When does a laptop cease to be a laptop? At a guess, we’d say it should drop the name when it becomes big enough to crush your femurs and it is hard to actually pick up and squeeze it into another room.
Asus clearly didn’t get the memo, and its NX90JQ-A1 is huge in every way, including the name. The screen of this “laptop” is an 18.4-inch monster, bigger than the TV we had when I was growing up, and the entire machine measures almost 22-inches across. It’s heavy, too, weighing in at 9.4-pounds.
But it’s those speakers that really push this machine from plain weird to silly. They’re made in collaboration with Bang & Olufsen, and are fed by an 11-Watt amp that is apparently powerful enough not to need a separate sub-woofer. Clearly this, along with the 1080p display and the slot-loading Blu-ray drive, make this a semi-portable media-center more than a proper notebook. The dual 640GB 7,200rpm hard-drives really prove this, offering plenty of storage for movies and music.
Inside, things are similarly outsized. A 1.6GHz Intel Core i7 quad-core processor is joined by the stock 8GB RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M graphics card (LAN parties!).
The oddest feature, though, is the trackpad, or rather, trackpads. There are two of them, one on each side, making this as annoying as a desktop to actually use.
How much does this ridiculous folly cost? $2,500, plus change. And you’d better put in some money for an extension cord, too: the NX90JQ-A1’s battery lasts for less than three hours, and is not removable.
Asus NX90JQ-A1 test [PC Mag]
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