December 20th, 2005
ITC Metabox 740u: the King Kong of gaming notebooks
By Martin Regtien
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
ITC METABOX 740u (Clevo D900T) Notebook :: First Impressions
With 3DMark benchmark scores of nearly 7000, this King Kong of Desktop Replacement Systems is heavy.
Heavy on specs, heavy on performance, heavy on power consumption.
And just plain heavy…
But that brute power is oh so smooth!
If price were no object and you did not care much about weight or battery life, what is the fastest and most potent laptop you can build today?
The team at Digital Reviews Network set out to do just that and came up with arguably the fastest, street legal notebook - at least here in Australia. Come and meet the ITC METABOX 740u (Clevo D900T).
It’s an unprecedented heavyweight, featuring, among other things, the Nvidia GeForce Go 7800 GTX, a 3.8 GHz Pentium 4, two 100GB 7200rpm SATA hard drives running in RAID 0 or 1 configuration and all the connectivity you would ever need…
Chuck in a HD TV tuner with remote-control and you know you’ve got something special here.
This is Part I of a three-part in-depth review of the ITC METABOX 740u.
It covers our first impressions of this amazing machine with plenty of photographs and a list of all the features.
Part II will detail the in-depth benchmarking and Part III will give a comparison with the METABOX 730u, which is one of the fastest Centrino-based notebooks around and the first of those to come with an Nvidia GeForce GO 7800 GTX.
Source: www.DigitalReviews.net
stephen says:
This is an amazing machine! Good review too. I just hope they publish the benchmarking and comparison review soon as I want one!
(it’s probably gonna be too late for Christmas…)
December 20th, 2005 at 5:31 am
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December 20th, 2005 at 5:40 am
Jimmy says:
Sager has a comparable notebook http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/notebooks/product.cfm?ProductType=9890 that’s cheaper, but this one I’m linking to only has the one hard drive, but you can add the second, I didn’t do a side by side comparison, but, I bought mine almost two years ago, with a pentium 4 3.4 ghz, 1 gig memory, mirrored 60 gig drives, it has the 7 in 1 card reader, three usb ports, firewire, 17″ widesreen that looks a lot bigger than that one, dvd writer, etc. The only bad thing with mine is it gets hot because of the mirrored drives and the fans are kinda loud, but I’ve helped both those situations with one of those laptop trays with the fans. I’ll definately be getting another in a couple years, heck this one is still fast as a desktop I just bought, but I doubt I will get the mirrored drives, just one big one.
December 20th, 2005 at 7:06 am
Martin says:
The Sager 9890 looks physically the same and shares many characteristics, being a Clevo manufactured unit. With the configurator on Sager’s site I came up with US$3583 for their highest specification. The Metabox can be configured higher than that Sager model and, yes, you spend more moolah for more performance… It’s a pity that the bragging rights to the fastest this or that only lasts such a short time! In a year we’ll all be laughing at the fuss we made about all this…:)
Cheers,
Martin
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