Eurocom has announced what it claims is the worlds' first notebook to feature a six-core processor, along with some quite frankly astonishing storage and memory options.
The Eurocom
D900F Panther Mobile Workstation is a beast of a laptop, which the company has now updated to include the Intel i7-980X Extreme Edition as a processor option, giving the user six physical cores and twelve processing threads running at 3.33GHz - in, this must be remembered, a
notebook.
As if that wasn't impressive enough, the company also offers the option to fit up to four hard drives into the chassis for a maximum of 2.6TB of storage, along with a quite frankly ridiculous 24GB of DDR3-1333 RAM in a triple-channel configuration.
Designed to offer a portable - just about - workstation for professional use, or as a gaming machine for the well-heeled FPS enthusiast, the Panther is certainly an impressive beast in the specifications department - although weighing in at 5.44KG and a whopping 52mm thick it's not something you'll want to carry with you for long.
The 17" WUXGA display is powered by either a GTX 285M gaming-class or Quadro FX 3800M workstation-class Nvidia GPU or an optional ATI HD5870, and the Panther also features on-board Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI output, eSATA, dual-link DVI, and a full-size keyboard with number pad.
Defending the excessive specifications, Eurocom president Mark Bialic stated that the Panther is "
a server or workstation class computer complete with built in Uninterruptable Power Supply in a 12 pound notebook form factor," for those who find themselves needing to move their server from A to B easily.
Pricing for the Panther D900F starts -
starts, mind you - at £2,204 for the base model and works its way rapidly up from there.
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