Typical price: £2,230
What is it: Violently fast gaming laptop
What we think: A beefy and bold heavyweight laptop, fierce enough to give games brutal graphics clarity -- if you can handle the spine-jarring expense
What you need to know
Reviewed on: 19 August 2005
Tags: rockdirect, rockdirect Xtreme Ti, entertainment, pixels, performance
We like:
Giant screen; blistering performance; built in weight-training features (it's as heavy as a dumbbell)
We don't like:
Screen reflectivity -- but then who needs daylight, or even remembers what it is?
You might also need:
Plugging in a mouse will be the first manoeuvre made by any gamer worth his or her Thrustmaster
CNET UK judgement:
Gamers with an addiction that's run completely out of control will love this heavyweight laptop. It's beefy and bold, ramped up to the danger zone and fierce enough to give a game of Battlefield 2 the brutal graphics clarity that high-resolution killing deserves. You'll need pockets as deep as the Mariana Trench, though
Full review:
There's something eerily familiar about this rockdirect laptop. The Xtreme Ti resembles the Alienware Area 51m 7700 in a number of ways: there's the similar chassis, the identical screen and the more or less identical components. Continue Reading...
rockdirect Xtreme Ti History
17 Jun 2005 in Crave
Ti fighter: rockdirect Xtreme laptop
It looks like an Alienware laptop, but it's not made by Alienware. What the ecky peck's going on?
Latest user reviews
March 19, 2006
Posted by: the man
"Killer performance, it now comes with 2GB RAM as standard"
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