Desktop notebook found under a Rock
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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No link, i was dreaming for the ugliest thigh scorcher ever... i guess ill have to find it myselfRock is late to the party
Rock isn't the first company to shove a quad core into a notebook. The folks over at Sager Notebook have had a model for some time. It offers the Q6600, Q6700, and the X6800 for CPU's, as well as the E6850/6870 C2D's. 8800mGTX SLI is also an option. But, like the Rock model, it is a giant brickish beast that probably has enough battery life to turn it on and post windows. Nothing like having a 10-pound "portable" computer in your bag. Or, on another scale of measurement, it weighs approximately 3.2 Mac Book Airs per the Jobsonian Standard.Fire Sale
You forgot to mention the inevitable recall due to heat related crashing. Have they forgotten the Toshiba Satellites already?