The X1 CA is a high-end gaming notebook with a 220w power supply, NVIDIA 285M GTX GPU, Core i7-720QM or i7-920XM mobile CPU, 2x 2GB of Qimonda DDR3-1066 RAM, that is going to compete with the ASUS and Alienware notebook gaming lineups.

Conclusion: Allthough this noteboke has the lowest X1 CA specifications it performed very well. With a dual GTX 285M in SLi mode, SSD RAID and a Core i7-920XM, the Performance would probably go through the roof. Since it is not very portable it can be seen as a replacement for a desktop computer.

Box contents: basic user-guide, a remote control for media playback and finally a microfibre towel for cleaning the notebook.

Connectors:

Left: Blu-Ray drive, 7in1 cardreader, 2 x USB2.0 ports, GBit LAN and Mini-Firewire, DVI, HDMI, 34mm Xpress Card slot. The 1080i HDMI input is designed to connect media players with HDMI output or the Xbox 360/PS3.

Right: Kensington lock slot, USB2.0 port, USB/eSATA combo port, a CATV jack

Back: DC-in jack.

There's no DisplayPort.

Screen:

The 18.4" full-HD display without LED backlighting is very clear and bright, has a glossy coating to enhance colours and has very good Viewing angles.

HDD Configuration:

Three Seagate 500GB 7200rpm hard drives (ST9500420AS), 2 of them are configured in a RAID 0 array with 16mb cache. Any RAID setup is possible.

Benchmarks: Photoshop CS4 64-bit, Business Pro, Cinebench R10 & R11.5 x64, dBpoweramp, Adobe ME, Easy CD Converter, Sandra, Black Magic Disk Speed Test, Aliens VS Predator, COD: Modern Warfare 2, Crysis: Warhead, PowerDVD 9, CoreCodec, Badaboom, GPUz, Fraps.