Maingear’s Titan 17 laptop is not trying to compete with the M11x for portability. It’s a heavy desktop replacement that uses standard desktop Core i7 processors. Otherwise there is nothing “standard” about the Titan 17; it starts at $2,799 and from there on you can configure it with a host of high-end components.
Some of these include a hexa-core, Hyperthreaded Core i7 Extreme Edition for a total of twelve threads, dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 485M GPUs in SLI, 12 gigs of 1333MHz DDR3 and no less than three hard drive bays that can be filled with brand new Vertex 3 SSDs. The Vertex 3 solid state drives–powered by the latest SandForce controllers that both reads and writes at 500MB/s–can be configured in hardware RAID 0 (if you think that a single drive or RAID 1 is a little slow).
But will it run Crysis 2? I will go out on a limb here and say that it will. Just like Spinal Tap’s Marshall amps everything goes to eleven on this laptop. That includes the price tag, and I mean that literally – just over $11,000 with all the bells and whistles. Although to be fair you probably don’t need those three 480GB Vertex 3 drives.
