Eurocom D900C Phantom-X
Video editors and motion-graphics artists have been poorly served by laptops, with even the most expensive notebook components proving inadequate for heavy renders or editing. Canadian manufacturer Eurocom has a cunning solution: shoehorn desktop components into a laptop chasis. The results is the beefy D900C Phantom-X, with a desktop processor and the option ( as tested) of dual SLI graphic cards.
The dual NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX graphics cards with 512mb of onboard RAM support the various shader architectures , as well as 64 bit processing, making the Phantom as adept at 3D rendering and onboard graphical processing as a full desktop PC.
The Phantom whupped even Apple’s top-line Max Pro in the benchmark stakes, recording some starling Cinebench results. Video-editing was similarly slick, handling full-definition HD files like no other laptop we’ve encountered.
But the downside of such power is the laptop’s size, weight and battery life. The 17-inch glossy screen dilutes and reflects colours-not a good sign for creative work. While it’s a great screen in other respects, anyone working in a colour-critical environment will find it irksome.
More pressing still is the Phantom’s woeful battery life. We managed to run it for a measly 52 minutes unplugged . But at almost 7kg, the laptop’s probability is already diminished , so it’s unlikely to ever be far from an energy source. The noise of four fans to cool it also makes sound-editing problematic to say the least.
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