Tuesday, 02 Aug 2005

Double decker nuclear powered laptop

Last night I was chatting with Stewart about what laptop we will be buying next. (He’s looking at ASUS laptops, one of which, the V6V looks really promising, and apparently has excellent Linux compatibility).

While we were on that site, however, I spied a “laptop” from a different manufacturer that makes me shake my head in amazement. It’s called the Sager NP9880 (why are computer model numbers so stupid?). It’s portable, but only in the “portable if you include the optional 4WD pickup truck option” category:

Laptops all look the same (ok, so this one is exceptionally ugly) but look closer: the keyboard includes a keypad! This thing has bays for two hard drives (you can get it RAID configured from the factory), and has slots for two optical drives:

Lots of ports…

… but note the thickness, and more worryingly, look at the size of that exhaust vent!

Now flip it upside down:

Oh my god! Look at the fans on this thing! It would probably hover at desk level all by itself!

I’d shudder to think what would happen to your legs if you actually ran this laptop on your lap…

Photos from website of “AGear Notebooks” a US based vendor.

nuclear-powered-laptop, posted by Andrew Cowie in comment at 2005-08-02T02:10:33Z

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