Maingear has brought up the upgraded version of one of its famous Notebook named as theMaingear Titan 17. It is a gaming laptop and is the desktop replacement one. This gaming laptop brings an optional 3D display that uses up NVIDIA 3D Vision technology so that it can deliver stereoscopic 3D image for the addicts of games and home entertainment. As it has been provided with the NVIDIA graphics and NVIDIA 3D Vision active shutter glasses you can take the full advantage of the richest array of 3D content available. You don’t even need any type of extra IR emitter as it comes built in to the notebook. This gaming laptop is accorded with a lot of developed specifications which has been discussed below along with its price range.

This upgraded Version of Maingear Titan 17 is enabled with a 17.3″ Full HD LED‐Backlit Display with Super Clear Glare display that carries 16:9 aspect ratio and resembles a display resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. The device sports NVIDIA 3D Vision Glasses Kit Bundle and is powered with an Intel Core i7‐3930K Processor that has (3.20GHz)/(3.80GHz) in Turbo Mode and carries 12MB of L3 Cache or is powered with Intel’s Core i7‐3960X Processor Extreme Edition (3.30GHz)/(3.90GHz) in Turbo Mode and carries 15MB L3 Cache.

This Notebook supports Quad Channel DDRIII SDRAM and includes four 204Pin SODIMM sockets that supports DDR3 1333/1600MHz and the real operation frequency depends on FSB of processor. The storage capacity can be expanded up to 32GB that depends on 4GB/8GB SODIMM module. It brings nVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M GPU with 2GB GDDR5 Video Memory and is provided with a single card or Dual card in nVIDIA SLI mode. Some of the other features being MXM‐III, Type B, support PCI‐Express 16X, Microsoft DirectX 11 compatible support HDCP along with HDMI 1.4a. It has been enhanced with nVIDIA PhysX Technology and nVIDIA CUDA Technology.

In addition to the above discussed specifications this laptop comes enabled with an intel X79 Express chipset and one ExpressCard 54/34 Slot. It is provided with a 9‐in‐1 Card Reader compatible with MMC/RSMMC/MS/MS Pro/MS Duo/SD/Mini‐SD/SDHC/SDXC and is equipped with a built-in 3.0 megapixel High-Resolution Digital Video Camera. In terms of its connectivity options this Notebook is offered with Built-in Gigabit Ethernet LAN, Bluetooth V2.1 + EDR module, Internal 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN half mini card module and Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 802.11a/b/g/n wireless LAN.

This Maingear Titan 17 Gaming Laptop is carries the audio features as Built‐in High Definition audio sound system, S/PDIF Digital output, one Built‐in Microphone, five Built‐in Speakers, one Built‐in Sub woofer, THX TruStudio Pro, external 7.1CH audio output supported by headphone, microphone and Line‐in jacks. The storage options provided are such as one changeable 12.7mm(H) DVD±R/RW Combo drive, Blu‐ray/DVD±R/RW Combo drive, SATA Interface and brings three detachable 2.5″ 9.5mm(H) SATA Hard Disk Drives, Hardware RAID‐0 with 1,5 support.

It also is blessed with the security options as Kensington Lock along with the fingerprint Reader and is featured with the various interfaces such as one DVI‐I output Port, one HDMI 1.4a output Port, one Display Port 1.2, two USB 3.0 Ports, two USB 2.0 Ports, one eSATA Port (powered USB 3.0 (AC/DC) combo), one IEEE‐1394b Fire Wire, one RJ‐45 LAN (10/100/1000Mbps), one Headphone Jack, one Microphone Jack, one Line‐in Jack and one S/PDIF output Jack. The pointing device is an integrated Touchpad with multi-gesture and scrolling function, Illuminated Full size isolated keyboard with Numeric Pad, W/A/S/D gaming key, six instant buttons for Volume up, Volume down, Mute, Wi‐Fi On/Off, Bluetooth On/Off, and Camera On/Off.

Certain other things related the power of this highly powerful gaming laptop are such as System Management Mode (SMM), suspend to HDD / DRAM, carries the entire features of SMI Power Management, Doze, Sleep, suspend/Resume Mode, full Range AC Adapter 300W, AC‐in 100~240V, 50~60Hz, DC output 20V, 15A and is empowered with a removable polymer Smart Lithium‐Ion battery pack 78.44WH. The Maingear Titan 17 Gaming Laptop measures for a dimension of 16.5″ (w) x 11.3″ (d) x 2.2-2.4″ (h) and has a weight of 12.13 LBs. This newly upgraded Maingear Titan 17 gaming laptop retails for $3,499.