Rock’s Xtreme XL8 promises twin GeForce 8800M GTXs

-from engadget

Merely two days after Dell added NVIDIA’s GeForce 8800M GTX to its beastly M1730, it seems that Rock is looking to up the graphical ante as well. Reportedly, the firm is gearing up to unleash the (likely rebadged) Xtreme XL8, which will house an Intel X6800 quad-core processor, a delightful pair of NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTXs, up to 1TB of storage space and a 17-inch 1,920 x 1,200 resolution panel to boot. Furthermore, you’ll find an Ethernet jack, Draft-N wireless card, an obligatory (no, really) HD DVD drive and a presumably laughable battery life. Waiting for the sting? Try £2,500 ($4,976) to £3,000 ($5,971), with pre-orders going live later this month.
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Zeus Shows Off $750,000 PC

-from techPowerup

This could well be the most overpriced expensive commercial computer ever to be launched: the Zeus Jupiter. The computer’s case is made of solid platinum embedded with diamonds which have been arranged to mimic astrological constellations. However, given that the PC has a price tag of ¥80,000,000 (just over $750,000) you’ll be disappointed to hear that it’s powered by a 3GHz Intel E6850 CPU, 2GB 667MHz DDR2 RAM, a 1TB hard drive, a dual Blu-ray/HD DVD drive and a 256MB GeForce 8400GS. Yes, that’s one of NVIDIA’s entry level graphics cards. Of course, if that’s just out of your price range you could always go for Jupiter’s little brother Mars, which has the same specs but with gold instead of platinum. That sells for a mere ¥60,000,000, which is just under $565,000.