Desktop notebook found under a Rock
1 Feb 2008 | 12:08 GMT
Pentium 4-a-like returns
TAKING ADVANTAGE of the green team's recently announced 8800 SLI graphics card for notebooks, Rock has been beavering away to create a notebook that not only has dual-chip graphics, but a quad-core processor.
Yes, the chassis is an absolutely behemoth and ugly as sin, saved only by its glossy black stylings. There's no Penryn - this is old-school 65nm quad core, no less. In fact, its an X6800 desktop chip, which harks back to the old Pentium 4 laptops of old.
Buyers can also have the system outfitted with a pair of 500GB drives for a total of 1TB of storage. Optical duties are handled by an HD-DVD drive.
The Rock Xtreme SL8, as it will be called, will be available in late February for between £2500 and £3000. If you've got the backbone to match your wallet size, then we wish you the utmost enjoyment.
And we mean actual physical backbone - you're going to need it to haul this thing anywhere. µ
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