Rock Direct Xtreme XT Chalks Up Fastest LaptopAward

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Rock direct are not a household name outside Great Britain, however in gaming circles they are well respected. The Xtreme XT - a notebook equipped with an ATI Mobility Radeon X800 graphics chip - has just racked up a coveted best performance award.

The "BestPerformance Laptop" of 2005, according to What Laptop Magazine,is Rockdirect's Xtreme XT. To be more exact, it was themagazine's readers that voted the XT numero uno, largely thanksto it's gaming capability (ATI Mobility Radeon X800 graphicschip), and speed-one of the quickest on the planet in 2005.

Rockdirect may not be a household name outside of the U.K., nodoubt, but it's making a name for itself in speed-freak circles.The company focuses strictly on producing cutting-edgerocketships like the XT, and since it's founding in 1992,Rockdirect has grown to become one of the largest manufacturersof laptops in the United Kingdom.

It started out as Rock Computers, one of five founding membersof the trade organization called PCS, which was established toensure fairness and set business practice standards in theinformation technology industry. It was during these early yearsthat Rock put out such "beasts" as the NP-101, with its 16 MHzprocessor, 1 MB of RAM, and 20 MB of hard drive. And the screen?A 8.5-inch mono LCD.

Since those early years, Rock has dedicated itself toinnovation, testing, and more testing-until it has becomesynonymous with many of the major breakthroughs in the laptop world. Again, we're talking here with the speed-freak world, butthat's not to say that the Xtreme XT and other Rockdirectnotebooks don't have anything to offer to the general computingpublic-at home, in the office, or in the classroom,notably Rock Direct's Pegasus TL notebook.

If anything, the company offers direct to the consumer deliverywith the utmost in customer service. That includes a unique3-year collect-and-return warranty, along with lifetime phonesupport. The sum total of all this support is one of the mostcomprehensive coverages from any manufacturer out there-Xtreme XThigh speed or no speed at all.

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