"designed by Porsche" my ASS
http://www.cnet.com/techtrends/0-6014-7-20573465.html?tag=ld
"The VPR Matrix 200A5 is the third notebook Best Buy has created, and it's the best. It's also the first Windows notebook with a wide-aspect, 15.2-inch LCD with a 1,280x854 native resolution and a remarkable, high-fidelity digital audio system. The $2,399 system also includes a 2GHz Pentium 4-M, 512MB of DDR SDRAM, a 40GB hard drive, a combo CD-RW/DVD drive, and integrated 802.11b wireless networking. It all comes in an eye-catching, silver-magnesium case that weighs 6.4 pounds and measures 13.9 inches wide, 10 inches deep, and 1.2 inches thick."
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"What's the Porsche connection, you're wondering? The notebook was designed by Porsche Design GmbH, the Austrian firm founded by F.A. Porsche, grandson of the famous engineer."
This machine is a BLATANT rip-off of Apple's G4 PowerBook, from the aspect ratio of its display to the matte silver of its magnesium case (titanium rulez, magnesium drools!) I'm sitting here reading that this thing was "designed by Porsche" on a machine that looks JUST LIKE IT and was produced nearly TWO YEARS AGO.
Everyone in the computing industry is desperately eager to do two things:
A) Bad-mouth Apple Computer
B) Copy Apple Computer
Best Buy is so eager to do them both that it has gone to significant trouble to make sure that you know ("know") that they had someone famous design THEIR laptop, and that it is NOT a hackneyed copy of the machine with which they are trying to compete.
Makes me SO MAD.
"The VPR Matrix 200A5 is the third notebook Best Buy has created, and it's the best. It's also the first Windows notebook with a wide-aspect, 15.2-inch LCD with a 1,280x854 native resolution and a remarkable, high-fidelity digital audio system. The $2,399 system also includes a 2GHz Pentium 4-M, 512MB of DDR SDRAM, a 40GB hard drive, a combo CD-RW/DVD drive, and integrated 802.11b wireless networking. It all comes in an eye-catching, silver-magnesium case that weighs 6.4 pounds and measures 13.9 inches wide, 10 inches deep, and 1.2 inches thick."
...
"What's the Porsche connection, you're wondering? The notebook was designed by Porsche Design GmbH, the Austrian firm founded by F.A. Porsche, grandson of the famous engineer."
This machine is a BLATANT rip-off of Apple's G4 PowerBook, from the aspect ratio of its display to the matte silver of its magnesium case (titanium rulez, magnesium drools!) I'm sitting here reading that this thing was "designed by Porsche" on a machine that looks JUST LIKE IT and was produced nearly TWO YEARS AGO.
Everyone in the computing industry is desperately eager to do two things:
A) Bad-mouth Apple Computer
B) Copy Apple Computer
Best Buy is so eager to do them both that it has gone to significant trouble to make sure that you know ("know") that they had someone famous design THEIR laptop, and that it is NOT a hackneyed copy of the machine with which they are trying to compete.
Makes me SO MAD.