A laptop custom-built for video editors that packs a hefty price
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 chassis. The result is the beefy D900C Phantom-X, with a desktop processor and the option (as tested) of dual SLI graphics 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 Mac Pro in the benchmark stakes, recording some startling 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 portability 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.
The Phantom whupped even Apple’s top-line Mac Pro in the benchmark stakes, recording some startling 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 portability 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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