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Acer Plans A 16 lb. Notebook
jagger writes "Well not exactly gigantic but at 16 pounds and sporting a 17-inch screen this thing is stretching the term portable. It also features a 3EGHz Pentium 4, 1GB of RAM, a 7200rpm 160gb hard disk, DVD-burner and the kitchen sink. ZDNet has a rundown of all of this beast's features." This sounds like a joke (or a typo), but the story says otherwise.
The company is marketing the Aspire 1710 as a replacement for desktops or PC workstations primarily in the workplace.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
A laptop with docking station does the same thing with far less luggable weight, albeit at a higher price.
3 GHz P4. OK, that's pretty nice.
1 GB RAM. Nothing special about that.
160 GB disk. So what? How many offices don't have a server to store everything on?
DVD burner. Optional on some laptops and you can always use an external to a docking station.
Kitchen Sink. So what? Carry a small bottle of Purell in your pocket.
This has got to be a "Hail Mary" to keep brand recognition in the portable market or one of the worst marketting decisions this year.
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It's like the laptop version of my sister!
"Come on, let's go drink till we can't feel feelings anymore."
It's also powered by it's own sun in a jar!
Does this come with a few vouchers for chiropractor appointments?
Acer is bound to succeed! Historical precedent shows us the Osborne-1 was.... ah...
never mind.
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat? -C. Palahniuk
I cough in Acer's general direction. 16 pounds, that's nothing! Apple already has a 40lb notebook for sale. That's a full 24 pounds heavier than Acer's, and it has a 20" LCD to boot! Yupm you guessed it, it's called an iMac.
Really now, the article says this brick actually uses a 120GB desktop IDE drive, just cause you throw a hinge on a desktop with integrated LCD doesn't make it a notebook. If this is how Acer plans to recapture the North American market I wish them luck.
So will they co-brand this with Hummer?
And will Rob Enderle be infatuated with it?
Considering the hygene standards of the average geek, adding a kitchen sink to a laptop is a bit pointless.
3 exa-giga Hertz? Let's see, that's 3 * 10^18 * 10^9 = 3 * 10^27 Hertz. Maybe Intel will always be faster than Apple.
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
Its like stating "64k cable broadband" or a "a fast tortoise"..
16lbs and notebook used in the same sentence. Hah
The term "outside the box" is squarely within the box at this point.
Sorry, the specs aren't that outstanding.
And at 16 pounds, and with that 3Ghz processor in there, it will burn your legs AND cut off circulation to them at the same time!
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Ford has announced plans for a new steam-powered roadster. "We believe this new vehicle will set a new standard for vehicle perfomance and efficiency, easily surpassing both oxen AND mules for both speed and maneuverability", a spokesman said.
Roving Web-Teleoperated Robot
It's the spirit of Adam Osborne, pioneer of the luggable computer!
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Yeah but will it play race car sounds when I start it up?
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16pounds, desktop processor. Sounds like an Alienware Laptop. Those puppies have 3 fans (!!!) to cool it down. In fact, I don't think it can technically be a laptop. If you put it in your lap, the high temps would boil your sperm...
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
Hey!, by the time you add the extra battery, external HDs, keychain USB drives, digital camera, iPod, bose headphones, bag, DC/AC power supplies, voltage converters. I've got mine to 23.4lbs in the bag! Beat That!
-CowboyNick
. . . the notebrick???
you call that an advantage? I've never owned an Apple product since the AppleII, and even I think this is ludicrous.
the Netork card is set to Promiscuous Mode
Heer Heer! :-)
I've only got a 9", but it's the best laptop.....
Oh nevermind....
Since the Ferrari laptop has a logo and red paint job, does this one have an ugly Hummer-style case? Does it make machine gun sounds when you fire it up?
Will Rob Enderle buy one?
Reading Slashdot is ruining my spelling and grammar.
Forget teaming with Ferrari to build notebooks, they should co-brand this one with Hummer.
I must say that 0x3E = 62 Gigahertz laptop
is well worth the 16 pounds it weights. Yet again acer has shown itself to be well ahead of
the curve. May the innovation continue.
...he wanted his laptop back.
So basically its more of a UPS than a battery.
My son is 30 pounds, but we don't leave him at home because he's too heavy to lift into the car seat.
Then why do you leave him at home?
To make room for the new Acer laptop.
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This product fills the gap for those who don't really want the portability of a laptop or the low price and ergonomics of a desktop.
Apple laptops are:
1.) extremely high quality
2.) aesthetically pleasing
3.) lightweight
4.) really really expensive
you forgot this: 5.) as comfortable as a beesting in the eyeball.
i don't care how great ibooks are or aren't i won't EVER buy one until they offer a mouse BUTTON instead of that all-too-annoying touchPAD.
Touchpads are the most asinine pointing devices ever devised by mankind and I'll never own one.
I don't care if the iBook prints $100 bills legally every minute for the rest of my life, I will NEVER own a laptop that has only a touchpad.
I will throw myself between a mother bear and her cubs before I'll own a touchpad pointing device.
no ibooks for me i guess. no big loss from what i can see anyway.