Pegasus 210 by Rock Puts MacBook Air in its Crosshairs
There is no question that the Pegasus 210 by Rock is a sweet-looking laptop. With a slim case, magnesium alloy chassis and a weight just over two pounds, the P210 is a clear entry into the micro-notebook market. It’s also no slouch in terms of specs, packing a heck of a punch into the tiny 11.7" x 8.2" x 0.6"-1.2" case.
- Intel® A110 Processor 800MHz, 512KB Cache, 400MHz
- 12" WXGA X-Glass Screen (1280 x 800)
- 1GB DDR2 667MHz
- 80GB 4200rpm ATA Hard Drive
- Windows XP Professional or Vista Business Edition
- 802.11a/g/n and Euro-spec 3G / HSDPA
- 3 USB ports
- 6 hour battery life
It also enters the marketplace at $1800, directly in line with the lesser of two MacBook Air models. Provided you’re running XP (yikes, Vista with an 800 MHz processor and 1 GB of RAM?) many would say that this puppy is a clear Air killer. Granted, Rock doesn’t have a presence in the US so don’t expect to see much of the P210 over here. If it packed US 3G though, we’d be all over this thing like white on rice.
[Via Electric Pig]
On Apr 5, 2008 @ 2:23 pm, Dtest5477 Said:
yeah, sounds incredibly under powered to me.
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On Apr 5, 2008 @ 2:40 pm, Paul Kusiak Said:
get the shift instead. specs seem similar. only reason to get this is bigger screen.
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On Apr 5, 2008 @ 5:12 pm, danc Said:
800MHz vs 1.6 core2duo
Windows vs OS X
Yeah, them’s some fine crosshairs!
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On Apr 5, 2008 @ 7:17 pm, Jeff B. Said:
Yea, I’ll take this over that shitty apple any day.
I love how anything that makes apple seem bad Dtest is all over like this is shit. It’s funny because he’s turned into an everything troll.
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On Apr 5, 2008 @ 8:37 pm, SNP Said:
“packing a heck of a punch”
you mean the fruit juice kinda punch?
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On Apr 6, 2008 @ 12:42 am, Mr Hopkins Said:
Mac book air killer? The only thing getting merked is my pockets. You’d think for almost two stacks they’d throw in an external optical drive and memory stick. Geez louise at least a faster processor!
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On Apr 6, 2008 @ 3:02 am, loyd Said:
Sounds wonderful. I’ve been looking for a hot, slow lappy with a tiny-ass screen.
Seriously is there really a market out there for these things? I mean I do okay and I can only afford to have 1 computer at a time…Plus is the time and energy it would take to keep both computers synchronized worth it?
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On Apr 6, 2008 @ 3:14 am, AT Said:
The MacBookAir killer is the Lenovo X300. Unfortunately, beacuse it’s so good, BGR won’t talk about it.
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On Apr 6, 2008 @ 8:57 am, DavidB Said:
Dunno what BGR is smokin’, and I’m certainly no APPL fan, but this thing isn’t even CLOSE to comparable!
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On Apr 6, 2008 @ 9:39 am, Dizzle Said:
How does it kill the MBA with lesser specs and a matching price? At the very least, you get the MBA and put Vista on it (and it CAN run Vista in the base config, unlike this POS).
Maybe you’re confusing ‘killer’ with ‘gets killed by’…kinda like how Peter Griffin confused ‘for’ with ‘from’ when he gave all of the family’s Christmas presents to Toys for Tots because the cards said things like “For Chris” and “For Meg”, which he thought meant “From Chris” and “From Meg”. Brian said there was a memo about it, but it said “For Peter” so he must have thought it was “From Peter”.
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On Apr 6, 2008 @ 11:02 am, Galvatron Said:
the x300 is ok duo 1.2 ghz if you nototice thpgh all thes super thin lap sacrifice the spead an features for the super thin looks
althoghif your gonna drop 4 gand for a lap might as well get one of thos pahntom x quadcore laptops
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On Apr 11, 2008 @ 5:49 am, Lindsay Said:
I don’t think theis one is better than Macbook Air. there are more powerful competitors for the MBA: http://www.maconair.com/macbook_vs_sony_vaio
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