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Pioneer Dreambook M86, the most fully specced laptop we've ever seen

Friday May 08, 2009
Written by Zara Baxter
Tags: Pioneer | M86 | performance
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$4699
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Noblejoker
May 11, 2009 11:39 PM
 And of course the big question with any portable device is battery life. I guess we can safely assume this would be minimal given the specs (and no mention of a high capacity battery as standard) $4700 is a lot of money for something to play games on when it will only run for an hour and a half. You could buy a reasonable laptop with better battery life AND a desktop to game on at home for this money


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