anyone need a laptop?

[Myuki]

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there's the link



goes for about $2000

[CaptainHenreh]

*yawn*

I wonder if you'll have to pay 500 dollars every 3000 miles for routine maintenance?

Did you know that Harley Davidson was going to make a computer? They didn't, because they couldn't figure out how to make a computer leak oil.

This is also why we've never seen the a MOPAR laptop. There are also no Jaguar or MG computers, but for a totally different reason: Computers involve wires, and we all know how good the British are with those.

[Evan]

that would have almost been funny if the laptop was made by Ferrari, but its not, its by Acer.

The Ferrari laptop line has actually been out for quite some time, one of my coworkers thought about getting one a couple years ago. You pay a little extra for the Ferrari red and the prancing horse. Nothing else is special about it. (but its still cheaper than an overpriced Sony)

[G.Irish]

I say buy whatever laptop you want and slap a Ferrari sticker on it. That's what I did to my gameboy instead of waiting for the Telefonica Movistar Honda Moto GP edition...

But hey, if Ferrari has another bad season I'm sure they'll knock the price down a bit.

[Myuki]

I say buy whatever laptop you want and slap a Ferrari sticker on it. ...

But hey, if Ferrari has another bad season I'm sure they'll knock the price down a bit.

I was thinking the same thing.

[CaptainHenreh]

that would have almost been funny if the laptop was made by Ferrari, but its not, its by Acer.

I can read, thank you. I'm not an idiot.

It's no more made by ferrari than the "ferrari" phone ferrari toolbox, or ferrari hats.

This was in both wired magazine and eleventy million PC magazines months ago. It's so people can have a laptop and phone to match their leather driver's jackets, gloves, sunglasses and hats for when they go for their monthly (if that) drive in their ferrari to their yacht for the weekend. It's not for nerds.

[G.Irish]

I kind of wonder who would buy such a thing though. If you owned a Ferrari would you buy one? I guess it depends on how rabid of a tifosi you are.

What I wonder is how many fair weather tifosi are going to be wearing Ferrari gear if:

A. Ferrari is weak next season too
B. GPWC goes through and F1 becomes Jordan, Red Bull, and Ferrari only.

Of course I guess the same can be said of any dynasty.