iBUYPOWER Laptop Brings Core i7 Power to the Table
It sometimes seems as if all the action in the notebook space is geared toward the smallest, cheapest devices. Gaming notebook maker iBUYPOWER wants to stop that right now and has released the 15.6-inch Battalion Touch CZ-11. That’s a tough name for a tough notebook packing an Intel Core i7 processor. The Touch in the name refers to the multitouch screen, a unique twist to a power notebook.
The CZ-11 has a list of components to satisfy any power user wanting a 15-inch laptop:
- CPU: Intel Core i7-720QM (4 x 1.6 GHz)
- Memory: 4 GB
- Display: 15.6-inch multitouch (1920×1080)
- Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5650, 1 GB VRAM
- Storage: 500 GB
- Optical Drive: DVD
The Battalion Touch will set you back $1,299 as listed, but it’s totally configurable so that could go much higher.
Eurocom has a 17″ Clevo design shipping with 6-core Gulftown and 4 hard drives. No multitouch display, but a mobile processing and storage beast.
All I can say is that your first statement is, oh, so true. its one of the reasons why I like this site. You guys don’t forget the power user. Btw, have you gone to the coffee shop with that 18.4 inch behemoth acer, I don’t remember the last coffee break post you guys did, and I miss them.
Multi-touch…on a clamshell device with no swivel screen?
Not sure I see the practicality of this, especially for something billed as a gaming laptop. The closest thing I can think of is working with cockpit controls in flight simulators. Any other serious usage of a touchscreen would probably benefit from a slate mode.
(And if they’d just put a Wacom digitizer in there too…wouldn’t be much of a Tablet PC with that design, but it would be more of a mobile workstation with an integrated Cintiq.)