Gericom Hollywood XXL SLI Notebook Chassis

Post by **Apoptosis** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:28 am

I just ran across the Gericom Hollywood XXL SLI notebook (link)and found it very interesting for a number of reasons. First off it's a 17" SLI notebook unlike the many others that are all 19". Secondly it uses the AMD Turion 64 Mobile Processor and not the Intel CPU's.

Coming out in April

Gericom Hollywood XXL SLI notebook features:
AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile Technology ML-40
(2,2 GHz, 1 MB L2 Cache, Hypertransfer)
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
17” WXGA+ Display
2x80 GB HDD SATA, 1024 MB RAM DDR
Geforce Go 7800, 256 MB SLI
Dual DVD+/- RW 8xSpeed
Wirleless LAN, Webcam, Bluetooth
Analog/Digital TV-Tuner

The Gericom Hollywood XXL SLi Notebook:

Here is a shot of the inside showing the two NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX video card cooling solutions:

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:56 am

my laptop is peeing itself right about now

Post by **Illuminati** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:23 am

Nate, do we know if these laptops have MXM interfaces? or are the GPUs soldered to the mainboard?

Post by **Apoptosis** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:36 am

some are MXM some are direct some have some sort of bridge... it's a mix and no one knows and it isn't listed on the companies sites.

NAiLs · Post by **NAiLs** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:54 am

Looks pretty nice... and expensive!

I'm glad to see a lot more notebooks coming out with SLI solutions, but haven't heard much about CF? It's just so cool that they can put dual GPU's in a freakin' notebook! Also RAID configurations or just dual hard drives period in a notebook? Another awesome feature coming to notebooks!

The only thing that I'm not hot on with that chassis, is the front loading CD tray. Why would you do that?

Post by **Apoptosis** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:55 am

NAiLs wrote:The only thing that I'm not hot on with that chassis, is the front loading CD tray. Why would you do that?

Because at 11-14 pounds it will not be on your lap!

NAiLs · Post by **NAiLs** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:00 am

True. I don't put my Inspiron 9100 (AKA XPS) on my lap either. It is on a little wooden stool that I made in 7th grade and it actually sits just as high as my couch. That would make me move it back a good 6" just to open the CD tray. But I'm probably just one of those odd ones who does something like this!