Falcon Northwest FragBook DRX Gaming Laptop Review

For people who know those gamers who just can't get their game on without the newest, flashest, and fastest system available, we bring you news of the FragBook DRX from Falcon Northwest.

The DRX—stands for Desktop Replacement Extreme. This is a machine which attempts to push the limits of what might be considered a laptop system by packing all the features of a high-end gaming desktop into a laptop chassis. The results are unprecedented. Somewhere inside this beast of a machine Falcon has stashed three!, 200GB hard drives, a top-of-the-line Intel Core 2 Extreme CPU, 4 gigs of RAM, and dual video cards: Nvidia GeForce 8700M GTs running in an SLI rig. Performance is, as expected, ridiculously fast.The FragBook DRX offers Intel Core 2 Duo processors running at up to 2.93 GHz, support for up to 4 GB of 800 MHz DDR2 RAM, and 17-inch 1,900 by 1,200 pixel LCD display. With the three internal SATA II hard drives with RAID 0, 1, and 5 capability, you can either have enough storage for your entire media collection or reliable data backup—or, for some people, maybe both. The system also sports a 1.3 megapixel Webcam, 802.11n Wi-Fi wireless networking, an 8× dual-layer DVD burner, gigabit Ethernet, and four internal speakers. Also on board: DVI, VGA, and S-Video output; four USB 2.0 ports; 1 mini FireWire port; headphone, mic, audio in, and S/PDIF; an ExpressCard/34/54 slot, a 7-in-1 media card reader, and a CATV television tuner. If you think all this hardware consumes power, you'd be right with all of 61 minutes of battery life. And if you think all this hardware would be heavy, you'd be right again, at 12.1 pounds it's a backbreaker. Although the unit's 12.1 pounds isn't as bad as some other desktop replacement rigs.

If you think the Dell WoW laptop's price was astronomical at $4500 USD, prepare to be blasted even higher with the Falcon Northwest FragBook DRX Gaming Laptop which starts at $5,433.79, which will get you this monster completely customizable, from chassis to drive capacities to peripherals to operating system to custom paint jobs, of course, with 4 GB of RAM and three hard drives (on 7200 rpm 100 GB, two 5400 RPM 160 GB) the price tag jumps to $7,763.56. In conclusion the price is way too much when you can easily customize your own gaming laptop for way less and better looks but if you have the funds go for it.