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Porsche Designs a Laptop

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-just-silly dept.

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."

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  1. And the business plan was... by dpbsmith · · Score: 1, Redundant

    1) Take ho-hum commodity Wintel laptop
    2) Add knockoff of Apple's industrial design
    ?
    3) Profit!

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  2. Sheesh. by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Redundant

    > "Sadly, it runs windows so no one will actually want to use one for real work, but it looks pretty cool for minesweeper"

    What a moronic, uninformed, asshatted, mac-fanboy troll of a post. Way to go Taco.

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  3. What are you saying? by /dev/trash · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Sadly, it runs windows so no one will actually want to use one for real work, but it looks pretty cool for minesweeper.

    Are you saying that the 1000's of businesses taht use Windows aren't really doing anything 'real?' I know Windows can be virus prone and things but to just dismiss it with what you said is just plain silly.

  4. I know this may come as a shock..... by devilbat · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But there are quite a few of us that choose to develop and work with Windows XP and deploy on less friendly environments like Unix. Why? Because from a purely ease of use, great GUI, available software perspective Windows works better than all flavors of Unix. I would rather eat broken glass than use Unix for day to day use. (That includes the Linux flavors too)