Mental Masturbation and Notebooks

I have been looking for a mobile loadgen notebook for operations when "out in the field." The biggest criteria is portable horsepower and I don't mind a "desktop replacement." I'm not looking for a travel friendly unit but the most portable horsepower that I can carry and I might have found the unit that I am looking for...

Sager NP9262:

• 17" Wide Viewing Angles WSXGA+ LCD with Super Glossy Surface (1680 x 1050)
• Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Processor Q6700 / 8MB L2 Cache, 2.66GHz, 1066MHz FSB
  
• Single Nvidia GeForce 8800M GTX Graphics with 512MB DDR3 Video Memory
• Genuine MS Windows® VISTA BUSINESS 32/64-Bit Edition
• 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 2 X 2048MB
• RAID-5 Storage ( Data Strip & Parity - Requires 2nd and 3rd Hard Disk Drives )
• 200GB 7200 rpm SATA 150 Hard Drive
• 200GB 7200 rpm SATA 150 Hard Drive
• 200GB 7200 rpm SATA 150 Hard Drive

How much? $3299.00

It's not so much a notebook as it is a portable four core server. That's a lot of portable horsepower! 400 gig of filespace in RAID5 goodness with four cores. If I can set proc affinity for various processes using the `start /affinity ` command then I should be golden.

But it comes at a price. That sucker should weigh in at around 13 pounds of weight not including the monster 230 watt PS.

I've also looked at the HP 8710P and Dell XPS high end laptops but none of those have the support for RAID5 goodness that gives you a warm and happy feeling if a drive decided to drop off the face of the planet.