Rock Xtreme CTX

Rock, a company out of the UK, is one of the first to ship a notebook based on ATI’s newest mobile GPU, the ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 XT. This is an amazingly fast graphics card for a laptop, and it will be interesting to see if it is stuck inside desktop replacement style notebooks only, or if it can be put into smaller, lighter machines.

The Rock Xtreme CTX also features Intel’s new Core Duo processor, but almost everyone is throwing those in notebooks these days.

The X1800 XT has 256MB memory on board, 16 pixel shader cores, and high definition redering and anti-aliasing support. The laptop is ready to take on the next big thing in multimedia with H.264 HDTV decoding hardware acceleration built in.

The rest of the machine is much like the Xtreme CT, in that it includes a 17 inch WSXGA display, a serial ATA 7200rpm hard drive, Corsair DDR2 memory, Wi-Fi, a web camera, and Bluetooth all as standard equipment. Plus, because it’s a Rock, a 3-year warranty on parts and labour is provided for free.

The Xtreme CTX will go on general sale from April 2006.

Source: BIOS Magazine

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