Even though the U.S. government may
want nothing to do with its computers, Lenovo's still got so much love for the red, white, and blue that it's releasing a special-edition notebook branded with one of the most recognizable American icons: everyone's favorite tooth-decaying soft drink. Oddly enough, the company's Coca Cola-red, Pentium M-powered F20 was designed in honor of the 2008 Olympic Games -- which are not only two years away, but taking place in China, and not the U.S. (where was this lappy in 1996 when the Games were held in Coke's hometown of Atlanta?). Anyway, besides the snazzy paint job and stick-on Olympic rings, this version of the F20 is pretty much your run-of-the-mill 12.1-inch laptop, sporting an ULV 1.66GHz CPU, 512MB of RAM, integrated graphics, an 80GB hard drive, and all the ports, wireless radios, and card readers you've come to expect from notebooks these days. Obviously priced in yuan, this model is going for the equivalent of $1,575, but since Lenovo knows that you can't possibly resist drinking a Coke while you're using this machine, they're throwing in some of that high-tech
Batmobile-style armor plating on the house.
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posted June 20th 2006 1:13PM
its communist china red...
"Who the hell would want a coke notebook? "
Dude, I'd be all over that. Apparently you have no sense of irony. The whole *point* of wanting a coke notebook is that nobody would want a coke notebook!
Agreed on the specs vs. price, though. My Acer laptop has a 1.8ghz Turion 64, 1GB RAM, 100GB hard drive and a dual layer DVD burner and it cost $800 at CompUSA.
Maybe the red has more to do with China than Coke.
are you people retarded?
This is an ultralight notebook. Those usually come at a premium.
5lbs is not an ultraportable notebook.
I think the only people who would want this would be Coke employees...
Why do I want to pay them so I can be a walking billboard? Why doesn't have the coke logo on it reduce the price by like a couple hundred to pay me for showing it around.
Not that I would buy it anyway...
Same reason people by anything designer. Which is again, paying someone to advertise for THEM.
I suppose I should get used to welcoming our new small but numerous chinese overlords.
Where can I get a Pepsi notebook?
I wonder how it stacks up in a blind taste test.
which ultralight is the best? Great keyboard, excellent display resolution and optic drive inside are important to me. Thanks,
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