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Retailer Planning Laptops With Intel Core i7 Chips
An anonymous reader writes "The Canadian PC retailer Eurocom is planning to ship a 12-pound laptop with Intel's Core i7 chip, which might go down well with deep-pocketed geeks. The Core i7 was designed with desktop computers and servers in mind; later members of the Nehalem chip family are planned to address portables. The 17" notebook's price, not yet announced, will certainly be in excess of $5,000."
... that's not supposed to be put on your lap, unless you are sure you don't want to have offspring. Given that this is designed for the /. kind of geek, the question of offspring is probably not too much of a problem anyway :)
The Commodore SX-64, also known as the Executive 64, or VIP-64...
Funny, the name implies it was for business use and yet the picture shows it with a pair of joysticks...
The laptop is 12 pounds: two pounds for the laptop, ten pounds for the batteries.
... it is a compact electric (gonad) cooker. :-)
All that power will prove being useless because of constraints on the PC architecture.
Because of I/O bottlenecks, on a gaming laptop with 64-bit dual core system and 2+ GB RAM, burning a DVD while copying a file from disk to disk (SATA) will kill the system to low responsiveness.
In theory the CPU is powerful enough to juggle the I/O requests (SATA, nvidia, keyboard and mouse) with the actual computing things in a manner that the user won't experience low responsiveness a-la pre-1990.
In the practice all that power is weasted, unless you run tasks with low I/O needs.
Maybe Computers will never be as intelligent as Humans.
For sure they won't ever become so stupid. [VR-1988]
The laptop is 12 pounds: two pounds for the laptop, ten pounds for the batteries.
Which gives you an autonomy of 1+t hours; being "t" the amount of time you're able to keep your cycling power over 1000 watts.
...enough so to afford a Sherpa to carry the thing?
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
a temporary decrease in fertility is a feature
Only if the girl's birth control pill fails to work, and in that case the after-oops pill will work just as fine.
I don't buy it as an argument for frying my balls. But feel free to do what you want to your own testicles :)
There's a spec for that. It's called "micro-ATX".
Perhaps a bit off topic, but why is a Canadian retailer named Eurocom? Some identity crisis going on here? Of course, planning on sticking an i7 in a laptop does seem to indicate some mental instability...
THe good thing is, if you leave your lights on, you can use the battery to start your truck.
12 pounds is quite cheap for a laptop of this spec. But I expect once it reaches the UK, it'll be more like 24 pounds. :)
I know the dollar has taken a hammering lately, but its not really that bad yet is it?
£12? Bargain. Bet it's heavy tho.
Sorry
"Welcome to our world. We are the wasted youth. And we are the future too." Yes, I know these are stupid lyrics.
A 20 lb laptop would still be lighter than the cases of beer I carried in college.
Fixed that for you.