Qosmio X300-11W - SLI graphic cards in future

Hi,
Im thinking about this laptop. I want it as a replacement of desktop. It seems to be very very good but I have a question.
There is now 9800GTX - does any one of you know if would be available to buy another SAME card to make it SLI?
Also - speed of HDD. It doesnt say what speed is it. 5400 or 7200.
Is there even some one who has some experiences with this laptop or do you know some websites which says something more about this one.
Thanks

Hi
The X300 series is new on the market so I didnt find many sources which provide detailed infos about this notebook but I found some details. Thanks to google and to the Toshiba User Manual website (you can find it on the Toshiba European support homage) ;)
> Also - speed of HDD. It doesnt say what speed is it. 5400 or 7200.
There are 2 HDD installed and both seems to work with 5400rpm
I didnt find any details regarding the SLI option and about the possibility to upgrade the notebook with the second GPU chip but I doubt this would be possible.

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