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Notebook with Huge 20 Inch Screen Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the desktop-replacement-not-laptop dept.

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!"

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  1. lb? by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 4, Informative

    And at over 17lb you can even use it for weight training

    Thats 7.7kgs for those of us not still using British imperial measurements ;-)

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    1. Re:lb? by BrianTung · · Score: 2, Informative

      I think the units used in the U.S. are actually an amalgam of various pre-Imperial systems. The U.S. gallon, for instance, is not equal to the Imperial gallon; it's a pre-Imperial gallon (back before the Sith took over).

    2. Re:lb? by nizo · · Score: 5, Informative
      I just wondered, why are pounds written as "lbs"? I found the answer here



      [Q] From Andrea: "Why are pounds, when used as a weight, abbreviated lbs?"

      [A] The origin is in the Latin word libra, which could mean both balance scales (hence the symbol for the astrological sign Libra, which was named after a constellation that was thought to resemble scales) and also a pound weight, for which the full expression was libra pondo, the second word being the origin of our pound.


      Who says Slashdot isn't educational???

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    3. Re:lb? by zenhkim · · Score: 3, Informative

      True -- unless you're measuring weight for certain kinds of materials. This can be illustrated by a riddle that sounds an awful lot like a trick question:

      "Which weighs more -- a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?"

      The obvious answer would be "Neither!" since logically a pound of x should be exactly as heavy as a pound of y. Unfortunately, there are two different (and maddeningly incompatible) standards for measuring a pound: troy and avoirdupois.

      A troy pound is defined as weighing twelve ounces and (historically) is used almost exclusively for precious metals, whereas an avoirdupois pound has sixteen ounces and is used for nearly everything else. Based on this, the pound of feathers weighs *more* than the pound of gold!

      As if that weren't bad enough, the troy ounce is *slightly heavier* than the avoirdupois ounce -- therefore an ounce of feathers weighs less than an ounce of gold! Are we sufficiently confused yet??

      http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/custom.html

      No wonder people dumped that Old English system for metric....

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  2. Re:Half-assed effort by el_gordo101 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think you want something like this monster...

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  3. Re:Only 1680 x 1050 resolution by mlinksva · · Score: 2, Informative

    15.4" laptop screens that support 1920x1200 have been around for awhile too. I'm satisfied with mine.

  4. Re:slugs by tehshen · · Score: 4, Informative

    4.64371564×10^27 atomic mass units, for the physicists

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  5. Re:Quality by John+Harrison · · Score: 1, Informative

    Yet it seems that you buy Acers over and over again. Might I suggest a quality laptop such as an Apple or a Lenovo?

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  6. Re:Digital Tuner... by pe1chl · · Score: 2, Informative

    By clicking on the link in the summary and seeing the "UK", "Ltd." and UK Pound signs all over the place.