Acer's Ferrari-themed N50 Pocket PC
By Peter Rojas 
posted June 6th 2005 4:03AM
posted June 6th 2005 4:03AM
You knew (or maybe you didn't know, but at least we knew) that Acer was going to milk their gadget-licensing agreement with Ferrari for everything it's worth (see their line of Ferrari laptops), and the latest is a Ferrari-branded version of their N50 Pocket PC. This one runs on Windows Mobile 2003 SE, has a 520MHz processor, 128MB of RAM, Bluetooth, and WiFi, and should be available next month (which should give you just enough time to pick out a matching F430).
But you'd think with the Ferrari name they'd want the fastest PPC processor out there.
Anyhow, I love the CF card slot and USB host, which means I could connect my AlphaSmart Neo. (Would match that Ferrari red quite nicely. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y127/vrf/topview.jpg )
Damn i just orderd a black maranello .......well i just stick with my HP then and buy a ferrari sticker ........
well, acer's now a sucker for ferrari.
for the guy with the black maranello, there is a black acer ppc available under the name 'ferrari driving'. follow the Read link to the french site
http://www.pdafrance.com/img/pdanews2005/acerferrari2.jpg
What about Windows Mobile 2005 aka Magneto? Isn't that what we want on the latest phones - please
This is the first of the Ferrari-themed computers/laptops/gadgets that actually looks good. I might actually consider it if they keep the price point somewhere below a 612 Scaglietti.
Actually, Acer has a history of putting underpowered processors in at least one on their Ferrari notebooks. I looked at one of those notebooks, which had a pretty sweet graphics processor, but it was only running a amd 64 m 3000. They couldn't have ponied up for at least the 3400?