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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: 217 Posts: 22942 | 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!" "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |
| 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 |