I warned folks, Nvidia chipsets always have problems creep into them. Never, never, even though I eyed a M17x myself, would I ever put a Nvidia chipset in my household.

Feel bad, because folks put some big $$ on these things and I tell you there are always bugs in Nvidia chipsets. The dual video thing was a good idea, but not worth the risk of a Nvidia chipset. Go research the Toshiba Qosmio models that also use Nvidia chipsets and you'll find a wealth of problems, some major, that plague the owners.

Very sorry for these owners.

Ok pay attention Jen-Hsun Huang, this ought to be easy enough for even you to understand. You threw the first punch. Remember the whole deal about SLI would not be allowed on Intel chipsets? Remember how folks called that unfair. And now we hear you whining. Whine away, tough guy. Hope you actually have someone in your company paid enough to listen to you. Because Intel told you it was going to make you eat that decision.

So grab a fork and some salt and pepper. Because it sure is going to be fun to watch you eat that hat.

This money isn't going to AMD. And Microsoft's money isn't going to software developers either. This lines the EU's pockets so they can afford to sue the next US company. You don't see them lining up to sue Toyota, of Fujitsu, let alone, (oh no!) a EU company? They wouldn't dare levy this kind of fine against an EU company. They'd be thrown out of office, or the EU would collapse.

This is legal money making - that is not helping a single of the victim companies. The US needs to start dragging SAP and other EU companies into court and drag a few billion out of them and give the EU a taste of its own medicine. The cause may be just in some of these instances, but the execution is pure grand theft. And when AMD goes under, you'll ask yourself what happened to the hundreds of millions that Intel paid, and you'll find that in the huge houses and huge cars driven by the EU reps.

Grand theft...

Sweet :)

30" LED model please :)

The fact that they have 17" models out with LED BLU's puts LG and Samsung to shame. No one has to wonder why it takes some competition to shake things up in the market.

Meanwhile where are these on Dell and HP models?

Sorry Google. You are plenty well off enough to have bid for the channel yourself if you wanted it. Instead you bid up the price in an attempt to pull a little corporate shenanigans.

I've got no sympathy for you. And given how you drove up the price on purpose, never intending to write a check yourself, no one else should have any sympathy either.

This is a shot right over the Dell 1730 and Alienware M17x bows. Things the Asus has that the others do not:

8ms screen
dual lamp screen (tired of stupid dim laptop screens I am!)
Normal, fast and "turbo" clockspeeds from the company that brought overclocking too the masses
Decent sound (Maybe it's like the Xonar DX and does EAX 5?)
Dual screens, main and aux data (though the 1730 has something similar)

The only thing that might have been better would be a high brightness LED backlit screen, but the above will do!

That heatsink makes it look like they were headed for a 15k drive.

Hopefully you can overclock at least 2 of the cores when you are plugged into the wall. This combined with 1066 DDR3 SOdimms should be quite a machine.