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Porsche Designs a Laptop
An anonymous reader writes "Cnet is reporting that BestBuy is selling a porsche designed widescreen ultra thin laptop the looks almost exactly like a Tibook. Sadly, it runs windows so no one will actually want to use one for real work, but it looks pretty cool for minesweeper. Ah, I guess that the TiBook is no longer a status symbol if you can run Windows on it. It has all the trimmings, like those "made for windows 2k stickers" that get the screen all nasty when you close it."
Thats what I want to know before I switch.
Ursula Andress, Catherine Deneuve, and Charo, twice...
Then you could run OSX on top of you w2k porsche book while the guy next to you runs 2k to manage a server by using Virtual PC on his Ti book.... I'm not touching the recursive possibilities
Everyone knows Porcshes are shiny and red, not a screen of blue.
I think it's been determined in court that selling Windows was the crime of the century.
It is fine not to like you Windows, but you don't have to make it that using Windows is the crime of the century.
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BestBuy is selling a Porsche designed widescreen ultra thin laptop the looks almost exactly like a Tibook. Sadly, it runs Windows
Finally, I'll be able to crash a Porsche and be able to walk away.
Any hope of getting an OS free version?
Work for Change & GET PAID!
I disagree. CmdrTaco's story selection is completely objective, and the anonymous reader's story submission is very well balanced. Now where did I put the rest of that acid.
Welcome to Slashdot.
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Operator, give me the number for 911!
That's like saying Moe was the smartest stooge...
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Of course they have more time on their hands. They're sitting around waiting for the next nightly build of Mozilla they can download and compile.
Uh, doesn't Windows 2k get your screen all nasty when you open it? :-)
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com."
The purpose of that site was not known.
I'm not an audiophile, but I know high-quality sound when I hear it. That's definitely the case with the VPR Matrix 200A5, thanks to the Sonopür Digital Audio system, with its patent-pending 24/192 upsampling technology. This system dramatically enhances digital music and offers very rich sound.
I'm not a stable hand, but I know horse shit when I smell it.
I mean, I know I'm supposed to either be 'ooh'-ing or 'aah'-ing, but the best I can manage is a 'hwah?' Sonopür? What, does the umlaut act as a built-in sounding board for the thumping, thumping base this ultraslim laptop undoubtedly cranks out? Upsampling and high fidelity used in the same sentence? Right.
Hey, cnet! I've got this little Gaussian blur filt--uh, I mean, JPEG Edge Enhancement System, with patent-pending Blürfexxion(tm) technology! Care to give me a writeup?
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
Boy, a lot of people have been jumping all over the following quote from the original post ...
;-)
Sadly, it runs windows so no one will actually want to use one for real work
As many have pointed out, the majority of the world (to their eternal shame) actually does use Windows to do their work.
However, I will stand by the original poster and observe that precious few of them wanted to use Windows.
Heck, pretty few of them even wanted to do their work in the first place and using Windows is rarely a satisfying experience in and of itself.
Just because they did it, didn't mean that they wanted to
Rather, boxy things. Every porchse car is curvy, arguably even too curvy. This laptop is all sharp angles. It's a pizza box. I don't see "Porsche" in it at all, except perhaps in frequency of crashes.....
--- What?
Bash, Bash, Bash? Don't you mean cmd.exe, cmd.exe, cmd.exe?
I can't tell you how many times I've picked up a date in my porche to have them run out of the car screaming when the onboard computer boots up windows.
Kinda makes we wanna go out and get one now... Naw, still drooling over Apple's TiBook.
I don't read ACs: If a post isn't worth so much as a nom de plume to its author then I wont bother either.
Yeah.
When your Mac locks up, you can rest secure in the knowledge that it's got the best form, fit, and finish of any locked-up Mac in the cubicle.
--Blair
It is hard to take this post seriously when all it does is bash Windows.
The article doesn't bash Windows the way Cygwin bashes Windows. Cygwin bash is better than the alternative.
you don't have to make it that using Windows is the crime of the century
For the poor, it is. A one-seat Windows XP license costs $300. If you use Windows without paying for it, you have committed either theft or copyright infringement.
Plus, you're not timothy.
Will I retire or break 10K?
It's ugly as all Hell.
It's too damn expensive.
I betchya it's lots of fun to play with.
And when I turn it on, I'll have lots of SEX
Probably with myself most of the time...
Thats even a more retarded statement! Man, you guys are in the running for the most ignorand and uneducated pro linux argument ever!
There are some times when you really don't want to make a typo.
My car isn't a Porsche, but my computer is. Does this mean I will have hot chicks now?
Wow, you're right, an overpriced laptop from a famous Porsche design company costs about the same as a TiBook. Wait...your point was...?
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Just wait until you see the Packard-Bell 911 turbo.
...VW will now design a knock-off of the iMac.
This is my post. There are many others like it. If you don't like what you read here, go try one of the others.
Reading through the posts, I just want to say one thing:
It's Porsche!!! There's an S in there!
It's not Porche! Maybe a lot of people associate Porsche with a nice patio on the front of their house. I don't.
PORSCHE!
The value of the laptop goes down by 20% the second you drive it off the Best Buy lot.
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
Well when you can script and automate everything, instead of pointing and clicking your way to RSI...
OF COURSE YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE MORE FREE TIME.
Top speed of a 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo is listed as 190mph (manual trans), with a 0-62mph time of 4.2sec. D'ya think this thing can match that?