If you're shopping for a Falcon Northwest gaming laptop, there's no middle ground: Either go for broke or leave the website. Consider the Fragbook DRX ($6,449 direct, starting prices around $4,000); the money you'll have spent by the time you trick it out could avert several foreclosures. This 12-pound tank is one of only a handful of boutique laptops that have enough cooling fans to run a 3.33-GHz, Intel Core i7 975 processor—the top-of-the-line desktop processor, no less. Surround the CPU with an excellent supporting cast—an nVidia GeForce 280M GTX graphics card, 6GB of memory, and three internal hard drives (one of which is an 80GB SSD), and its competitors can only watch helplessly while they get pulverized in performance tests.
Falcon Northwest
http://www.falcon-nw.com
- Price as Tested: $6,449.00 Direct
- Type: Gaming, Media
- Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
- Processor Name: Intel Core i7-975
- Processor Speed: 3.33 GHz
- RAM: 6 GB
- Weight: 12 lb
- Screen Size: 17 inches
- Screen Size Type: widescreen
- Graphics Card: nVidia GeForce 280M GTX
- Storage Capacity: 1080 GB
- Networking Options: 802.11n
- Primary Optical Drive: DVD+/-RW DL with Blu-Ray
