Apr
08
2008
The Rock is a UMPC in a Big-Boy Body
Posted by: Blair Mathis in Uncategorized, tags: Rock PegasusThe Rock, a 12.1″ laptop, is hardly the size of an ultra-portable mobile machine. It only weighs 1.2kg, however.
The thing that makes this interesting is the architecture it is based on – that of the now-popular netbooks. It has a 6-hour battery life, and is low power at 1.6Ghz. This machine is intended to be a larger web-surfer.
The surprising part? Though this machine is based on the same platform of the netbooks, and is hardly powerful enough to compete with other notebooks, it is priced at a whopping $2000+.
It makes me wonder what they have hidden in this machine. For this price, one could by a very nice 17″ gaming machine.
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