{"id":47,"date":"2007-11-22T17:24:24","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T06:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=47"},"modified":"2008-11-10T15:38:02","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T04:38:02","slug":"worlds-most-powerful-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Most Powerful Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/gloss_9261.jpg\" alt=\"Sager NP9261\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em> [The above image is taken from Sager&#8217;s official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagernotebook.com\/product_customed.php?pid=14886\">website<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I noticed this ludicrously powerful notebook computer in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notebookreview.com\/default.asp?newsID=4096\">news<\/a> today. It has a quad-core CPU, dual 8700M-GT video cards in SLI mode and triple 200GB hard drives. It&#8217;s so powerful in fact, that instead of having a battery, it claims to have a built-in UPS instead. And since it weighs 11.5 pounds without including its power brick, can you really call this thing a laptop?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m an tech enthusiast myself, but this item serves as a perfect illustration of my puzzlement at how some people go completely crazy in an overboard way over the latest and greatest gadgets. I play a lot of computer games so naturally I need a gaming computer, but from my observations there are people who will happily pay ridiculous amounts of money just to be able to own powerful computers that they don&#8217;t really take full advantage of. Similarly, I can appreciate the utility of devices like mobile phones, PDAs and even ebook readers but I&#8217;m certainly not the kind of person who buys them just for the sake of buying them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The above image is taken from Sager&#8217;s official website.] I noticed this ludicrously powerful notebook computer in the news today. It has a quad-core CPU, dual 8700M-GT video cards in SLI mode and triple 200GB hard drives. It&#8217;s so powerful in fact, that instead of having a battery, it claims to have a built-in UPS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=47\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World&#8217;s Most Powerful Laptop<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[140,141],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","tag-pc","tag-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}