, and a second USB 2.0 port. Our Racer came equipped with the baseline 8x DVD rewriter, though Blu-ray writers and combo drives are available optionally.
The Racer retains the smooth front edge we like to see. Older solutions often ejected the optical drive tray into a user’s lap when bumped.
Whats with all the noise in the pictures?
Whats with all the noise in the pictures?
Sorry, the equipment probably isn't suited to shooting textured black objects.
It could've easily done away with a "slower" 45w i7 quad or even a 25w i7 dualcore CPU. This would help with the mobility bit of the laptop, making it last quite a bit longer. And a 9 cell battery wouldn't hurt either.
It is a semi desktop by its weight i.e 10 pounds. And performs as a desktop(with 23' ips display and ups) price less than it. In the world of growing market for tabs and ultrabooks the price of mobile cpu and gpu should be lowered in order to make these premium gaming laptops popular.
Great review!
It's good to see the battery life has increased notably compared to 990x.
Overall,it's a decent desktop replacement laptop.
i sort of want one , , whats not to like about a laptop that would crunch circles around my current desktop (amd athy 64 X2 5000+ black ed Oc'ed to 3ghz, 3 gigs ddr 2 pc 800 ram , and a radeon 5770)
sure my computer still runs most current game great at my monitors max res (1600x900) but damn , i'd take one of these laptops any day for that performance booste .. here's to dreaming of winning the builder's marathon though !
It would have been nice to at least see a little of the review cover things like: screen, keyboard, build quality, etc........
But good review on the graphics chip
Take a good look at the fans, notice some dust on them. Someone has been putting this laptop to use
The laptop maxes out at only 1920 X 1080?
The single GPU 6990M is overkill for that resolution and $2000 is a joke but hey atleast you can max everything.
Idiots out there will buy this.
The laptop maxes out at only 1920 X 1080?The single GPU 6990M is overkill for that resolution and $2000 is a joke but hey atleast you can max everything.Idiots out there will buy this.
That is the native res on the laptop. Which is the res most would game at on a laptop.....
And as for the price, find me a better performing laptop that is cheaper please.
Troll somewhere else
Thats a terrible price when a GTX 560M can handle just about everything at 1080P maxed.
1920 X 1080 isn't that hard to run, a lowly 5870M handles it well.
Whine somewhere else.
Thats a terrible price when a GTX 560M can handle just about everything at 1080P maxed.1920 X 1080 isn't that hard to run, a lowly 5870M handles it well.Whine somewhere else.
Actually, whining is what you're doing troll
Anyways, enough with the troll. Overall, the price level of this laptop seems excessive when you compare it to laptops such as G74 series and other more modest gaming laptops. But, there will always be a price premium for performance gains. As they always point out in these types of articles, it's a very niche market. In conclusion, nice review, great performance, and look forward to where our laptops will be 5 years from now
Yeah its a ripoff for $2000.
Don't like my complaint/opinion?
And price premium for performance gains?
Your limited to 1080P what more performance do you need?
It's a niche product, and just like Alienware's topshelf stuff and Razer's new laptop, its overpriced and it won't sell.
Anytime now someone reads something they don't like they toss out the troll word.
Obvious and lame.
The laptop maxes out at only 1920 X 1080?The single GPU 6990M is overkill for that resolution and $2000 is a joke but hey atleast you can max everything.Idiots out there will buy this.
And 6990M is like desktop 6870 in case you don't know.
Yeah thats common knowledge for mobile GPU's.
Take the 5870M.
Has 5770 specs...which is still enough to play all games at 1080P and most of them maxed or close to it.
Do an article about modding the laptop batteries. Take them apart. Replace the internal components of the batteries with something higher end found on the net or wherever if possible, wire it up, test and do a full blown how-to type article. Tom's intentially set an AMD processor on fire in the past, so maybe you could do a "what not to do" section of the article and set one on fire!
Could also be spinned on how to cheaply give new life to an aging laptop battery versus buying a new battery and price comparison of the parts vs new battery.
nothing new to see here. This model lacks a very important feature of a switchable gpu that could make the intel igp working tripling the battery life.
But it does minimize the number of variables when comparing the previously-reviewed 990X-based "notebook", which was the primary point of using it.
Tom's Hardware reviews notebooks on a voluntary basis, so if you'd like to see a company's newer product compared you should ask them to pony up.
Where is the Crysis benchmark Tom's ?
Tom's intentially set an AMD processor on fire in the past
Ah yes the conspiracy theories. I'm sure you're referring to the article where the site pulled the cooler off AMD and Intel processors to test thermal overload protection and the AMD processor UNEXPECTEDLY burned up. Because AMD said the system would shut down and that's what's EXPECTED. Intel's advantage was not supposed to be "doesn't burn", it's advantage was supposed to be "slows down rather than shutting off".
But go ahead, keep the conspiracy theories alive. Make sure the next time 1 out of 3 systems has an Nvidia graphics card you call Tom's Hardware out on being Nvidia-biased as well.