After we published our review on the METABOX 740u (based on Clevo D900T), we received some emails asking about SLi notebook systems. So the last few days DigitalReviews Network has been trying to find out more about any OEM plans to use this technology in a notebook.

As you might already know, the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800GTX is compatible with NVIDIA's SLi technology. This technology allows dual Nvidia GeForce Go 7800GTX cores to be running on a single notebook. But since the release of NVIDIA's series 7 mobile GPU no further details of notebooks with SLi have been released.

A source close to ITC, a market leader of custom made notebooks in Australia, has informed us that there is indeed such a notebook in development. Unfortunately, no details on the CPU or chipset were given, but according to our source, the new SLi notebook will be shipping by late February to early March. Heat and power consumption has always been the big issue with developing such a system. According to another source, this notebook will have 2 cooling systems. One will be the traditional intake from the underside of the laptop with the vents at the rear. The second will have a blower-style tunnel system taking air from one side of the notebook, cooling the 2 x GeForce Go 7800GTX GPUs and blowing it out the other side. By the sounds of it, this will not be a quiet system. But it should make up for that with its extreme gaming performance. This notebook should easily score 11,000+ 3Dmark05 points.

DigitalReviews Network is planning to have a review on this beast when it’s released.