Archive for May, 2008
Stone Aquires Rock
Stone Group and IT provider to the public sector aquired the trade and assets of Rock Group plc yesterday saying:
The acquisition will enable Stone to offer a larger range of specialist high-end Notebook products to its public sector customers.
I’m not quite sure why public sector workers need high end gaming laptops though?
The aquisition is good […]
Dell To Axe XPS Gaming Rigs
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal Dell will shortly begin phasing out its XPS gaming desktops. Apparently Dell is concerned the XPS range is eating into sales of its high-end Alienware brand, which it aquired in 2006.
To manage this Dell is apparently planning to cut four XPS gaming desktops, and update the […]
Gateway P-172X FX Gaming Laptop
The Washington Post (that well known reviewer of gaming laptops) carries a review of the Gateway P-172X FX.
The laptop features a 17-inch display with a native 1920-by-1200-resolution, a 2.4-GHz Core 2 Duo T8300 Intel CPU, 4GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, and nVidia’s GeForce Go 8800M GTS graphics board.
Overall they didn’t seem to like […]
Toshiba Announces Cell Based Laptop
Toshiba has announced that it expects to begin selling notebooks equipped with its SpursEngine graphics chip later this year. The SpursEngine chip is based on the technology that powers the PlayStation 3 gaming console’s Cell processor.
Toshiba’s management said it will put its SpursEngine SE1000 chip into multimedia-oriented notebooks - probably the company’s flagship Qosmio G40 […]
Hitachi Announces TravelStar 320GB Laptop Hard Disk At 7,200rpm
The 2.5-inch Travelstar 7K320 offers 320GB of storage, up from the previous 200GB. Hitachi also claims that the drive can boost application performance by up to 12 per cent, and to have reduced power consumption by 22 per cent.
The drive connects across a SATA 3Gb/s interface, or alternatively 1.5Gb/s for the models that feature […]
Rock Appoints Administrators
Rock Group Plc (Rock) has appointed Dominic Wong and David Langton of Deloitte & Touche LLP as Joint Administrators of Rock Group Plc (“Rock”). The Administrators are working with the management of Rock to attempt to secure a sale of the business as a going concern.
The official announcement explains:
The failure of Rock is partly attributed […]