The M:172 seems to be a relative newcomer to the VoodooPC range. It doesn’t even have a description on their site. However they do claim that it is optimised for gaming, digital content creation, home or small office and as a media centre.
It starts at US$4794 and ranges as high as US$5586 (more with the different paint jobs).
It features the Intel Core 2 Duo processor and an Nvidia GeForce 7950 512MB MxM graphics chip.
Predictably, there’s nothing much on the web (in English) regarding this model. However it looks like it may be in a bit of a sweet spot. The ‘M’ tells us that it is still in VoodooPC’s ‘middleweight’ category, but with the Core 2 Duo and 7950, this is a machine I would seriously consider as a gaming machine.
It is worth mentioning that this graphics option is Directx 9, not Dirextx 10. None of the VoodooPC models outlined so far have the option. I’ll be interested to see whether either of the ‘H’ models are Dirext10 capable.
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