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W

hen it comes to laptops,

large displays are nice and

keyboard ergonomics are

splendid, but speed is our very

best friend. So this month, we

set out to answer one simple,

burning question. Who makes

the fastest notebook in town?

With this in mind, we asked

six leading notebook vendors

to send us the meanest, most

powerful, most ass-kicking note-

books they make. In response,

we received an amazing assort-

ment of stupid-big machines.

More than 50 pounds of magne-

sium, plastic, silicon, and LCD, in

fact. From super-widescreens to

3D displays, P4 Extremes to an

Athlon 64, ATI to nVidia graphics,

one startling fact became read-

ily apparent: Today’s high-end

notebooks are edging closer and

closer to desktop power levels.

Every year, mobile computing

makes gigantic leaps in size,

power, and design.

Also apparent: Dell’s XPS

laptop is the fastest of the fast,

the strongest of the strong, the

crème de la crème. But more on

that later. Let’s start rounding up

these laptops!

APRIL 2004 MAXIMUMPC 53

*notebooks in this photo are not to scale

aster Than a Speeding Bullet!