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Friday, April 18, 2008
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The Pegasus 210 (from £799) is a 12-inch ultra-portable laptop designed to meet the everyday demands of business professionals. The machine pretty much sucks at running games and high-end multimedia, but for number crunchers who can't afford a ThinkPad it might be just the ticket. In fact, if it wasn't for the jaw-dropping ThinkPad X300 (from £1790), the Pegasus 210 might actually be a contender for your cash.
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
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Honestly, my feelings about the rock Xtreme 770 are a bit mixed. On the one hand, the Xtreme 770 offers very good gaming performance, application performance and comes with some nice extras and a good warranty. Even the bag that comes bundled with the laptop is nice, though the laptop itself is quite heavy - but that's to be expected. On the other hand though, the battery life won't let you even get through one two hour film and I still feel that the concept of a gaming laptop is one that hasn't been explored properly yet. Just because it doesn't have a separate monitor, keyboard and speakers doesn't mean that this 17-inch beast suddenly becomes portable!
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Friday, February 9, 2007
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After successfully integrating Intel Core 2 Duo processor into high performance gaming laptops, Rock has identified that Intel's new processor also offers a great level of performance and power saving for education and business users. Not only does the silver-and-black Pegasus T12 have the computation power to run typical business applications and Windows Vista with ease, but its 10,000mAh extended battery (you'll have to excuse the unsightly bulge at the rear of the system, and the 3.1kg weight) means that the Pegasus T12 can operate with typical office applications for over 7 hours - perfect from most business trips.
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
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UK-based Rock is consistently first to market with cutting-edge laptops at competitive prices, but its systems somehow fail to get us excited. The Pegasus 665 is no different. The 15.4-inch system is extremely versatile, offering Intel Core 2 Duo processing for playing games, watching movies or getting your work done on the move, up to 2GB DDR2 memory, and nVidia 3D graphics chipset. So what's the problem? Well, it's just so boring.
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006
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The latest addition to Rock's popular Pegasus range, the svelte Pegasus 335 (from £722 ex. VAT) features Intel Centrino technology with a Core 2 Duo processor that offers a great level of performance for a thin and light laptop. Weighing just over 2kg and only 34mm high, the system manages to pack in an excellent 13.3-inch WXGA display (most ultra-portables have a 12.1-inch screen) with X-Glass technology (blacks are truly black and colours are amazingly rich) and a digital TV tuner as standard (doesn't support MCE, Windows XP Home pre-installed), Rock's Pegasus 335 is a neat portable entertainment centre.
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Thursday, June 23, 2005
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Thinking of the Xtreme Ti in strict DTR terms, the overall impression is favourable. You can zip around Windows XP, thanks, in main part, to Rock's use of 2 60GB 7,200RPM laptop drives that are pre-configured in RAID0. Browsing around in 2D mode, the machine felt faster than Dell's Inspiron XPS Gen 2, which shipped with a single 100GB 4,200RPM drive. The screen is a hit-and-miss affair. You'll either love the high-contrast 17-inch (1680x1050) screen or immediately dislike just how reflective the X-Glass-equipped panel is. Rock's got most of the performance bases covered, too, with a fast Mobility Radeon X800 (now XT) card providing decent framerates at the laptop's native resolution. There's also plenty of memory and the optical drive is decent enough...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005
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Taking a look inside the Xtreme XT, you'll see that this is a slightly lower spec machine than the Xtreme Ti I reviewed previously. There's a Pentium 4 CPU running at 3.2GHz, backed up by 1GB of memory. There's a 60GB, 7,200rpm hard disk, and of course, the graphics card. It's the graphics card that's the real star of this show, and the ATI Mobility Radeon X800 -complete with 256MB of GDDR3 memory - is still top of the
tree when it comes to mobile gaming.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005
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The specifications of the Xtreme Ti make its intentions clear. There's a 3.6GHz Pentium 4 CPU backed up by 1GB of DDR2 memory. But of course it's the graphics chipset that's really important with a gaming notebook and Rock has squeezed in ATI's latest big hitter, the Mobility Radeon X800, complete with 256MB of GDDR3 graphics memory. The MR X800 is a 12 pixel pipeline part and ATI Tool reported a core clock speed of 398MHz and a memory speed of 350MHz (700MHz effective).
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