With its sleep settings disabled, the Eurocom Racer’s Core i7-2960XM pulls less than half of the idle power seen from the X7200’s Core i7-990X. Although its power advantage drops below 50% under a full load, the mobile processor still looks great in comparison.

Battery conditioning alters Battery Eater Pro run times slightly, so expect a margin of error a few minutes in either direction. What we can see is that the second GPU in our X7200 CrossFire configuration idles down almost completely in this test.

With nearly as much battery power available and hardware that exacts roughly half of the power consumption, it's no surprise to see Eurocom's Racer run almost twice as long on a charge compared to the X7200.
Incidentally, its smaller adapter also takes longer to charge the attached battery compared to the X7200.

A slight lead in game performance brings the Racer up to 90% its heavier competition's average performance.
The addition of CrossFire requires just enough CPU overhead to reduce the X7200’s productivity performance by around 2%.

A modest reduction in performance combines with a big advantage in power consumption to give the Racer a 67% lead over Eurocom's X7200. Game performance improvements favoring the two-GPU CrossFire configuration boost X7200 overall efficiency by a far smaller amount.
It's good to see the battery life has increased notably compared to 990x.
Overall,it's a decent desktop replacement laptop.
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 !
But good review on the graphics chip
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
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
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.
And 6990M is like desktop 6870 in case you don't know.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I really wish you had picked apart the meat of the comment as far as battery modication vs replacement.