I recently decided that sooner or later I would have to get a new computer. Not because my computer doesn't do the job - its just that I need one that can do the job wherever I am - not just at my desk.
Yes - I have resisted portable computing for long enough. I need a laptop.
So I started doing some research and someone (Derek) mentioned a Ferrari Red Acer (The Farrari 3000). I'd seen them listed, but was intrigued enough to want to find out more. So a couple of google's later I found an article about that acer notebook.
Why do I bring all this up? Its not because I want to tell the world about my need for a notebook. Its not because there is a Ferrari Red notebook available. Its because Rob Enderle who wrote the article about the notebook amazed me by being so cliche.
In the article Rob actually wrote the following lines:
"One impressive piece of execution is that when you fire the machine up it plays a WAV file of a Ferrari race car revving its engine. That alone is worth the relatively low $1,899 price of admission. (I found it priced as low as $1,725 at PCVideoOnline.) Even when I'm in a meeting, I don't turn the sound off because of the unbridled envy that seems to show up in the eyes of my, granted mostly male, co-attendees. So far no one has complained. "
I had to double check the date the article was written... yup - January 2004. In the year 2004 there is a man that thinks other men envy his 'sports car' laptop computer and the Vroom Vroom noises it makes.
*sigh*
Ah well.
andre
Posted by andre at March 5, 2004 12:15 AM