It's out with the old and in with the new, as ASUS gives its special edition Lamborghini VX7 laptop a Sandy Bridge makeover for Spring 2011.
Now boasting a quad-core, eight-threaded Core i7-2630QM as the engine for this beast, ASUS puts the Sandy Bridge processor on an HM65 chipset but eschews the CPU's integrated graphics and throws in an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M discrete GPU with, supposedly, 3GB of onboard memory. Making good use of the power is a 15.6in (LED-backilt) screen with a native resolution of 1,920x1,080.
Given a large-enough budget, you can cram up to 16GB of DDR3, a 750GB, 7,200rpm hard drive or 1.25TB SSD, and Blu-ray writer. Standard trim includes an 8-in-1 card-reader; Bluetooth v2.1; 802.11n WiFi; Gigabit LAN; USB 3.0 (one port), and HDMI and VGA outputs. Windows 7 is, naturally, the operating system of choice.
The big bruiser is powered by an 8-cell, 75WHr battery and weighs in at 3.82kg. These specifications don't come cheap, as you can imagine, and there's inevitably going to be a Lamborghini tax involved, so don't be surprised to see a base configuration cost over £2,000.
Available in a garish orange and rather more understated black, ASUS is probably of the thinking that you're buying an experience more than a powerful laptop.
Read the full specs here.
