How Practical are 20-inch Laptops?

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How Practical are 20-inch Laptops?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday October 21, 2006 @04:45AM from the large-and-in-charge dept.

GeneralPacket writes "A 20-inch laptop might sound perfect for a game of Grand Theft Auto on the way to work, or navigating a mammoth spreadsheet. But are they really usable as laptops, or are they just luggable desktops? This week CNET attempted to work on the super-sized 20-inch Dell XPS M2010 laptop while travelling across London on the subway. The resulting video review is hilarious. This is not your typical tech video review — it's actually funny, and, refreshingly, completely advertising-free. The reviewer is in constant fear that anti-terrorism police are about to swarm him. Would you use a 20-incher?"

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Obligatory Penis Comment by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-21 04:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Would you use a 20-incher?

On behalf of my girlfriend, I have to say the answer is yes.
1. Re:Obligatory Penis Comment by toupsie · 2006-10-21 04:52 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Is that how goatse got that way?
  
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2. Re:Obligatory Penis Comment by pyrrhonist · 2006-10-21 05:03 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Would you use a 20-incher?
  On behalf of my girlfriend, I have to say the answer is yes.
  
  This brings a whole new meaning to, "hung like a baby".
  6 pounds 8 ounces and 20 inches long!
  
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3. Re:Obligatory Penis Comment by d474 · 2006-10-21 05:31 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I liked the part where the blond girl says to the black reporter:
  
  "I like black laptops."
  
  We got the double entendre, honey. Cute.
  
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4. Re:Obligatory Penis Comment by Hawthorne01 · 2006-10-21 06:01 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  "He will have an enormous schwanzstucker!"
  "That goes without saying."
  "Voof."
  "He's going to be very popular."
  
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5. Re:Obligatory Penis Comment by kypper · 2006-10-21 11:43 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Bah, it's just a stereotype that all black laptops have 20 inchers....
Leading question... by HiredMan · 2006-10-21 04:52 · Score: 5, Funny

Would you use a 20-incher?

I can't believe you ended a Slashdot post with a question like this... it's like T-ball.

What are you tying to do - flush the trolls into the open?

Sheesh,

=tkk

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1. Re:Leading question... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-21 06:23 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  You appear to believe that the reference might be mistaken for something sexual. Let me tell you, if you actually think that anything that might be called a "20-incher" is good for anything sexual, you are either a member of a different species, or you are the goatse.cx guy. For most normal humans anything sexual related to an "x-incher" ends somewhere around x=9; x=12 is a stretch (oops).
Now he just needs... by AsmCoder8088 · 2006-10-21 04:53 · Score: 5, Funny

this T-shirt and the look will be complete!
1. Re:Now he just needs... by WilliamSChips · 2006-10-21 05:22 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I thought British policemen didn't have guns.
  
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A new metric for reviewing laptops by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-21 04:59 · Score: 1, Funny

Pixels to hernias.
Ahhhh! by MBCook · 2006-10-21 05:02 · Score: 4, Funny

So what did we (*buffering*) think of the (*buffering*) Dell (*buffering*)....

What a maddening video! I tried to pause it so it could load up (like You Tube, Quicktime, and every other civilized video player) and it wouldn't. It would load up the next second of video then stop buffering. Combine that with their bandwidth problems (thanks, Slashdot) and it's almost impossible to watch the video.
Still. 20"? I though 17 was too large. That thing is huge. And yet they gave it a 9.2. IT'S A FREAKING DESKTOP. As a laptop it should get a 6. Plus, it has two drives in RAID 0. That's an INGENIOUS setup for a LAPTOP.
If they marketed this as a compact, all in one, portable desktop I could see it. But it's not a laptop unless you weight 600 pounds.

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1. Re:Ahhhh! by corngrower · 2006-10-21 05:24 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  But it's not a laptop unless you weight 600 pounds.
  
  So what you're saying is that most americans should find this acceptable?
2. Re:Ahhhh! by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-21 06:17 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Mongor's fingers too mighty for puny laptop! Mongor need 20" Dell!
Envy by Kildjean · 2006-10-21 05:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Dell has obvious imac 24" envy

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Hrmmm by sheriff_p · 2006-10-21 05:11 · Score: 4, Funny

The chick looking at it and telling the guy breathlessly that she preferred the big black laptops rather than small white ones made it for me :-)

+Pete

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Re:You, sir.... by ettlz · 2006-10-21 05:13 · Score: 5, Funny

No, no, no! Not diameter! ...
Re:Out of personal experience by garcia · 2006-10-21 05:14 · Score: 4, Funny

All I can say is that it is an outstanding machine and works perfectly if you want to watch movies while lying in your bed.

So is my TV/DVD combo and they weigh about the same! :)
Re:Ugh by Brandybuck · 2006-10-21 05:48 · Score: 4, Funny

Why not just get a nice big external display like everyone else does?

Because you still have the problem of opening that big external display in the economy-class airplane seat. :-)

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Obligatory Penis Comment Complementary by Poltras · 2006-10-21 08:09 · Score: 4, Funny

Yes, but would you use a 20-incher with an exploding battery?

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Will there be... by T.Louis · 2006-10-21 09:17 · Score: 2, Funny

...a kevlar version, or atleast one with spikes where I can beat up people with lesser laptops?
Re:You, sir.... by mobby_6kl · 2006-10-21 11:54 · Score: 2, Funny

>No, no, no! Not diameter! ...

Radius, then?
Re:They are nothing more than desktops for Panera by SeaFox · 2006-10-21 12:43 · Score: 3, Funny

Most people don't want a "laptop". Instead, they want something that they can take to Panera and do their work w/o being in the office.

Did anyone else read that as "something that they can take to Pantera and do their work..."? I was wondering who does work during a rock concert.
Re:So much for the video. by Kris_J · 2006-10-21 13:30 · Score: 4, Funny

Yup. Com
pletely unw
atchable. Can so
meone please post i
t to YouTube?