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TigerShark5000f.jpgCompAmerica, a globally renowned innovator in building and marketing PCs, high performance Servers, Mobile Computers, and Industrial Computers, today announced a gaming oriented notebook in Tiger Shark 5900 SLI notebook. Well, its quiet obvious that for a full fledged gaming machine, portabality is quiet a distant thing. But however with SLI(Scalable Link Interface), a high-performance technology that intelligently combines and scales graphics performance and visual quality by having multiple NVIDIA GPUs in a single system, more and more companies are making SLI enabled notebooks.

The Tiger Shark sports of a huge 19-inch screen and two NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX 256mb graphics cards. It is powered by AMD Turion processor with clock speeds ranging from 2.2GHz to 2.4GHz. Also the dual core is on its way. The Tiger Shark comes with a two NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX 256MB video cards and Built-in 2.5” SATA-150 Hard Disk Drive up to 120GB capacity and with usual RAM configurations. The most striking thing is that it has quiet a few built in stuffs like 1.3 megapixel webcam and bluetooth ofcourse. ALso there is PCI-Express slot, 4-in-1 card reader and Wi-Fi.

The tiger shark comes with a whopping $3500 price tag. If you can't wait to get hands on this little game oriented mosnter of a machine, set yourself to sacrifice on few things. CompAmerica claims that it takes atleast 2 to 3 week period between order and delivery. For more details on the Tiger Shark, take a glance at the extended entry for complete list of specifications.

Via Engadget

Processor

· AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile up to ML-44 (2.4GHz) Mod B

· AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile up to MT-40 (2.2GHz) Mod A

· Supports Enhanced Hyper Transport™ Technology

· Dual Core Turion™ 64 support COMING SOON

Core Logic

· nVIDIAl® nForce4 SLI™ Chipset (CK804)
Memory

· Support Dual Channel 1024MB PC-3200 (400MHz) DDR
Dual Channel Memory Expandable to 2,048MB
** 4096MB COMING SOON!

· 512KB/1024KB On-Die L2 Cache

BIOS

· 4MB Flash ROM

· Phoenix BIOS with Plug & Play
Disk Storage

· Built-in 2.5” SATA-150 Hard Disk Drive up to 120GB

· Built-in 4-IN-1 Flash Memory Card Reader
(SD/MS/MMC/MS PRO)
Optical Drive*

· Build-in DVD/CDRW combo drive, Optional Double-Layer
DVD±R/RW Burner

* CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/CD-RW/DVD±R/RW drives transfer data at variable speed.

Display

· 256MB/512MB DDR3

· 19" 1680x1050 WSXG+ Active Matrix Display

· Dual/Single nVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 7800 GTX
with SLI Technology Graphics Adapters and Link

· PCI-Express™ 16X

· Dual Simultaneous Display

TV-Tuner

· Optional TV Tuner with Multi-Function Remote Control

Audio System

· AC 97 Compliant

· 3D Stereo enhanced sound system

· Virtual 8-channel audio output

· SRS WOW Support

· Compatible Sound-Blaster PRO™

· S/PDIF Digital output (5.1 CH or 7.1 CH)

· 1 Built-in Microphone

· 4 Built-in Speakers with Subwoofer

PCMCIA Slot

· One PCMCIA Type II slot

Input Device

· Built-in 1.3M Pixel Digital PC Camera

· Full size Key Keyboard with Numeric Keypad

· Integrated Trackpad pointing device with Scrolling
Function

Interface

· 1 IEEE 1394 port (Mini) DC in jack

· 5 USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports 2.0

· 1 Serial Port

· 1 DVI port

· 1 Infrared Transceiver

· 1 Kensington Lock slot

· 1 S-Video jack for TV output

· 4 Audio jack for Line-out, Line-In, Microphone-in and S/PDIF-out

· Built-in 56K Plug & Play Fax/Modem v.90/92 Compliant

· Built-in PCI-Express 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet LAN

· Integrate Super AG 108Mbps Mini PCI /Wireless LAN
802.11A/B/G card.

· Integrated Bluetooth
Power System
· Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery

· Full rage Auto-Switching 100V/240V AC Adapter
Power Management

· Power On Suspend

· Suspend to HDD/DRAM

· Support ACPI 2.0
Physical

· 17.5”(W) x 12.5”(D) x 1.8”(H)

Weight

· 11 lbs. with Battery
Accessories

· Owner’s Manual

· Backpack

· Windows® XP Home Edition with CD-ROM and Manual,
Upgrade to Windows® XP Professional Edition
Options

· Microsoft Office 2003

· USB Floppy Drive

· USB Optical Mouse
Warranty

· 1 year standard

· 3 years optional