Tuesday, May 13th 2008

Eurocom Lets Loose D901C Phantom-X 'Server' Laptop

Eurocom has launched the D901C Phantom-X laptop, a piece of machinery you don't see every day. It is no accident that the word server is being used in the title. The Phantom-X can be configured with a server based Intel Xeon X3360 quad-core chip running at 2.83GHz (45nm, 12MB of L2 cache), 17-inch 1920x1200 display, a 2x Blu-ray burner, up to 8GB DDR2-800 of RAM, a pair of GeForce 8800M Go GTX graphics chips, three 64GB solid state disk drives (each one of these adds around $1400 to the price a piece), as well as Windows Server 2008 OS. The overall price of the laptop with all optional parts maxed out is roughly $10 000, not a bad deal for a laptop (joke). If you ask about the battery life, it's a twelve cell Lithium Ion one that will power the laptop for an hour. So if you're looking for the ultimate laptop this is probably the best one you can find. An updated model that will have the physical space to integrate up to six hard drives for up to 3TB of storage space is also planned for September.
Sources: Eurocom, TG Daily
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33 Comments on Eurocom Lets Loose D901C Phantom-X 'Server' Laptop

#26
Triprift
With the way lappy technology is improving that will be a 1k machine in a year more like it.
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#27
erocker
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Good for LAN's mabye? Perhaps for that one hour flight where I just have to play TF2?
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#28
Ripper3
I can see this would be good for me, if I ever decide to go and visit friends in Amsterdam. The flight is only about an hour long, the time I can actually use electroncis for is probably about 45 minutes, so it'd be fine, for a quick bit of gaming. Certainly better than my m1330, which likely gets taxed by Max Payne. Never go Intel for graphics...

Oh, and a laptop like this would replace my main PC. After all, it's probably much more powerful (quad Xeon, versus OCed E6300, and dual G92s over single HD 3850). Although I'd likely make a stand for it to run cooler, although the four fans inside look like they do a somewhat okay job of cooling it.
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#29
btarunr
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erockerGood for LAN's mabye? Perhaps for that one hour flight where I just have to play TF2?
Just don't plan to host a LAN in that flight. :laugh: , so much RFI could mess with the flight's instruments.
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#30
gmich
FreedomEclipsewhy the hell would you need 2 8800M GTX's in that thing?? unless your gonna have 10 monitors plugged into it at once it seems a little overkill IMHO - or is it so people with money can quickly set up their small/large lan games without having to resort to performance leeching when hosting the games on their PC/laptop???
We here at M-Tech absolutely agree with you. We market the same laptop under our brand name and know its pros and cons.
The 8800M is such a good video card that adding another at best only gives you about 14% increase in performance and only at the most extreme times. Yes of course that is when you want it, but you must consider the price you pay for that 14% increase. It is almost $700. Choke gag :eek: Think twice before you do that. SLI makes more sense if you are using a card that performs less but the 8800M hardly needs any help. I saw other responses about the size and battery life. Don't think of this as a laptop, think of it as a portable desktop. To market this as a laptop just invites well founded criticism. Nothing can touch the D901C (MTECH D900C)for performance but if you have an issue with battery life or portability, you may be better off looking at a laptop such as the MTECH M570URor a laptop like it. Still plenty of video power because it too uses the 8800M GTX but it runs on the Penryn CPU and soon will be up and running on the Intel's Montivena. All the posts here seem well thought out I only wish Laptop manufacturers did not damage a laptops reputation by trying to cross market it in an area that just does not make sense. If this laptop were marketed as a desktop replacement then I suspect only positive comments would come forth. Because this is one heck of a mobile workstation
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#31
Wile E
Power User
I still want 3. lol.
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#32
Darkrealms
gmichWe here at M-Tech absolutely agree with you. We market the same laptop under our brand name and know its pros and cons.
The 8800M is such a good video card that adding another at best only gives you about 14% increase in performance and only at the most extreme times. Yes of course that is when you want it, but you must consider the price you pay for that 14% increase. It is almost $700. Choke gag :eek: Think twice before you do that. SLI makes more sense if you are using a card that performs less but the 8800M hardly needs any help. I saw other responses about the size and battery life. Don't think of this as a laptop, think of it as a portable desktop. To market this as a laptop just invites well founded criticism. Nothing can touch the D901C (MTECH D900C)for performance but if you have an issue with battery life or portability, you may be better off looking at a laptop such as the MTECH M570URor a laptop like it. Still plenty of video power because it too uses the 8800M GTX but it runs on the Penryn CPU and soon will be up and running on the Intel's Montivena. All the posts here seem well thought out I only wish Laptop manufacturers did not damage a laptops reputation by trying to cross market it in an area that just does not make sense. If this laptop were marketed as a desktop replacement then I suspect only positive comments would come forth. Because this is one heck of a mobile workstation
Nice another vendor willing to come and comment on their products. Cheers!
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