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Review: rock Pegasus 650 Dungeons And Dragons Online Laptop

by Tarinder Sandhu on 30 June 2006, 13:17

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rockdirect has differentiated this particular Pegasus 650 laptop by teaming up with Atari and offering a limited-edition Dungeons And Dragons: Online version that packs in a wonderful-looking exterior and a copy of the game itself.

We like the fact that rockdirect overclocks the CPU, when powered off the mains, by 5%, offering performance for free. We're also fans of the dual VGA options present, with the user able to toggle between onboard and discrete graphics via a simple switch. The screen is good and the recovery partition, making it ever-so simple to restore the laptop to factory specification, is a handy feature that all other companies should make a note of.

So, as much as we've like the Pegasus 650 SKU itself, and we praised it in our initial review last year, times have moved on enough for the base specification not to offer reasonable value for money at the near-£1000 pricepoint. We'd like to see it equipped with a dual-core Yonah CPU and, taking into account the screen's 1680x1050 native resolution, a Radeon X1000-series graphics card, preferably the Mobility Radeon X1600.

The rockdirect Pegasus 650 Dungeons and Dragons: Online model, then, is a distinctive model that's compromised by componentry that doesn't make the grade in mid-2006. Good but not great.



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rockdirect has a comprehensive page devoted to this model. You can find it by clicking here. Further, you can customise the build by clicking here for more options.

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Posted by kalniel - Fri 30 Jun 2006 14:20
Nice review, but I thought this laptop had been around a while, hence why the specs might seem a little out of date?
Posted by chrestomanci - Sun 02 Jul 2006 21:00
kalniel
Nice review, but I thought this laptop had been around a while, hence why the specs might seem a little out of date?
Looks that way. One of the laptops they compared it with is the ASUS A6JA, at £1400. I have just brought one from scan for about a thousand (typing on it now in my garden). Comparing the specs, and for the same money I would say the Asus is better in every way other than the screen resolution.

Also, on the Battery benchmark is nearly a good benchmark, but it falls down by relying on the systems percent remaing score, instead of just playing the DVD untill the battery dies. All hexus would need to do would be to get an insanley long move (LOTR director's cut should do it), and just play the thing untill the battery gives out. For peple who watch moves on planes it is a realistic benchmark, and very easy to do.