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    Desktop component-ized laptops

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by jclausius, Apr 21, 2011.

  1. jclausius

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    Does anyone know if Clevo is the ONLY manufacturer whose laptop models allow Desktop CPUs? What about the combo Desktop CPU along side MxM-IV based video cards?

    Of the "current" high end laptops on the market which allow the i7 9xx (DESKTOP) CPUs, they all seem to be variants of the x7200. Is there any other manufacturer? Also, do you have any links to press materials, articles, reviews, Clevo info, or vendor's pages which verify that claim?

    TIA.
     
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  2. pukemon

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    check eurocom's website. they have a laptop or two that takes a lot of gpu's but i think they're some mxm 3 variant.
     
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    Eurocom sell Clevos with desktop components, the OP's question is of other manufacturers (Alienware et. al) who do the same.
     
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    Yes.

    From what I can tell, Clevo is the only manufacturer who makes a laptop with socket support for Desktop CPUs. I'm not talking about resellers here, but the actual barebones, whitebox laptop.

    I have found a couple of news articles back this up, but wanted to make sure there wasn't something else I wasn't aware of which does the same.
     
    jclausius, Apr 22, 2011
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    i think asus occasionally makes desktop capable laptops. don't know of any current models, though.
     
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    A few brands of laptops have done, or at least tried to manufacture laptops with desktop cpu's in the past. Dell, Packard and Gateway comes to mind ... but in the recent years, only Clevo with their D900 series and the X7200, as far as I know.
    And with the latest laptop cpu's coming very close to their desktop counterparts in performance, it's maybe not very likely we will see much more of that sort of thing. Maybe the X7200 will see a Sandy Bridge update, but other than that....
     
    ReDuNZL, Apr 23, 2011
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