BenQ's Joybook A52 widescreen lappy

Damn skippy BenQ has a new Joybook out that will almost certainly never make it to the US: the A52, to you. As usual, BenQ has foregone any serious product photography (seriously, what the hell kind of backwards company wants to show off their consumer electronics on the internet, we ask?), but despite a wide 16ms 15.4-inch DBEF (Display Brilliance Enhancement Film) WXGA (1280 x 800) display, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M graphics, Core Duo CPU, 802.11a/b/g, drives up to 120GB, dual-layer DVD burner, and PCMCIA slot, this kinda low-ender only lands with Vista Basic. Don't worry though, Taiwanese consumers, we hear Asia's a pretty sweet place to pirate the occasional copy of Windows if you need a quick bump to Ultimate.

[Via MobileWhack]

[Blackster @ Feb 19th 2007 7:29AM]

so the american blackmarket isn't competetive anymore ryan? ;)

[dave @ Feb 19th 2007 7:56AM]

who needs blackmarket when you've got illegal torrent?

[casperright @ Feb 19th 2007 8:03AM]

Hey~ Ryan,

That's FREAKY MAINLAND CHINA version of "Pirate of Vista"
How on earth that ANY heck to do with TAIWAN
BTW, It's REALLY NO good humor with YOUR commment,

bad link at least :(

[Elijah Snow @ Feb 20th 2007 2:09AM]

Well... no.... even in Europe evidence of Asia's thriving piracy industry is everywhere... and Taiwan... jigga please... you can see evidence of pirates everywhere in Hong Kong so why not Taiwan