Retailer Planning Laptops With Intel Core i7 Chips 142
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."
A laptop... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Desktop Replacement (Score:3, Funny)
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...
Re:Just plain silly (Score:5, Funny)
The laptop is 12 pounds: two pounds for the laptop, ten pounds for the batteries.
Re:A laptop... (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...
It's not a laptop ... (Score:5, Funny)
... it is a compact electric (gonad) cooker. :-)
PC architecture is not ready! (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:Just plain silly (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:It's not a laptop ... (Score:2, Funny)
Don't you mean Penis Panini?
Re:PC architecture is not ready! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:A laptop... (Score:5, Funny)
If you're single and still getting some, a temporary decrease in fertility is a feature not a bug.
Deep-pocketed... (Score:3, Funny)
...enough so to afford a Sherpa to carry the thing?
Crazy talk (Score:2, Funny)
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 :)
Re:Desktop Replacement (Score:4, Funny)
Canada != Europe (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Just plain silly (Score:5, Funny)
THe good thing is, if you leave your lights on, you can use the battery to start your truck.
12 pounds (Score:3, Funny)
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. :)
Exchange rate? (Score:3, Funny)
I know the dollar has taken a hammering lately, but its not really that bad yet is it?
Re:Crazy talk (Score:2, Funny)
Only if the girl's birth control pill fails to work, and in that case the after-oops pill will work just as fine.
That attitude really must have women beating down your door.
From the inside.
Re:Just plain silly (Score:2, Funny)
£12? Bargain. Bet it's heavy tho.
Sorry
Re:Just plain silly (Score:3, Funny)
A 20 lb laptop would still be lighter than the cases of beer I carried in college.
Fixed that for you.