Hypersonic Sonic Aviator: 3.06Ghz Notebook

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Anandtech has scored another top-notch product review. It's the latest Hypersonic PC notebook with enough horsepower to make your desktop cripple. However this comes at a price: 60°C plus warm air is coming out of the vents. This system is another indication that towersized desktop systems will vanish in the not too far away future. For the time being I wouldn't mind to have that one as a mobile computing alternative though. The Hypersonic Sonic Aviator is designed to be loaded with powerful components and that is exactly how our sample Sonic Aviator arrived in the lab. The test system came configured with a desktop Pentium 4 Processor running at 3.06GHz (on a 533FSB we might add), 1.0GB of PC2100 DDR RAM, a 40GB 5400RPM hard drive, an 8X DVD / 16X-10X-24X CD-R/W combo drive, and an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 with 64MB DDR memory. With these components in the Sonic Aviator, the notebook was set to go faster than all but a few desktop systems out there. The Test