For few, Netbooks is everything they need. And for people, like the one who are reading this blog, needs something extra from the world. A complete desktop replacement.

Maingear claims that their eX-L 18 laptop is the world’s fastest. I’m not sure if that claim is 100% true, but one thing is for sure, this lappy is powered packed, real desktop replacement.

This 18.4-inch laptop is powered by configurations including an Intel Core 2 Extreme quad processor, dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M graphics cards, 8GB of RAM, three 2.5″ SATA or SSD drives (in RAID if you wish), and Blu-ray setups that cost from $3,000 to $6,500.

Let’s have a look at the attractive features which makes it pretty unique:

Basically, there are 3 CPU Platforms to choose from:

-Intel Core™ 2 Duo Processor P8700 (2.53GHz x 2)

-Intel Core™ 2 Duo Processor T9600 (2.8GHz x 2)

-Intel Core™ 2 Extreme Processor X9300 (2.53GHz x 4) 45w

Motherboard: Running on PM45/ICH9-M Intel Platform

GPU: Dual 1GB (2GB Total) NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 280m in SLI

HDD: Single Hard Drive:

-7200 RPM, up to 500GB SATA

– Solid State Drive 80GB SATA

Dual Raid0 Hard Drives: 7,200 RPM  up to 1.5TB SATA (3 x 500GB)

Audio: Up to 7.1 Support through Digital Out

Ports: eSATA, HDMI, USB 2.0, and FireWire.

Battery: 12 Cell Lithium-ION Battery

Keyboard: Full size illuminated keyboard w/ separate numeric pad

Screen: LCD 18.4″, 1920×1080 (FullHd 1080p)

Dimensions: Height: 1.7 inches, Width: 15.65 inches, Depth: 11.80 inches, Weight: 9.5lbs

Specs are pretty impressive. But I’m not sure that you would spend around that much for it