Reviews: Falcon Northwest FragBook DRX Gaming Laptop
If you think the Dell WoW laptop’s price was astronomical at $4500 USD, prepare to be blasted even higher with the Falcon Northwest FragBook DRX Gaming Laptop. But before we get to that, check out some of the specs:
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (desktop class) processors up to 2.93 GHz, or Quad Core to 2.66GHz
- Memory: 800 MHz DDR2 Memory upgradeable to 4 gigs (2 DIMM slots)
- Display: 17″ UXGA+ (1900 x 1200) widescreen
- Video Cards: TWO nVidia GeForce™ 8700m with SLI™
- Video RAM: 2×512 MB dedicated DDR3 VRAM
- Hard Drives: Up to 3 SATA II drives, RAID 0, 1, and 5 capability
- Optical Drive: 8x Dual-layer DVD+-R/+-RW
- Camera: Built-in 1.3 Megapixel
- Sound: UAA Intel Azalia compatible
Here’s a part of Gadget Lab’s review:
Somewhere inside this hulking machine Falcon has stashed three(!) 200GB hard drives, a top-of-the-line Intel Core 2 Extreme CPU, 4 gigs of RAM, and dual video cards: Nvidia GeForce 8700M GTs running in an SLI rig. Performance is, as expected, ridiculously fast: One might even say extreme. It’s a full 20 percent faster than any other laptop I’ve tested on business apps, though, at 161 frames per second on Quake 4, just short of being a record-breaker in our graphics tests. Just don’t expect to haul the DRX on your next trip to LAX: At 12.1 pounds it’s a backbreaker, with all of 61 minutes of battery life.
$4,500 is nothing to this thing’s $7,669 price tag. If you’ve got some serious money to burn, you might want to check this out.
Source: Product Page, Gadget Lab
Short URL: http://gadget.ca/lch
