SANDY, Utah --(Business Wire)-- April 28, 2004 Total desktop replacement notebook computer is "the one laptop to rule them all"

PC Laptops today introduced the Annihilator 897 high-end portable computer, an industry-leading laptop computer featuring a 3.2 Gigahertz (GHz) Pentium 4 processor, a 17-inch WXGA active matrix display and the popular ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 Pro graphics card.

Other standard features of the Annihilator 897 include a 60 Gigabyte (GB) 7200 RPM hard drive, 1GB of 400MHz (Megahertz) RAM, a built-in 2X DVD+/-R/RW dual mode detachable optical drive, an internal 802.11b/g WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) module, three USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports, one 1394 FireWire port and one Type II PCMCIA slot. Every Annihilator 897 also comes standard with a built-in digital video camera perfect for videoconferencing among other uses, as well as a TV tuner with remote control that effectively turns the laptop into a portable television set.

The Annihilator 897 is designed to occupy the high end of PC Laptops' product line as a top-level desktop replacement. Like all PC Laptops models, it is fully customizable beyond the standard configuration to fit a customer's exact needs, including the ability to add a second hard drive in a RAID configuration. All told, the Annihilator 897 is available in more than 150 different configurations.

"The Annihilator 897 is without a doubt the one laptop to rule them all," said Dan (The Laptop Man) Young, president of PC Laptops. "It's a monster machine that will rock your world if you're a hard-core gamer, and it will blow your mind if you're looking for a top-of-the-line desktop replacement. And what's even more amazing is that when you buy it, you pick up not only the coolest and best laptop on the planet, but also PC Laptops' absolutely amazing lifetime service guarantee."

Included with all PC Laptops systems, the lifetime service guarantee includes quarterly tune-ups complete with vital software updates to the computer, a physical cleaning, removal of spyware and so on. Also, PC Laptops performs an overall evaluation to identify ways to enhance and improve performance when the computer is brought in to a retail location, such as defragmenting the hard drive, dumping cache and checking for and installing additional updates. Additional information regarding the service guarantee, including "oops protection," trade-in options and data recovery services can also be found by contacting PC Laptops directly.

Standard configuration for the Annihilator 897 portable computer includes the following:

-- 3.2GHz Pentium 4 microprocessor with 800MHz front-side bus,

-- 17-inch WXGA active matrix display (1440 x 900),

-- 60GB 7200RPM Ultra DMA hard drive,

-- 1,024MB (1GB+) of 400MHz PC2 100 DDR (Dual Data Rate) RAM,

-- ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 Pro 256MB DDR (M11),

-- 2x DVD+/-R/RW dual-mode combo detachable CD-ROM drive,

-- 512 Kilobytes (KB) on-die cache,

-- An internal Intel 802.11b/g Wi-Fi module,

-- Three USB 2.0 ports,

-- One four-pin FireWire (IEEE-1394) port,

-- One Type II PCMCIA slot,

-- An integrated 10/100/1000 Megabits per second (Mbps) local area network and V.90 56K fax/modem,

-- Infrared wireless interface,

-- TV-tuner with remote and an integrated CMOS video camera,

-- Hardware RAID 0 or 1 function,

-- Smart Lithium ion battery with average life of 1.5 hours,

-- Seven-in-one card reader,

-- Six channel analog audio output,

-- Touchpad with scrolling keys,

-- Standard carrying bag,

-- User manual, connecting cords, AC adapter, etc.,

-- Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition and

-- Additional ports including one each of the following: S/PDIF out, microphone in, center and subwoofer speakers out, front left and right speakers out and in, rear left and right speakers out, headphone, infrared, DVI out, parallel, serial, PS/2, S-Video out and in, RJ-11 and RJ 45.

The dimensions of the Annihilator 897 are 1.7- x 15.4- x 11-inches (HxWxD). With the battery, the 897 weighs 10.5 pounds. PC Laptops' Annihilator 897 model laptop computer is available immediately for $3,499 in its standard configuration.