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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. Excellent Large-Screen Portable Television by reporter · · Score: 0, Redundant
    peterdaly (123554) wrote, " 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. "

    Due to the horrible resolution, if you viewed DVD movies close-up on this laptop, then you would see the square-ish outline of each pixel. However, this laptop would make a great portable, large-screen television. Just place it about 15 feet away from your sofa in the living room and crank up the brightness of the LCD panel. At 15 feet, your eyes would blur the outline of each pixel and would form a smooth contour of each object in the scene.

    Incidentally, this portable television would be excellent for viewing pornography when your wife has taken the kids to soccer practice on Saturday. About 5 minutes before she returns, you quickly delete the porn mpeg file, close the lid of the laptop, and shove it into the closet. No one would be the wiser.

  2. Re:slugs by HardCase · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What fraction of the Library of Congress is that?