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This Viewsonic TPCV1250S may not seem all that impressive at first, but when you read its description on Amazon, you’ll discover that this demure Tablet PC holds inside a 10GHz Athlon and a 30,000GB hard disk. Amazing! And if you read the reviews (and you should), you’ll discover that the desktop nuclear power supply isn’t nearly as inconvenient as you’d think. Some users find the warping of time and space around the unit to be somewhat distracting, to say the least. Still, at only $2,200, I’d say it’s a bargain. Someone at Los Alamos must have a boat mortgage to pay off.
Gizmodo
Catalog PagePS: Not sure if this is in the right section But it is a tablet PC
Razorwing
Mar 24 2005, 03:00
QUOTE(LG1 @ Mar 23 2005, 22:44)
GizmodoCatalog PagePS: Not sure if this is in the right section But it is a tablet PC
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wtf 30000 GB HD?
SeMz...
Mar 24 2005, 03:01
LOL what the ****
username();
Mar 24 2005, 03:06
whoever did that is a ****ing moron
russ0943
Mar 24 2005, 03:07
bs
HoochieMamma
Mar 24 2005, 03:08
Ahh I see my time machine has worked...good...good......
Must be a error on the site!
I got one of those back in 2056. I remember when they first came out. The flux capacitor kept burning out, unless I gave it exactly 1.21 jigawatts of power. I used it for a navigation system on my first starship. Man those were the days, can you imagine wanting to slingshot around the Sun? What were we thinking?
Anway, thanks for the trip down memory lane.
ok ok ok who is doing the "Customer Reviews" on amazon.....one mistake and everybody is doing a joke review haha
PermaSt0ne
Mar 24 2005, 03:14
QUOTE(SeMz... @ Mar 23 2005, 19:01)
LOL what the ****
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screw the article, wtf is up with your icon
sundayx
Mar 24 2005, 03:16
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As soon as I powered this thing up, there was a bright flash. Then a voice came on and said, "You have no chance to survive, make your time. All your base are belong to us."
Man, some of those reviews had me busting out laughing
cchasem
Mar 24 2005, 03:20
QUOTE(HoochieMamma @ Mar 23 2005, 22:08)
Ahh I see my time machine has worked...good...good......
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lmao.. im still laughing at that. it's because i thought almost the
exact same thing when i read this.
a_witko
Mar 24 2005, 03:27
When you think about it, it's not really that super that you can make up stories about the year 2056... it's only twice as fast as todays, the same amount of RAM as many of todays computers have and a 30TB hard-drive... I bet we'll all have computers like this in Q4, 2006.
Starships? 2056? Pfft.
Well, I'll never be as Super as you. But I'll keep on trying.
Can't blame me for that, man.
some of the reviews are comedy.
russellc
Mar 24 2005, 06:26
looks vaguely like this exponentially worse tablet:
on the
viewsonic site
pyehac
Mar 24 2005, 07:12
I loved how it said that it ran on the DOS OS.
stezo2k
Mar 24 2005, 13:25
and to those who thought i was mad for supporting amd
to you
but seriously, i doubt we'll have PCs like this til about 2010
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...e&s=electronicsIt was a typo -
Features:
1.00 GHz AMD Athlon
2000 MB DIMM
30 GB IDE Hard Disk
Some of the comments are so funny
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A Kid's Review
I got this today, even before I knew about it. It's soooo fast that it went into the future and the past at the same time and came to me! It knew I wanted it! Yay! But, I dont know. I lost my left leg. But Larry gave me this tingling sensation. Larry is his name.
I tried to play house with it, but it decided to shock me and threw me down on my bed. I dont remember anything after that, but I hugged Larry.
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I had purchased this computer thinking that it would last me awhile before I would have to upgrade. Boy was I wrong!! I mistakenly thought it had a 30TB (terabyte) hard drive... but it only has a 30GB (gigabyte) hard drive, how lame is that!!!
I had planned on using this computer to download the internet. You know, as a back up, I was even going to offer to host it on my new Viewsonic in case there was a nuclear war or something. But with only a 30GB hard drive that will be hard to do. I'll be surprised if I can even fit XP SP 2 on this machine.
Of course as others have mentioned this computer is great at helping you build a spacestation and launching it into orbit or computing prime numbers. Although with the tweaking (read overclocking - blast the warranty!!) I was able to get my Viewsonic to reach infinity in only 28 seconds. Who says green jello isn't a good coolant???!!
SkyyPunk
Mar 24 2005, 15:04
yea the download the internet as a backup one is halarious! lol
edgefield
Mar 25 2005, 13:45
let em be the first to ask... does it run linux?
Maelstromm
Mar 25 2005, 13:55
Guess no one read these reviews either:
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I invented the Internet. I store it and run it on one of these babies. However, I can no longer afford the electric bill, so I will be disconnecting it at the end of the month.
Please save all of your online files to your local PCs.
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This thing is AMAZING! Aside from the 10ghz, they forgot to mention the optical recognition and bran scanning screen. It knows what I want it to do and BANG! does it instantly. My only complaint is that it was a measly 14 hundredths of a pound (.014 lbs) and it BLEW AWAY when i took it to the park! Then some bird came and stole it from the tree it landed in and used it for its nest at the top of the giant redwood. I was heartbroken. This is the worst paperweight I have ever bought! Thanks alot, oops i crapped my pants!
No one noticed how the weight was 14 hundreths of a pound?? That was even funnier than having DOS as the OS.
DARKFiB3R
Mar 25 2005, 15:07
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let em be the first to ask... does it run linux?
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"The only thing I'm ****ed about is the poor driver support for linux. I just think those linux geeks are lazy.. I posted in a few chatrooms and got lip about how they don't support quantum processing architecture yet. So what that the processor has 33 billion instructions a 600 millions registers.. I mean come on, how hard could it be to reprogram the linux kernel and compile it so that it runs in 2,048,000,000,000 bit mode (instead of 32-bit)? It can't be that hard... and its not like these guys don't have the time... "
suppose that answers your question.
DARKFiB3R
Mar 25 2005, 16:41
Amazon have taken down all the feedback comments
Some people have no sense of humor.
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