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Sting 715 Gaming Laptop
LATEST AWARDS
Computer Gaming World Editor's Choice Award
Congrats to the whole WidowPC team
for winning Computer
Gaming World Editors' Choice award (March, 2005)!
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STANDARD FEATURES
Fastest Assembly and Shipping in the Industry
On average it takes our engineers about three to five business days to
assemble your custom made laptop. That is the fastest standard assembly
time any where in the world for a made to order laptop.
Priority Rush, Elite Courier Service*
If you absolutely must have your laptop delivered lightening fast, we have an
elite, premium service through which we ship within 24 hours and send the laptop
to your address via SAME DAY courier. That means you order the laptop
today and receive it tomorrow or the next day. To select this option,
simply select "24 Hour Assembly with Elite Courier" during shopping cart checkout.
West Coast customers generally receive the laptop within 1 - 5 hours of shipment. East
Coast customers will receive it within 5 - 24 hours of shipment using Same
Day Air or Next Day Air Courier. So, the maximum time from order to
delivery signature is generally about 48 hours when using this service.
*- Only available within the continental U.S.
Fully Upgradeable Gaming Laptop
In addition to being the most powerful gaming laptop, the Sting 715 is
also the most upgradeable gaming laptop currently on the market. Everything
on the laptop excluding the motherboard and chipset is able to be
upgradeable with ease. Special underside access panels allow
the memory, video card and battery to upgraded more easily than a
desktop. The hard drives and optical drives snap in and out like
Legos Even the processor is upgradeable. So, say good riddance
to the days when the only way to upgrade your laptop was to buy a
new one.
An Army of High Speed Ports
 1 IEEE 1394 FireWire Port (Mini DC in Jack) - Fast Infrared (FIR), IrDA 1.1 Compliant, Support 4M Bit FIR
- 4 USB 2.0 Ports
- 1 Serial Port
- 1 Parallel Port with ECP/EPP Support
- 1 External Keyboard/Mouse Port
- 1 DVI Video Output Port
- 1 Kensington Lock Port
- 1 S-Video Jack for Video-in
- 1 S-Video Jack for TV Output
- 4 Audio Jacks for Line-Out, Microphone-In, and S/PDIF-Out
- Built-in 56K V90 Fax/Modem and 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet LAN
Card
PCI-Express Graphics
 The first gaming laptop
to feature the PCI-Express bus architecture, the Sting 715 is able
to blow games away with the latest graphics technology. PCI-Express
system bus technology allows for increased bus bandwidth required
for 3D games, 3D graphics development, high-definition video and
other high performance, graphics intensive applications.
Intel 915P Chipset
Gaming laptop motherboards based on the Intel® 915P
Express chipset deliver ultra-smooth system responsiveness with
PCI Express graphics cards, Intel's Matrix storage technology,
800 MHz system bus, and dual-channel DDR and DDR memory for bandwidth-intensive
applications such as games, 3D graphics, high definition audio
and video.
Intel High Definition Sound
 Intel HD Audio delivers an outstanding audio experience
for gamers with significant improvements over previous generation
integrated audio and sound cards. Intel HD Audio hardware is capable of
delivering the support and sound quality for up to eight channels at 192
kHz/32-bit quality.
Dolby Laboratories selected Intel HD Audio to
bring Dolby-quality surround sound technologies to the PC, as part
of their recently announced PC Logo Program. The combination of
these technologies marks an important milestone in delivering quality
digital audio.
Cutting Edge Media Drives
 With
a 7-in-1 Media Card Reader and external USB floppy drive, the Sting
715 gaming laptop supports more types of media than any other laptop.
The media card reader supports MS, MS Pro, SD, MMC, CF, MD, and SM format memory cards in addition to the standard
3.5" USB floppy drive.
Miscellaneous Info
Dimensions:
14.178"(W) x 11.49"(D) x 1.95"(H)
Weight: 9.1 lbs. with battery
Warranty: One year parts and labor warranty upgradeable to two or three years
Tech Support: Life time, toll-free support with the same people who
built it (not out-sourced)
CUSTOMIZABLE FEATURES
Pentium 4 Desktop Processor with Hyper-Threading  The Sting 715 gaming laptop outperforms most desktops and is rated as "the
fastest laptop on the planet" because of the full desktop P4 500 and
600 processor power it delivers. WidowPC is currently the only
gaming laptop company to feature the 600 series P4 in a gaming
laptop. The 600 series P4 is a major performance boost with 2 megabytes
of level 2 cache (ultra fast memory). The 600 series
processor introduces the 64 bit extensions called EM64T, delivering
RAM totals over 4 GB and Microsoft's x64 (64 bit) edition of Widows XP.
Enhanced SpeedStep is also introduced, reducing power consumption by dynamically
adjusting voltage and core clock speed when the processor is not
in high demand.
The processor can be configured up to the P4 570J 3.8 GHz or the P4 670
3.8 Ghz including Intel's Hyper-Threading technology. Hyper-Threading
allows the single processor to function as two logical processors,
effectively doubling performance in some cases. Additionally, the
P4 600 series has thermal management and cooling properties that
make it much more suitable for high performance gaming laptops
than the AMD Athlon 64 family that we prefer for desktops and towers.
[Configurable
from 512 MB to 4 GB]
Windows XP Operating System with Service Pack 2 + CD and Manual
Unlike many of our more skimpy competitors, WidowPC provides the full operating
system with registration codes, shrink wrapped CDs and the Windows
manual. A recovery disk with all of the necessary drivers is also included,
just in case you want to start from scratch. Note that this is
impossible with Alienware and several other competitors as they
do not provide the full operating system but only a "recovery disk"
with an image of the hard drive as it was installed on your computer.
So, if they installed it wrong, you are stuck. Additionally, there
is no way to customize your own installation or install with different
hardware other than your original installation configuration.
[Choose
from Windows XP Home, XP Pro and XP Media Center Edition]
15 Inch Wide-Screen
Available in WUXGA 1900 x 1200 ClearView and WSXGA+ 1680 x 1050 GlassView
resolutions, the WidowPC Sting 715 gaming laptop once again beats
the other gaming laptop companies to the punch with higher resolution,
breathtaking visual real estate. WidowPC ClearView
technology virtually eliminates screen glare while increase detail
through a higher resolution than ever before accomplished in a
gaming laptop. While the GlassView technology makes for a ultra
crisp and clear display. This is perfect for greater range of view
in 3D games as well as digital content creation. It's also just cool!
Who can say no to a huge, ultra high resolution, crystal clear
LCD display?
[Configurable
from WUXGA ClearView to WSXGA+ GlassView]
Apacer DDR Memory
WidowPC only uses Apacer RAM
in our gaming laptops. This significantly increases performance
over the generic ram our competitors use, as well as greatly
decreasing the probability of RAM failure. When choosing RAM, always stick
with a high quality brand. It saves money in the long term and
significantly increases performance.
[Configurable
from 512 MB to 2 GB]
Three Media Bays
Even with the smaller form factor, the Sting 715 boasts a large storage capacity and
can hold two Fujitsu SATA hard drives and an optical drives or two optical drives and one hard drive.
This is a sweet machine and you'll find yourself awed when you
first see it up close. The slim form factor of the drives delivers
a ground breaking capacity for a total of 200 Gigs of hard drive
storage and a double layer DVD burner, the Sting 715 gaming
laptop is a mobile gamers dream come true.
[Customize
your media bays now]
Revolutionary FuJitsu Serial ATA 150 Hard Drive Technology
 The
Sting 715 gaming laptop now supports SATA-150 hard drive technology.
The Fujitsu SATA hard drives featured support a blazing transfer
rate of 150 MBps while ATA drives support a comparably slower rate
of 100 MBps. Additionally, eventually SATA hard drives will reach
transfer rates of 300 MBps and maybe even 600 MBps and you'll be
able to upgrade to those insanely fast drives using the Sting 715
chassis.
Fujitsu was chosen as our hard drive partner because Fujitsu is the first
company to market a SATA-based drive in the 2.5 inch form factor.
Aside from increased compatibility with laptop systems, the SATA
interface also makes for a much more efficient RAID configuration.
The SATA interface also makes it possible to support native command
queuing, another first in the notebook market. Command queuing
adds a nice performance boost to the hard drive because it allows
for concurrent, multiple requests to the device. This is particularly
effective at speeding up total performance when used with the Intel
Pentium 4's Hyper-Threading or with dual core or dual processing
capability. To boil this technical topic down to the nuts and bolts
-- Fujitsu makes the fastest hard drives for the elite hardware
and gaming enthusiast.
[Customize
from 40 GB single drive to 2 x 100 GB for 200 GB total storage]
220W Power Supply
Consistent, clean power is one of the most essential elements in a high
performance gaming laptop. Powerful hardware demands a lot of power
from the power supply. If it doesn't get the power then it will stall and
stutter. That is why WidowPC was the first gaming laptop company
to introduce a 200W power supply for a laptop. This herculean AC
adapter supplies ample power for a blazing P4 processor, graphics
card, dual hard drives, dual optical drives plus any peripherals
powered through the quad USB 2.0 ports. We've seen desktops less
powerful power supplies.
[Add
an additional power supply while you customize your laptop]
Cutting Edge Video Cards
 This
gaming laptop powerhouse sports nVidia's GeForce 6800 go ULTRA
256MB, Quadro FX Go 1400 256MB or ATI's Radeon x800 256MB graphics
cards all making use of the x16 PCI Express bus architecture and
next generation DDR3 dedicated video memory. DDR3 memory is a big
performance leap ahead of the DDR2 RAM used by most of our competitors.
Chips based on the DDR3 standard can run at speeds up to 800 MHz and deliver
data rates of up to 1.6 gigabits per second. This makes for much
faster games and less "rubber banding" and less client side lag
in MMOs like World of Warcraft and EverQuest 2.
[Customize
your video card now]
Deluxe Carrying Cases
  The
WidowPC Sting 715 comes with a free deluxe carrying case (black,
with shoulder strap and handle). It includes a document pouch inside
the main compartment, thick padding to protect your pristine hardware
from bumps and scratches and an outer compartment for your mouse,
AC adapter, etc. However, since this prince of laptops weighs about
9 pounds you might consider upgrading the carrying case to a custom
designed laptop backpack.
[Customize
your carrying case now]
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