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Retailer Planning Laptops With Intel Core i7 Chips

Posted by kdawson on from the can-you-say-luggable dept.

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."

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  1. A laptop... by 2Bits · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... 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 :)

    1. Re:A laptop... by WSOGMM · · Score: 4, Funny

      ... 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 :)

      Oh yeah? Well, your laptop is so fat that a...

    2. Re:A laptop... by AuMatar · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you're single and still getting some, a temporary decrease in fertility is a feature not a bug.

      --
      I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
  2. Re:Just plain silly by Yvan256 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The laptop is 12 pounds: two pounds for the laptop, ten pounds for the batteries.

  3. It's not a laptop ... by bigsteve@dstc · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... it is a compact electric (gonad) cooker. :-)

  4. Re:Just plain silly by mgblst · · Score: 4, Funny

    THe good thing is, if you leave your lights on, you can use the battery to start your truck.