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13:52 - Bigger is Better
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Wheee! Via AtAT-- now this is how to make a big laptop! Stupid Apple.
4:3 17-inch screen at 1280x1024 resolution. Teeny low price ($1599). 3E gigahertz CPU. (That means "3 sort of." It's a branding. Y'know, like "486".) What's not to like?
But wait-- there's more!
120GB hard drive-- at 7200 rpm. Meaning it's not a laptop drive, it's a full-size desktop drive. Which is fine, because the laptop is 2.2 inches thick! Hell, we could fit a free-range Tom turkey in this thing if we wanted to.
It'd hardly raise the weight class, too. This thing weighs 15.7 pounds. Hah! Beat that, Apple! Is how we make laptop in Old Country! Framework made from cast iron in Magnitogorsk. Many peasants die to make laptop, but all is for greater good of State.
(Hell, if you wanted to find a heavier "laptop", you'd have to go back to the old Mac Portable-- the lovable Luggable. 15.8 pounds if it was an ounce. But hey, those were the days of lead-acid batteries. They don't make 'em like they used to! Ah, my stars.)
Oh, and in case this isn't enough weight for you, we at Acer have got'cha covered! There's a power supply to carry around too. Wanna guess how much it weighs? Two pounds. There. No reason to feel cheated-- the bragging rights are all yours!
And it's a good thing, too, because without that power supply, this baby will eat through a battery in "up to 1.0 hour". So don't worry about discomfiting the guys in the window and aisle seats on the plane-- you'll have put the laptop away in its included Samsonite wheeled trolley before the plane has even left Bravo airspace and stowed it safely in the overhead compartment, at least unless it causes the plane to tip a little too far to the side-- in which case the flight attendants will be happy to check it for you.
So, yeah, it's not a "laptop" per se-- it's a portable, really, designed to be a full-featured desktop computer that just happens to be foldable so you can stuff it into your trunk if you have to take it somewhere. There's something to be said for a portable that doesn't bother compromising any desktop features for the sake of, oh, portability. But damn, it's easy to point and laugh at.
And I like easy targets!
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Brian Tiemann
