SlashGear Japan
Clearly weight was the main concern in this notebook. It’s a 12-incher aimed at competing with the MBA and X300 and Portege R500, and it’s made by a company in the UK, and it sucks.
It has an 800MHz Dothan Pentium M processor, its about a 4 year old technology, it comes with a meager 1GB of RAM, an FSB of 400MHz and an 80GB PATA HDD operating at 4200 RPMs. The display is a paltry 1280×800 and is driven by some integrated Intel graphics.
There is no optical drive, but there are 3 USB ports, a gigabit Ethernet jack, 802.11 a/g/n, Bluetooth, and optional 3G HSDPA connectivity alongside a PC Card slot, a 4-in-1 card reader, and a VGA port. All of that will cost you £939 plus an additional £117 for the 3G module should you opt for it. So with 3G you are looking at a price over two grand USD, and I’m sorry, but for the performance hit this thing takes to bring you a sub 1kg weight and a claimed 6 hour battery life. I’d take the hit to weight and battery life for a better notebook, and honestly with these mediocre specs I don’t see how it can expect to compete with the MacBook Air considering it’s cheaper and better, unless you require a Windows Vista notebook, which this thing is.
[via reghardware]
2 Responses to “Rock Pegasus P210 ultra-portable notebook – not for performance fiends”
Amber May 19, 2008
‘Couldn’t agree more with this review. Even in it’s more basic forms, Vista really benefits from a reasonably fast processor, lots of RAM, and a decently-fast hard drive. Lacking any one of those things means the machine will crawl. Of course, there’s always the option to outfit it with Linux, but then you’re paying a premium for the size and older hardware included. What were they thinking? I’ll pass, not ‘cos of the review, but because of the specs. Owning this would not be a happy experience, and I appreciate the straightforward review.
NeutralRowan September 7, 2008
In my opiion get the macbook air……its cheaper and in my view better In the artical it claims a reason you would buy this over the air is vista. but you can bootcamp vista on the air because its got osx10.5
Neutral