Acer Plans A 16 lb. Notebook 514
jagger writes "Well not exactly gigantic but at 16 pounds and sporting a 17-inch screen this thing is stretching the term portable. It also features a 3EGHz Pentium 4, 1GB of RAM, a 7200rpm 160gb hard disk, DVD-burner and the kitchen sink. ZDNet has a rundown of all of this beast's features." This sounds like a joke (or a typo), but the story says otherwise.
Poor move.. (Score:4, Funny)
The company is marketing the Aspire 1710 as a replacement for desktops or PC workstations primarily in the workplace.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
A laptop with docking station does the same thing with far less luggable weight, albeit at a higher price.
3 GHz P4. OK, that's pretty nice.
1 GB RAM. Nothing special about that.
160 GB disk. So what? How many offices don't have a server to store everything on?
DVD burner. Optional on some laptops and you can always use an external to a docking station.
Kitchen Sink. So what? Carry a small bottle of Purell [purell.com] in your pocket.
This has got to be a "Hail Mary" to keep brand recognition in the portable market or one of the worst marketting decisions this year.
Wondering what battery it uses? (Score:5, Funny)
OMG! (Score:5, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)
What the hell? (Score:4, Funny)
History lesson (Score:2, Funny)
never mind.
Acer has *nothing* on Apple (Score:3, Funny)
I cough in Acer's general direction. 16 pounds, that's nothing! Apple already has a 40lb [apple.com] notebook for sale. That's a full 24 pounds heavier than Acer's, and it has a 20" LCD to boot! Yupm you guessed it, it's called an iMac.
Really now, the article says this brick actually uses a 120GB desktop IDE drive, just cause you throw a hinge on a desktop with integrated LCD doesn't make it a notebook. If this is how Acer plans to recapture the North American market I wish them luck.
A Hummer of a Lugtop (Score:3, Funny)
And will Rob Enderle be infatuated with it?
Kitchen sink? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wondering what battery it uses? (Score:3, Funny)
Clock speed!??!?! (Score:3, Funny)
3 exa-giga Hertz? Let's see, that's 3 * 10^18 * 10^9 = 3 * 10^27 Hertz. Maybe Intel will always be faster than Apple.
Oxymorons (Score:3, Funny)
16lbs and notebook used in the same sentence. Hah
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Lead brick (Score:5, Funny)
And at 16 pounds, and with that 3Ghz processor in there, it will burn your legs AND cut off circulation to them at the same time!
In other news... (Score:3, Funny)
Ford has announced plans for a new steam-powered roadster. "We believe this new vehicle will set a new standard for vehicle perfomance and efficiency, easily surpassing both oxen AND mules for both speed and maneuverability", a spokesman said.
lug nuts (Score:3, Funny)
Re:OMG! (Score:3, Funny)
Ferrari laptop? (Score:3, Funny)
like alienware (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Perfect plan to design a laptop that won't sell (Score:5, Funny)
is it going to be dubbed . . . (Score:2, Funny)
Re:why would anyone buy this (Score:5, Funny)
Only if. . . (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Powerbook.......all the way (Score:2, Funny)
I've only got a 9", but it's the best laptop.....
Oh nevermind....
First: Ferrari laptop, now: Hummer (Score:5, Funny)
Will Rob Enderle buy one?
Re:OMG! (Score:3, Funny)
[insert sexual innuendo or crude comment here]
Re:OMG! (Score:3, Funny)
Okay.
You're sister's the laptop version of your sister.
She's on top of my lap right now, actually.
Re:Poor move.. (Score:2, Funny)
Acer's new corporate partnership (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Poor move.. (Score:5, Funny)
However, one selling point maybe the fact that this notebook is just $1,499 - which is quite cheap considering the configuration
Given the cost and weight, mabye they saved money by swapping out the titanium or aluminum case for the much lower cost cast-iron case...
Re:like alienware (Score:5, Funny)
... as if being a Gamer Geek wasn't enough of a form of birth control...
3E gigahertz? thats impressive (Score:3, Funny)
is well worth the 16 pounds it weights. Yet again acer has shown itself to be well ahead of
the curve. May the innovation continue.
Re:OMG! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Poor move.. (Score:5, Funny)
1989 called.... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:1-hour battery life, 2 hours to charge (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What the hell? (Score:1, Funny)
Signed,
Gravity
Re:Poor move.. (Score:4, Funny)
With three nicely spaced holes, you could use it for bowling.
Choose Apple instead. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Poor move.. (Score:2, Funny)
And it doubles as a Dutch oven.
Re:Poor move.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Poor move.. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Not a poor move (Score:2, Funny)
Then why do you leave him at home?
Re:Not a poor move (Score:2, Funny)
more like a gap (Score:5, Funny)
Re:OMG! (Score:5, Funny)
Too big for the lap, but is doable on the desk.
Re:Poor move.. (Score:4, Funny)
A lunchbox may certainly be better, but I haven't seen one in real life for almost 20 years (well, I have one in my garage, but it's 20 years old). I'm not big on the whole "do what everyone else does" thing away from work, but at work I enjoy drawing attention to myself in positive ways, not by being strange and different.
Re:Powerbook.......all the way (Score:3, Funny)
1.) extremely high quality
2.) aesthetically pleasing
3.) lightweight
4.) really really expensive
you forgot this: 5.) as comfortable as a beesting in the eyeball.
i don't care how great ibooks are or aren't i won't EVER buy one until they offer a mouse BUTTON instead of that all-too-annoying touchPAD.
Touchpads are the most asinine pointing devices ever devised by mankind and I'll never own one.
I don't care if the iBook prints $100 bills legally every minute for the rest of my life, I will NEVER own a laptop that has only a touchpad.
I will throw myself between a mother bear and her cubs before I'll own a touchpad pointing device.
no ibooks for me i guess. no big loss from what i can see anyway.
Re:Poor move.. (Score:2, Funny)