Specification
Check out the specs of the chassis SavRow use and how they configured it for the review sample, and you start to get an idea.| Clevo D900T Chassis | |
| CPU | Up to Pentium 4 570, 3.8GHz, 1MB L2 |
| Northbridge | Intel i915P |
| Memory Support | 4 slots. 4 x DDR-II (DDR533 max), 4GB max |
| Display | 17 inch WSXGA or WUXGA, 1680x1050 or 1920x1200, 16:9 wide |
| PEG | 16 lanes from the i915P |
| Southbridge | Intel ICH6 |
| Audio | Realtek ALC880 HD Audio CODEC from ICH6 feed |
| Audio Connectivity | Five internal speakers setup as 4.1 SPDIF output, microphone input, headphone input, line output |
| PCI Conventional | 1 x 32-bit miniPCI |
| IDE | 2 ports from ICH6 |
| IDE RAID | Both ICH6 ports |
| SATA | 2 ports from Promise 378 |
| SATA RAID | Both Promise ports |
| Networking | Realtek 8110 GigE, 10/100/1000 Mibit/sec 56K internal modem |
| USB | ICH6, 4 USB2.0 |
| FireWire | 2 x FireWire400, 4-pin unpowered |
| PC Card | 32-bit Type II |
| Other I/O | 7-in-1 card reader, DVI, composite and S-Video Parallel, serial, PS2, built-in webcam, S-Video input (requires optional TV-tuner, IrDA |
| Disk space | 2 internal 2.5" bays 2 laptop optical external bays |
| Batteries | 1 bay |
| Weight and dimensions | 5.52kg/12.17lb with one HDD, one optical, one battery 397mm/15.6in wide 298mm/11.7in deep 50mm/1.96in thick |
Yes, those specs are correct. The D900T based SavRow Katana 3D-9 will take up to two hard disks and two optical drives - all at the same time. And, the 17in wide-screen LCD panel IS accompanied by five built-in speakers (and one of them is a sub-woofer).
Perhaps, now you're starting to understand why it weighs the wrong side of 5kilos and is nearly 2in thick, and realise that the fact that the machine even nods in the direction of portability is remarkable.
Perhaps in its rush to get us the test sample - for what should be the first real-world review of a portable with an NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400 graphics unit - SavRow's configuration of the machine fell a bit short of what it says is the normal spec.
The review sample had 1GB of Corsair DDR2-533 memory - half the usual quota (the maximum is 4GB), and a single 100GByte Seagate Momentus 5,400rpm hard disk, rather than the 7,200rpm drive that would normally be featured. There was also only one optical drive, an 8x dual-layer DVD+-R/RW burner, and the CPU was a 3.6GHz Pentium 4 560 - there's an option for 3.8GHz.
Before showing you what the D900T looks like, though, it needs to be mentioned that the NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400 has 256MB of GDDR3 memory and that the provided WSXGA display option has a 1680x1050 pixel resolution. Oh, and far from trivial, there's also a 2-in-1 miniPC WiFi-cum-Bluetooth expansion card.
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