Thinking about getting a new laptop are you? Well today seems to be a laptop announcements day. We’ve seen the new Vaio lineup and we’ve heard about the future Dell-E prices. We also know Lenovo has some new laptops to look at. In the mean time we found another rumor around. It appears that Intel will start offering quad-core processors in August. So hold your laptop buying horses. You don’t want to miss an Intel quad-core do you?

Pioneer Computers, Australian PC makers are taking orders as we speak on systems equipped with a 2.53GHz Core 2 Extreme chip, the QX9300. And Sujan Kamran, Intel’s regional marketing manager in Singapore said earlier that “we’re bringing quad-core to mobile in August”. If by we he meant Intel, well, this rumor is almost confirmed.

via Engadget

XtremeNotebooks, a US custom gaming rig supplier announced its new Xtreme 917V laptop, featuring an Intel Core 2 Quad processor. Options on the Xtreme 917V include RAID 0, 1, or 5, dual SLI nVidia 8000 or Quadro series graphics cards (with support for Microsoft DirectX 10, of course) and triple SATA hard disk drives up to 300GB each. Targeted at people that require high-end graphics and storage as well as gaming, this is definitely one extreme laptop. Think of it as the desktop you lug around - it’s as simple as that.

Want to work with 3D Studio Max on the go? No problem, the 917V laptop can handle it. Three models are available in the this series, including Fusion, Reactor and Accelerator. Each model offers a 17″ display (1680×1050 Super Wide Angle Glass View LCD) with the base configuration featuring a 60GB SATA 150 hard drive and an 8X DVD+/-R/RW burner. RAM can be expanded up to 4GB.

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