The Iridium Starbook 625 Featuring SmartPower® Technology

2nd June'03

HIGH PERFORMANCE MOBILE COMPUTING WITH EXTENDED SYSTEM BATTERY LIFE

- THE IRIDIUM STARBOOK 625 FEATURING SMARTPOWER® TECHNOLOGY -

Iridium has announced its new thin and light, high performance portable notebook to the mobile market, the Starbook 625. This model is the first to feature Iridium’s revolutionary SmartPower® Technology, which provides mobile users with full desktop PC performance whilst extending system battery life.

Users looking to take advantage of the high performance, low cost benefits that come from using desktop CPU notebook solutions have up until now been forced to put up with larger machines due to thermal tolerances and battery size.

Introduction to SmartPower®

SmartPower® is a technology that empowers the desktop CPU with enhanced power-management features. Programmed into the systems Bios, SmartPower® accesses the computer hardware directly, regardless of the operating system and automatically adjusts the CPU performance to varying gradients of throttle according to utilisation of CPU.

SmartPower® brings the following benefits:

Introducing the Iridium Starbook 625

Equipped with an Intel® Pentium® 4 processor (up to 2.4Ghz and 2.6Ghz), the Starbook 625 weighs in at 2.8Kg’s with a thin form factor of only 25mm. Together with this powerful CPU, the 625 supports up to 1Gb Double Data Rate (DDR) Synchronous DRAM and features a crisp 14-inch XGA TFT display and a CD-RW/DVD combo drive for optimum multimedia functionality.

The Starbook 625 will be supplied as standard with Microsoft XP Home Operating System, Ability Office 2002 Software and Panda Anti Virus Software.

Editors note: Iridium is a division of Rock Group Plc, a notebook specialist now in its 11th year of trading. For further information or a picture of the new Starbook 625, please contact Sarah Chard (Marketing & PR Manager) at Iridium 08702 203 608, fax 08709 90 90 91 or email sarah.chard@Iridium-uk.com