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CNET tests 20-inch Dell on the subway!

Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by sandfish, Oct 19, 2006.

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CNET have a video of them testing the new 20-inch giant Dell XPS M2010 on the subway train in London (the Tube), and then on a London bus -- it's funny (and refreshingly advert-free). The expressions on other passengers' faces are insane.

The guy reviewing it basically ends up dragging this $3,700 laptop through tunnels it's so heavy. Are 20-inch laptops just too big?

sandfish, Oct 19, 2006

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Wow, they totally ripped off Laptop Magazine with that idea, which was done a month ago: http://laptopmag.com/Features/Attack-of-the-20-inch-Notebook.htm?Page=1

Andrew Baxter, Oct 19, 2006

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watching him slide it across the floor like that made me cringe...

Goren, Oct 19, 2006

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Haha, pretty amusing.

I hate being in the center of attention - that guy must have nerves of steel with so many people glaring and looking

coriolis, Oct 19, 2006

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and a security force off-camera to keep the bums in the tube stations away.

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That was funny stuff. That thing is a MONSTER, though. Who in their right mind would buy that thing and actually carry it around?

spartanpredator, Oct 19, 2006

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