Toshiba Launches Laptop With Three GPUs

arcticstoat writes to mention that Toshiba's latest line of high-powered laptops has three GPUs included. Both the Qosmio X305-Q706 and Q708 come with an integrated GeForce 9400M for day-to-day processing tasks but have a pair of GeForce 9800Ms in SLI that kick in when you need the extra horsepower. "The [Qosmio] X305-Q706 costs $1,999 US (£1,257) in the US, although we haven't seen any UK pricing on the laptops yet. The system comes with a 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo P8400 and 4GB of RAM, while the costlier X305-Q708 comes with a quad-core 2.53GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9300 CPU."

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[thepotoo]

But who wants/needs the extra weight and expense and unupgradability of an SLI card you're almost never going to use?

Who would ever want more than ~32 megs of video memory in a laptop? No one in their right mind uses laptops for games, and you're just going to get burned in another year or two when the next generation of video cards comes out.

This is a very niche product at best. Now, if this were a laptop that you could somehow upgrade with a full-sized SLI setup (using a dock or something) that might be interesting (RAM and processor last forever, mine are currently 4 years old and doing just fine even on games that recommend duel cores, while video cards need to be upgraded every couple of years to keep playing at max settings).