"Two monitors, two graphics cards, two processors, two hard disks, dual-channel memory. Adding more than one is often the quickest way to improve performance and productivity. Internally, this is what ATI and nVidia have been doing for ages - adding more and more pipelines to their chip architecture at an ever increasing rate.

So when nVidia announced support for SLI in notebooks, I wasn’t entirely surprised. But when I saw what the first notebooks looked like – I was. This behemoth of a notebook from AJP weighs in at a shocking 6.6Kg (more than three times the weight of my Sony VAIO) with a 19in display running at 1,680 x 1, 050. As well as two GeForce GO 7800 GTX graphics chips, this nForce 4 SLI notebook has an AMD Turion 64 ML-40 which operates at 2.2GHz. It’s surprising not to see an X2 used instead, but considering the heat this chassis has to cope with already, we’ll have to make do. Not to say the Turion isn’t an excellent processor, but if you were buying a top of the range desktop machine you wouldn’t skimp on a single core processor."

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