Laptops running cutting-edge equipment like Intel's desktop gaming chips usually get hot and have multiple fans to dissipate the heat. These machines are built for performance and not battery life.

"The battery is more of a uninterrupted power supply, to ensure that if the power goes out you will have power again. With the power in these systems, expecting to run on battery for long periods of time isn't a good idea," said Braden Taylor, a Eurocom spokesman, in an e-mail.

The combination of more bandwidth, memory and storage make Panther 4.0 good for virtualization, the company said. Servers have had bandwidth issues when deploying virtual machines, but the new machines should offer a larger pipe to deploy virtual machines quicker.

Intel introduced the Xeon E5 chips last month, and the company said that the new chips are up to 80 percent faster than predecessors introduced in March 2010. One of the improvements with the chip was support for PCI-Express 3.0, which provides more bandwidth for data to loop quicker inside computers.

Servers populated with many solid-state disk drives could benefit from the faster data transfers provided by PCI-Express 3.0, said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Insight 64. But it's hard to see the laptop with a few storage slots benefitting from PCIe 3.0, Brookwood said.