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Notebook with Huge 20 Inch Screen Reviewed
An anonymous reader writes "Trusted reviews has a look at the Acer Aspire 9800. This massive machine has a 20.1" screen, two 120GB hard drives in a RAID 0 array, super-multi DVD burner, analogue and digital TV tuners and an Intel Core Duo dual core CPU. And at over 17lb you can even use it for weight training!"
It almost gets to the windows loading screen before the battery dies.
Included with the purchase of a new unit: one year of free adustments by the chiropractor of your choice.
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...but can I use it as cell phone?
And a battery capacity to power the unit for 4.5 seco...
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Color MacBook?
"but still has enough battery life to give you a full days work on the move."
What does it come with? a power plant attached?
I got a beautiful x286 laptop with a couple megs ram and a 10MB drive that weighs that much :) Anyone interested?
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In europe this will be marketed as a workstation replacement and in USA it'll be marketed as compact PDA (just the size of your back pocket).
Nah, it's pretty light in britian. Only 1.1 stone....
I'd at the very least expect some recesses on the top of the lid for a plate, cup and come cutlery. Disconnect the fans, it could even keep my dinner warm!
> Anyway, if I had the cash burning a hole in my pocket, I'd pass this one by.
And soon after the cash did, the laptop would as well.
Acer Canyonero!
The average American lap is increasing is no reason for laptops to follow suit.
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... can it run windows vista?
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I did that long ago. The problem was that the CRT made the laptop a bit top heavy.
Take it to the limit, everybody to the limit, come on, everybody fhqwhgads.
And at over 17lb you can even use it for weight training!**
** Applies only to those reading this Slashdot article
Given that, as pointed out, the units used in the US are not actually Imperial units, the question must be asked as to what exactly to call that particular unit system. Some suggestions: "Archaic", "Irregular" "Primitive", "Obsolete", or "Wrong".
Jedidiah.
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1680x1050 is horrible resolution for 20" of screen space, but I guess if you value size more than pixels, then this is the laptop for you. I would guess that for some users, particularly gamers, raw pixel resolution may not be your highest priority.
Indeed. It isn't size that matters - its what you do with it that counts.
My first computer was one of the original Compaq "portable computers". If I remember correctly, it weighed about 34 lbs. That was before the day of laptops. I probably moved it more than my current laptops. I lugged it between college and home - a trip that included commuter rail, subway, shuttle bus, airplane, express bus, another commuter train, and several long walks -- along with a clothing bag and numerous books.
Hmm.... Maybe I was nuts.
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Is that like better than the uber-max DVD burner? Now I know why the post was anonymous.
ALso, what is it with R&D these days? It's like they make em work straight for a month or so, then they have an office party where they get the managers drunk:
Employee A: Lets make a 20 inch Laptop with RAID 0. And lasers.
Manager: Yeah dude that would be amaaaazing. Can I lick your balls?
Can you name the 'top with two hard-drives
A built in webcam and a screen that's wide?
Ninety-eight double-zero-oooooh,
9800.
Well it goes real fast with dual-core brain,
It's the super-size 'book too big for a plane,
Ninety-eight double-zero-oooooh,
9800.
380 mills deep, 490 mills wide,
7.8 kilos of Taiwanese pride,
Ninety-eight double-zero-oooooh,
9800.
Top of the line in weightlifting sports,
Knackered elbows are a matter for the courts,
Ninety-eight double-zero-oooooh,
9800.
She stuns everybody with a CrystalBrite screen,
She's a 20-inch dual-core computing machine,
Ninety-eight double-zero-oooooh,
9800.
Aren't you assuming a 1 g gravitaitonal field? How very Sol III centric of you.
It's not the size that matters! It's the battery life..
With something that big, you'd think it would come with a handle, and maybe some headlights and deer whistles. The sidewalks and campuses of the world are no longer safe.
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... with the hard drive empty. Fill all of those 120 gigabytes and it weighs a full 20 lbs.
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That's right, ten inches in a foot. 100 inches in a yard and 1000 yards in a mile. What could possibly go wrong?
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Thats 7.7kgs for those of us not still using British imperial measurements ;-)
Or approx. $23,000,000 worth of pure Columbian cocaine.
What could possibly go wrong?
The next Mars Rover exploring your backyard?
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
I was, of course, not being serious. However, it's worth noting that several of those descriptors are in fact applicable given the right definition:
obsolete: 2. Outmoded in design, style, or construction;
primitive: 2b. Being little evolved from an early ancestral type.
Oddly the US is, technically, a metric country. Some selected quotes from this page on the history of metric measurements in the US:
"As a result, the U. S. has been "metric" since 1866, but only in the sense that Americans have been free since that time to use the metric system as much as they like."
"In 1875, the U.S. was one of the original signers of the Treaty of the Meter, which established the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM)."
"In 1893, Congress adopted the metric standards, the official meter and kilogram bars supplied by BIPM, as the standards for all measurement in the U.S. This didn't mean that metric units had to be used, but since that time the customary units have been defined officially in terms of metric standards."
"In the 1970's there was a major effort to increase the use of the metric system, and Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 to speed this process along."
"In 1988, Congress passed the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act, which designates "the metric system of measurement as the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce." Among many other things, the act requires federal agencies to use metric measurements in nearly all of their activities, although there are still exceptions allowing traditional units to be used in documents intended for consumers."
So it seems the US has a long history on slowly plodding toward metric - indeed, it is defined as the standard system for the US. You just seem to have done an appallingly bad job of it.
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Not anymore.
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