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The blazing XR5 is the first triple hard drive laptop on the market, and if you include the GPU memory, the Black Hawk offers up to 5GB of RAM. Factor in the Quad Core processor and you are looking at one of the most powerful notebooks on the planet, however, at 11 pounds it's also one of the heaviest!

Black Hawk Quad Core NotebookPCMicroWorks wants to be the go-to manufacturer for best high-endcomputer systems in the world, and its monumental Black-Hawk XR5Quad-Core backs up the aspirations. Forget superlatives. One look at the specs on theBlack-Hawk XR5 makes me elicit expletives of joy. But this is a family-friendlyblog, so never fear-you will get the dirt on the super-duperBlack-Hawk XR5 without us getting dirty.


Thesingular Black-Hawk XR5 possesses two features that alone couldmake laptop lovers froth at the mouth. The first is the IntelCore 2 Quad processor. Four cores on one chip make for twice thespeed as what has been seen from the revolutionary Core 2 Duochip. That powers even heavy-duty rendering and number-crunchingapps twice as fast.

What's more impressive, though? That or that the Black-Hawk XR5has more RAM than any other laptop in the entire known universe?Get this: the outstanding Black-Hawk XR5 packs 4096MB ofmore-bang-for-your-buck DDR2 RAM, plus 1024 MB of GPU memory.Let's do the math-that totals 5120 MB.

Want to be even more awestruck? You know those broadband cardsfrom the major telecomms that business folks slip into theirlaptops? That's evolution-data optimized/HSDPA very-high-speedwireless connectivity. The Black-Hawk XR5 is one of the fewlaptops out there with this built in. It means that, in any placein the world with a 3G cell phone signal, you'll get wireless(subscription with one of those telecomm companies notincluded).

That's enough to make you lobby Santa for a spiffy new Black-HawkXR5. Well, there's more. On top of the quad-core, the RAM,DirectX 10 support and the wirelessconnectivity, the Black-Hawk XR5 features two 512MB nVidia8800GTX video cards for stunning graphics power. The three harddrives in the Black-Hawk can be set to RAID 0, 1 or 5. AndBlu-Ray RW Drive is also available for to sooth your HDentertainment needs.

Then there's the wealth of ports and jacks including integratedmedia card readers, a GPS option to find yourself, a pretty17-inch widescreen, uber-bright display, and the military-gradecarbon top with automotive-grade protective finish.

All for the top-end price of $5468. Here come those expletivesagain. In short the XR5 is one of the most powerful gaming laptops on the planet, but do factor in the weight of 11 pounds if you think you'll be travelling with the Black Hawk. PC Microworks also offer "Notebook Armor", which is a black riveted aluminum case with soft nylon padding inside to protect your XR5.

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