NVIDIA's 8800M GTX goes SLI and promises ultimate gaming notebooks

[HEXUS]

NVIDIA's GeForce 8800M GTX is about as fast as it gets for notebook graphics, right? Wrong, now you can have two 8800M GTX cards in one notebook using SLI.

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[vinnyT]

I'll bet Rock is one of the first on the market.

They must need excellent heat management, I can't imagine that it would be too comfortable on your lap, though these are prob meant for desktop replacements rather than mobile devices.

[dangel]

Imagine the battery er.. 'life' ?

[Lucio]

All you'll need is a backpack mounted battery and intergrated watercooling device and you're set!

[MarkWarwick]

Silly amounts of power for a notebook, this isn't the point of them, although I can see this maybe being used where intensive graphics are required on some remote site, but i'm brobably just being niave in not having any knowledge of such an application

[Agent]

Silly amounts of power for a notebook, this isn't the point of them

The point of a notebook purely depends on its owner and their intended use
If you're a gamer on the move a lot, they are ideal!

[directhex]

if you can afford the kind of system which will have SLI 8800m gtx in it, you can afford to import a chinese goldfarmer who will power the laptop using a dynamo linked to an exercise bike

[baius]

Imagine the battery er.. 'life' ?

'life' - lol

[CDM]

Good god!! We use the Dell XPS's for show laptops where I work and the Power supplies for the latest ones are already almost the same size as the laptop!!

This is only going to make matters worse, you'd be better off carrying around a desktop PC...... at least it would be lighter!!

[baius]

Good god!! We use the Dell XPS's for show laptops where I work and the Power supplies for the latest ones are already almost the same size as the laptop!!

This is only going to make matters worse, you'd be better off carrying around a desktop PC...... at least it would be lighter!!

& faster.