Porsche Designs a Laptop

An anonymous reader writes "Cnet is reporting that BestBuy is selling a porsche designed widescreen ultra thin laptop the looks almost exactly like a Tibook. Sadly, it runs windows so no one will actually want to use one for real work, but it looks pretty cool for minesweeper. Ah, I guess that the TiBook is no longer a status symbol if you can run Windows on it. It has all the trimmings, like those "made for windows 2k stickers" that get the screen all nasty when you close it."

Will it Save Xmas?

[Blackneto]

Thats what I want to know before I switch.

If only you could get OSX emulation

[OptimizedPrime]

Then you could run OSX on top of you w2k porsche book while the guy next to you runs 2k to manage a server by using Virtual PC on his Ti book.... I'm not touching the recursive possibilities

Ummmm...

[bricriu]

Sadly, it runs windows so no one will actually want to use one for real work...

*coughcough* Zealot! *cough cough*

Re:Bash, Bash, Bash

[Anonymous Coward]

Everyone knows Porcshes are shiny and red, not a screen of blue.

Re:Bash, Bash, Bash

[Insightfill]

I think it's been determined in court that selling Windows was the crime of the century.

Re:Bash, Bash, Bash

[blackcat++]

It is fine not to like you Windows, but you don't have to make it that using Windows is the crime of the century.

You're new to Slashdot, aren't you?

Finally!

[Cy Guy]

BestBuy is selling a Porsche designed widescreen ultra thin laptop the looks almost exactly like a Tibook. Sadly, it runs Windows

Finally, I'll be able to crash a Porsche and be able to walk away.

Any hope of getting an OS free version?

Re:Ummmm...

[sql*kitten]

*coughcough* Zealot! *cough cough*

Indeed. I have thought about this for a few minutes, and I am unable to come up with an example of "real work" that can be done on a laptop that cannot be done on a laptop running Windows - altho' I can very easily think of applications that are available for Windows (or Solaris if your laptop is a Tadpole) that aren't (yet) available for MacOS X. Perhaps the original poster could enlighten us as to what exactly they do for a living?

Re:Bash, Bash, Bash

[Conare]

I disagree. CmdrTaco's story selection is completely objective, and the anonymous reader's story submission is very well balanced. Now where did I put the rest of that acid.
Welcome to Slashdot.

Troll

[Strange Ranger]

CmdrTaco: "I'm bored, heehee watch me start a flame war."

Posters: "We'll take that flame war! And we'll raise you 40 off-topic posts!"

Re:Ummmm...

[L. VeGas]

Perhaps the original poster could enlighten us as to what exactly they do for a living?

sell mac's?

Re:who really made it

[foistboinder]

The VPR Matrix 200A5 is the third notebook Best Buy has created, and it's the best.

That's like saying Moe was the smartest stooge...

Re:If only you could get OSX emulation

[Anonymous Coward]

That's like a married couple both having sex changes.

Re:Bash, Bash, Bash

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course they have more time on their hands. They're sitting around waiting for the next nightly build of Mozilla they can download and compile.

Reverse flamebait!

[Anonymous Freak]

those "made for windows 2k stickers" that get the screen all nasty when you close it.

Uh, doesn't Windows 2k get your screen all nasty when you open it? :-)

Good grief.

[American AC in Paris]

From the article:

I'm not an audiophile, but I know high-quality sound when I hear it. That's definitely the case with the VPR Matrix 200A5, thanks to the Sonopür Digital Audio system, with its patent-pending 24/192 upsampling technology. This system dramatically enhances digital music and offers very rich sound.

I'm not a stable hand, but I know horse shit when I smell it.

I mean, I know I'm supposed to either be 'ooh'-ing or 'aah'-ing, but the best I can manage is a 'hwah?' Sonopür? What, does the umlaut act as a built-in sounding board for the thumping, thumping base this ultraslim laptop undoubtedly cranks out? Upsampling and high fidelity used in the same sentence? Right.

Hey, cnet! I've got this little Gaussian blur filt--uh, I mean, JPEG Edge Enhancement System, with patent-pending Blürfexxion(tm) technology! Care to give me a writeup?

Re:Will it Save Xmas?

[poopsie]

No, that's Porsche. Porche [apple.com] will save Christmas.

Working on Windows

[gcondon]

Boy, a lot of people have been jumping all over the following quote from the original post ...

Sadly, it runs windows so no one will actually want to use one for real work

As many have pointed out, the majority of the world (to their eternal shame) actually does use Windows to do their work.

However, I will stand by the original poster and observe that precious few of them wanted to use Windows.

Heck, pretty few of them even wanted to do their work in the first place and using Windows is rarely a satisfying experience in and of itself.

Just because they did it, didn't mean that they wanted to ;-)

When did Porsche start designing boxes?

[sjonke]

Rather, boxy things. Every porchse car is curvy, arguably even too curvy. This laptop is all sharp angles. It's a pizza box. I don't see "Porsche" in it at all, except perhaps in frequency of crashes.....

Re:Bash, Bash, Bash

[Neon Spiral Injector]

Bash, Bash, Bash? Don't you mean cmd.exe, cmd.exe, cmd.exe?

I know, seriously...

[CaffeineAddict2001]

I can't tell you how many times I've picked up a date in my porche to have them run out of the car screaming when the onboard computer boots up windows.

Not to add to the flamewars but...

[maggard]

Isn't magnesium pretty flammable? I mean, I know in a high-oxy atmosphere nearly any metal will burn but I recall Magnesium being one of the easier-to-get-going ones. That combined with a faulty Lion battery could be kinda fun...

"My Best Buy / Porsche laptop just crashed & burned!"

Kinda makes we wanna go out and get one now... Naw, still drooling over Apple's TiBook.

Re:Will it Save Xmas?

[operagost]

Janie informs that instaling a digital camera in Windows sounds like ARRRRRRRRRRGNH!

Re:Still lacks something...

[blair1q]

Yeah.

When your Mac locks up, you can rest secure in the knowledge that it's got the best form, fit, and finish of any locked-up Mac in the cubicle.

--Blair

Command.com, Command.com, Command.com

[yerricde]

It is hard to take this post seriously when all it does is bash Windows.

The article doesn't bash Windows the way Cygwin bashes Windows [cygwin.com]. Cygwin bash is better than the alternative [command.com].

you don't have to make it that using Windows is the crime of the century

For the poor, it is. A one-seat Windows XP license costs $300 [microsoft.com]. If you use Windows without paying for it, you have committed either theft or copyright infringement.

Plus, you're not timothy.

It Really **IS** a Porsche

[dbretton]

It's ugly as all Hell.
It's too damn expensive.
I betchya it's lots of fun to play with.
And when I turn it on, I'll have lots of SEX

Probably with myself most of the time...

Re:Bash, Bash, Bash

[Lochin Rabbar]

Thats even a more retarded statement! Man, you guys are in the running for the most ignorand and uneducated pro linux argument ever!

There are some times when you really don't want to make a typo.

I buy a Porsche to get chicks...

[kyoko21]

My car isn't a Porsche, but my computer is. Does this mean I will have hot chicks now?

Re:Cost comparisons...

[Hard_Code]

Wow, you're right, an overpriced laptop from a famous Porsche design company costs about the same as a TiBook. Wait...your point was...?

Re:Will it Save Xmas?

[Moofie]

You know, I talk to a LOT of people who hate Macs because the System 6 toaster Macs they used in college touched them inappropriately or ate their homework one time ten years ago.

"Real" Windows computer? Define.

Re:Pathetic

[timeOday]

Just wait until you see the Packard-Bell 911 turbo.

I suppose...

[kitzilla]

...VW will now design a knock-off of the iMac.

For the last time...

[Anonymous Coward]

Reading through the posts, I just want to say one thing:

It's Porsche!!! There's an S in there!

It's not Porche! Maybe a lot of people associate Porsche with a nice patio on the front of their house. I don't.

PORSCHE!

Problem with car company laptops

[Ilan Volow]

The value of the laptop goes down by 20% the second you drive it off the Best Buy lot.

Re:What's the big deal that it comes with windows?

[sean23007]

I suppose the assumption is that anyone who drives a Porsche doesn't know how to install Linux. I don't know why that would be assumed, but maybe it's because it's hard to work through all the text based installation screens while you're going 200 mph...

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Re:If only you could get OSX emulation

[Rib Feast]

Unlike a fat kid in gym class, it still looks good running slow ;)

Yeah, but is it as fast?

[Anonymous Coward]

Top speed of a 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo is listed as 190mph (manual trans), with a 0-62mph time of 4.2sec. D'ya think this thing can match that?

Re:What's the big deal that it comes with windows?

[Dog and Pony]

That wasn't the point. You have to say stuff like that to get your submission approved here. :)