3. A Common Hardware Platform, Continued

Power to these notebooks is provided by a Li-Ion 14.8 V, 6600 mAh battery.

The cooling system is impressive - and with two mobile Geforce 7950 GTX GPUs running in an SLI configuration, absolutely necessary. Faced with the task of cooling a notebook containing the equivalent power of a desktop, it takes four fans and heat sinks in the case keep the system stable. Of course, the meat and potatoes of both of these notebooks - the main board - is the same. The basic platform we’re dealing with is an Intel P965 chipset supporting 800 MHz DDR2.

Now that we’ve identified what makes these machines so similar, let’s examine what Eurocom and M-tech do to differentiate their versions of this high-performance notebook platform.