Hypersonic-PC powers down for the last time

In 1997, Hypersonic joined the likes of Voodoo, AlienWare and Falcon Northwest in the gamble that gamers would buy what were then gut-wrenchingly expensive (think $10,000) custom PCs. Ten years later, it was gobbled up by memory manufacturer OCZ, and soon came to our attention for selling a chic, tiny, but somehow nicely specced 12.1-inch laptop. Today, the company is no more. The Hypersonic website reads that the firm is no longer accepting orders, and Techgage -- speaking to OCZ's chief marketing office Alex Mei -- reports that while OCZ will honor all warranties, the company is ceasing marketing and sales support for the Hypersonic brand. Sad, yes, but at least it's one fewer temptation to lure us extreme gamers into bankruptcy.

[HowardtheDuck Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:14PM]

Bummer.

[grub Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:17PM]

Awaiting confirmation from Netcraft...

[Luxury Guy Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:18PM]

Well considering the first time ou guys comment on it, its already dead, can't say I'm surprised...

[ppsaoda Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:21PM]

RIP

[grub Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:23PM]

Awaiting confirmation from Netcraft...

[unknownsolo Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:28PM]

Never heard of them!!

Now you can down rank me a-holes

[JackBauer Posted Mar 23rd 2010 1:03AM]

up-ranked

[EasterBunny Posted Mar 23rd 2010 1:14AM]

@unknownsolo

upranked because i had never heard of them either

[think before you react Posted Mar 23rd 2010 5:14AM]

@unknownsolo
+1 for using the term a-holes.

Even better would have been using butt holes. lol. Funny.

[vVv Posted Mar 23rd 2010 7:11PM]

reminds me of a recent Onion article

http://www.theonion.com/articles/computer-company-started-in-garage-30-years-ago-no,17124/

[bohoy2k Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:52PM]

I prefer Rock computers anyway...

:cue Queen:

[Massive Poop Posted Mar 23rd 2010 12:22AM]

I've personnally never heard of them

but that is a sexy yellow

[Prince David Posted Mar 23rd 2010 1:09AM]

My father was a loyal customer of theirs for a while, and I had a hand-me-down Hypersonic myself. They made some great machines in their day, I am sad to see them go.

[phjoshi Posted Mar 23rd 2010 1:38AM]

very nice looking laptop

[Atkins Posted Mar 23rd 2010 2:37AM]

Discontinued because of the color.

[Ducman69 Posted Mar 23rd 2010 4:03AM]

@Atkins Everyone knows that yellow is the fastest color. Adds up to 20% more megahertz.

[Atkins Posted Mar 23rd 2010 4:11AM]

@Ducman69 What about red then? :)

[Tito Posted Mar 23rd 2010 6:46AM]

@Atkins TSA sees it as a terrorist threat and shots it a few clips from an M16.

[Menekis Posted Mar 23rd 2010 7:09AM]

@Tito I remember a story with a white colored macbook that have been shot in the airport by afghan. Are they scared by a white sign of peace? :P