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    Rock rolls out 12in, 1kg sub-notebook

    UK notebook specialist Rock has begun punting an alternative to Apple's MacBook Air and Toshiba's Portégé R500: a 12in Windows Vista-running laptop that weighs just a kilo.
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    Re: Rock rolls out 12in, 1kg sub-notebook

    It's certainly a great achievement that the notebook is only 1kg in weight. However, why you want to pay so much for what is relatively a low spec machine?

    Apple Air also has very low spec but in my opinion most people buy it for it's form rather then function.

    The picture shown here about this Rock, it just look like any other notebook.

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    Re: Rock rolls out 12in, 1kg sub-notebook

    It does seem rather under spec and over priced. I bought a Samsung Q30 (Dell X1 equiv.) for £1200 2 years ago, only 512MB of ram but 1.1GHz processor, 2 batteries giving 9 hours+ battery life and a firewire dvd-combo drive.

    This is a distinct step backwards.

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    Re: Rock rolls out 12in, 1kg sub-notebook

    Most Rock items are overpriced though
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    Re: Rock rolls out 12in, 1kg sub-notebook

    however, it is nice that they're thinking of the customer though and providing the extra AC adaptor and the option to not have all the trial programs pre-installed. it'd be nice if that was the norm...

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    Re: Rock rolls out 12in, 1kg sub-notebook

    if this had come out 4 years ago but now, its old and crusty tech isnt it? like getting a desktop p4
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    Re: Rock rolls out 12in, 1kg sub-notebook

    Quote Originally Posted by jamiecockrill View Post
    however, it is nice that they're thinking of the customer though and providing the extra AC adaptor and the option to not have all the trial programs pre-installed. it'd be nice if that was the norm...
    It make sense to me not to include these trial-ware stuff just for the cost of supporting by them!

    Regarding many people often making ill-fated decisions based on form over function, it's sad but true.

    One of my colleagues described to me that an Apple Air is as close as IT's equivalent of pornography :-(

    Temptations, temptations...

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    Re: Rock rolls out 12in, 1kg sub-notebook

    Parm,

    LOVE that headline!

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