The 'Panther' bit isn't referring to the not-so-lithe chassis

Buying a gaming laptop isn't easy. Not only do you have an ever-growing swathe of systems to navigate, but the spectre of desktop gaming is a constant thorn in the platform's side. Can a new chipset, processor and graphics core represent a new era for the roaming gamer? Not quite.

Desktop replacements are an acquired taste to say the very least. Pro-gamers may love their balance of power and mobility, but for most of us they present something of a quandary.

Given the Phantom's spec list it comes as no surpirise that this is the fastest laptop we've ever benchmarked. The combination of a 2.66GHz Core 2 Quad desktop processor with a wide FSB and super fast DDR2 RAM, rockets it through productivity benchmarks.