Notebook with Huge 20 Inch Screen Reviewed 307
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!"
Not only that, (Score:5, Funny)
For a limited time with our 17lb units (Score:5, Funny)
Amazing (Score:4, Funny)
Battery capac... (Score:5, Funny)
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?
Battery power (Score:5, Funny)
"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?
Similar in weight to my x286 laptop (Score:4, Funny)
I got a beautiful x286 laptop with a couple megs ram and a 10MB drive that weighs that much :) Anyone interested?
http://psychicfreaks.com/ [psychicfreaks.com]noteBOOK? (Score:3, Funny)
market segments (Score:1, Funny)
Re:lb? (Score:1, Funny)
Having taken up all that desk space (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Only 1680 x 1050 resolution (Score:4, Funny)
And soon after the cash did, the laptop would as well.
Re:The SUV of notebooks... (Score:5, Funny)
Just because... (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, but..... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Only 1680 x 1050 resolution (Score:5, Funny)
I did that long ago. The problem was that the CRT made the laptop a bit top heavy.
Big Muscles! (Score:5, Funny)
** Applies only to those reading this Slashdot article
Re:lb? (Score:5, Funny)
Jedidiah.
Re:Only 1680 x 1050 resolution (Score:3, Funny)
Indeed. It isn't size that matters - its what you do with it that counts.
17 lbs is heavy? (Score:3, Funny)
Hmm.... Maybe I was nuts.
"super-multi DVD burner" (Score:2, Funny)
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?
Re:The SUV of notebooks... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Force != Mass (Score:1, Funny)
Size (Score:1, Funny)
That's it? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:For Extreme Power Users Only?? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not only that, (Score:3, Funny)
That said, at 17lbs, it's much less the Acer Aspire as the Acer Perspire.
Maybe they can get Sure to sponsor them.
17 lbs... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Just because... (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe this is part of a hidden agenda to get tech people in better shape? I hear they sell a 4 pound USB mouse to go with this thing...
Re:lb? (Score:4, Funny)
That's right, ten inches in a foot. 100 inches in a yard and 1000 yards in a mile. What could possibly go wrong?
Re:lb? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:lb? (Score:5, Funny)
The next Mars Rover exploring your backyard?
Re:lb? (Score:3, Funny)
obsolete [reference.com]: 2. Outmoded in design, style, or construction;
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Oddly the US is, technically, a metric country. Some selected quotes from this page on the history of metric measurements in the US [unc.edu]:
"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.
Re:For Extreme Power Users Only?? (Score:3, Funny)
Not anymore.
Re:Just because... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not only that, (Score:3, Funny)