Laptops Arena

While most gaming notebooks stretch their chassis to accommodate a massive screen, the Widow PC Sting 917X2 builds up; this is the thickest model we’ve seen. The right side features two DVD drive bays, and the left side can house dual hard drives.

The Sting 917x2’s price/performance ratio is out of alignment. The systems from Alienware, Dell, and Vigor offer much more power for significantly less money. With remarkable SLI systems hovering around $3,000, dropping over five grand for a dual-core system doesn’t make sense.

Emphasizing dual core over SLI allows for much better media application performance, but the system’s 13-pound weight is simply too taxing to make the Sting 917x2 a truly portable media studio.

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