Laptop Magazine’s gotten their grubby little hands on a new concept notebook from Voodoo (HP) called "Firefly." It’s one beefy flying insect, too, at 17.1 inches and 13 pounds.
After the big 17.1-inch, 1920×1200 screen, the machine sports a secondary 4.3-inch screen at 800×480, handy for checking e-mail, various widgets, and even full web pages. Under the hood, there’s a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 4GB of RAM, a 250GB 7,200 RPM hard drive, and two ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 GPUs set up in CrossFire mode.
Other features include a side-mounted multi-touch trackpad, backlit keyboard, Creative X-Fi audio, and a built-in webcam with night vision features. Yes, night vision.
The Firefly apparently blasted through Far Cry 2 with all the settings on "Very High," which is mighty impressive for a laptop. It should be noted that this specific rig might not ever make it to market, as it’s just to show off what’s possible, although we’ll likely see similar offerings from HP/Voodoo in the near future.
why not just a single ATI 4850 to reduce heat, weight, and price with the same performance?
I think the 2nd screen is useless. Just minimize the daym game…
It can not use single ATI 4850 to reduce heat since desktop base 4850 TDP is 110w and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 GPUs is not ready therefore even newest Alienware 17 notebook are still use two ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 GPUs set up in CrossFire mode. For the money, I will go for the Alienware 17 notebook not HP due to weighs a bit more than most laptops at 13 pounds