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An 18 pound $9000 laptop
| May 6th, 2017 at 7:48:15 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | Shipping box  This is the heaviest and most expensive laptop in the world. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid and impractical. I want one. |
| May 6th, 2017 at 8:01:24 PM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 |
Haha... I enjoyed that. |
| May 6th, 2017 at 11:13:56 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18762 | I'd like to own it for one day just so I could lug it into one of our busy Starbucks and set it up. "All Your WiFi! is Mine!" You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| May 7th, 2017 at 1:48:32 AM permalink | |
| Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | What on earth do people do with such a machine? Look at cat videos at high speed? Take umpteen terrabytes to Starbucks? Would they drag an Encyclopedia Set to go get a Latte? Magnetic grip on touchpad? I thought it was best to keep magnets away from chips? |
| May 7th, 2017 at 4:20:06 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
They are designed for gamers. The same company makes laptops with ferrari logos, for people who just want a cool looking equipment.  |
| May 7th, 2017 at 5:20:38 AM permalink | |
| Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Yeah, gamers ... I should have known. Its something rather alien to me but I just found out a local mechanic plays several different computer games a day. |
| May 7th, 2017 at 9:15:16 AM permalink | |
| miplet Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 8 Posts: 975 | I just bring my desktop. "...remind me of clue: Colonel Mustard in the billiard room with the candlestick."- Derek Morgan |
| May 7th, 2017 at 9:45:07 AM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 | I don't think my long gone Toshiba portable weighed that much, but then again it might have. Monochrome orange CGA screen (128 shades! I think), 80286 processor (which I'm sure had a running speed of some sort), a whopping 1 (O-N-E) megabyte RAM, ports of all sorts (except USB), a 3.5" HD (for high-density) floppy drive and a 40 megabyte hard drive. It ran on MS DOS 4.01, and I used it a lot to connect to the internet using a terminal program, an external modem (so slow it's not even mentioning the "faster" one I got later on) and TELNET to connect elsewhere for email, Usenet groups and even a primitive, and frustrating, form of web with an all-text program called LINKS. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
| May 7th, 2017 at 1:56:58 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
My desktop weighs only 1.5 pounds and will attach to the back of a 7 lb television. So it isn't anywhere near 18 pounds.  |
| May 8th, 2017 at 8:07:26 AM permalink | |
| Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 | The Commodore SX-64 weighed 23 pounds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_SX-64 "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |