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Enderle's Ferrari Laptop
deminisma writes "Hilarity abounds as 'analyst' Rob Enderle gushes over his new Ferrari/Acer laptop. The laptop apparently even plays the sound of a car revving up while booting, which Enderle seems to think is all the rage at meetings."
Look who wrote the article. The guy works for a company who sells as its major product: " Provides consulting services during the review process of a poorly founded negative piece on a vendor or its products and, should it be needed, showcases the research errors, statistical mistakes, and unfounded conclusions that often define such a piece.". May be Acer got some bad press recently and this is how this guy is spinning it? I smell a rat
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"custom AMD processor"
.... the same one you can get in a HP ze4000 laptop?
The Athlon(TM) XP-M 2500+
I've played with one in the stores, it's kind of cheesy, the Lacie drive, they didn't do a good job with the molding
Recall that Rob Enderle=Microsoft Apologist /. a couple months back. It surprises me that he should point out the consistency and flexibility of Linux, since his earlier writeup made him look as if he was paid my M$ to mouth major anti-Linux FUD.
by GillBates0 (664202) on Wednesday December 17, @01:30PM (#7746866)
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Note that Rob Enderle is the author of In Defense Of the Microsoft Monoculture [internetwk.com], which was highly debated [slashdot.org] on
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Rob Enderle is the founder--and as best I can tell, sole employee--of "The Enderle Group." Basically, he started calling himself an expert on stuff, a few online 'zines believed him, and he got famous on Slashdot for badmouthing Linux.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
That guy was/is not a cybersquatter. His last name happens to be Nissan and he was operating in the US using his name as the name of his company before Nissan changed their US monkier from Datsun.
From the current list of comments, every one here is, umm, bench racing. No one seems to have actually seen one, much less spent any quality time with one of these things. That said, most of your comments are way off.
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I have seen and played with them on 2 occasions, and they are rather nice. I was skeptical when I first heard about them, then I saw one at Comdex:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=1278
I saw one again at CES, and talked to the Acer guys. They take this very seriously as do the Ferarri people.
There is a lof of thought that went into this box, and it shows. It really has to be seen to be understood. The paint looks insanely good, I have never seen a laptop that looks this nice.
The laptop itself is pretty nondescript, I think Enderle must be on crack to give up his T40, the nicest laptop I have ever reviewed for it.
Overall, give this thing a chance, it is a really unique laptop that looks damn good. Hunt one down in a store, you will be impressed.
-Charlie
I'd prefer the Porsche laptop.
I do remember when this came out, though. It was a flop. It was overpriced (more than the TiBook at the time), and fragile.
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
That is only part of the joke. It's an old European joke. Never heard Carlin tell it, but it wouldn't surprise me. As I heard it, it goes like this:
In Heaven: the chefs are French, the lovers are Italian, the police are English, the mechanics are German, and the managers are Swiss.
In Hell: the chefs are English, the lovers are Swiss, the police are German, the mechanics are French, and the managers are Italian.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
From my experience, no. I have no idea why he is quoted so often when he (quite obviously in many cases) has doen not offer many quotes of value - it must be that he's seen to it that more journalists get his business card that most other "analysts". Since you mentioned Apple, just months ago he predicted Apple would ditch their own hardware development roadmap and migrate to x86 by the end of 2003, adding "When you are down to 2 percent share and the trend is still in the wrong direction you need to do something before someone asks you to turn out the lights," OK Rob, Apple will get right on that. Even people who work for Microsoft know he's full of it. Seeing a quote from him in an article just warns the reader of lazy journalism.
The lid, bottom panel and top area around the keyboard and palmrests are all pure titanium. The frame is carbon fiber. The TiBook has poor wireless range because the signal is shielded by the titanium. The antenna is not "next to the airport card," it runs all the way through the case to the two windows on opposite sides of the machine. Thank you for making a series of blind guesses and passing them off as fact though.
Look closely at the corners and edges of the aluminum shells of the current PowerBooks. A lot of their stiffness come from the large radii used.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."