Hard time deciding whether today is a Ferrari or Lamborghini day

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AkirIkasu@reddit

You should add in a generic Sony laptop since they've entered the auto market now.

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fretinator007@reddit

I'ma out here in my Pinto hoping the battery doesn't catch on fire.

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officialsanic@reddit

How come your Acer Ferrari has the shell of a Travelmate 8000? Also fellow Acer Ferrari owner but I can't get the recovery discs to work for some reason.

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Lumpy-Valuable-8050@reddit (OP)

it looks to be a mix-match of parts so i assume it was damaged and repaired. I guess this explains it!

So in reality it's an acer ferrari 3000 motherboard, travelmate 8000 palmrest, with ferrari added decals, acer ferrari 3200 nameplate thing - and the bottom case is from a ferrari 3400 lol

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gen_angry@reddit

Hopefully runs better than Dawid's experience, lol.

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Lumpy-Valuable-8050@reddit (OP)

I saw this video before i got my acer and i raged at how he wasted half the vid trying to install steam, when he could've just gotten "legal" copies of games online or a physical disc and try those games out.

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micksterminator3@reddit

These videos make me mad. Like no shit it can't run fortnite lol. I think I'm the only one that keeps it era accurate with software and performance is always more than acceptable with what I test. I recently got a low powered 8th gen i5 Dell laptop with hd 620 graphics. It's been fun putting it thru it's paces with games I know are within its reach. Plus this thing has VGA out for my CRT monitors. It'll fly at 640x480-1024x768 at high refresh rates with ease.

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officialsanic@reddit

Yeah for the early 2000s most people had physical games anyway.

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gen_angry@reddit

Yea I don't think he's that knowledgeable about the older methods and hardware. Still a pretty funny vid though.

Looking at the specs for 'acer ferrari 3000', it looks like a pretty sick machine for 2003-2004.

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DegenerateCuber@reddit

Meanwhile I have to decide whether today is a Ferrari day or my other Ferrari day

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OpacusVenatori@reddit

Had the Ferrari 3200 back in the day; one of the worst-designed laptops I’ve ever had. Mostly because the IDE HDD was installed upside down right below the left palm-rest, so with a 7200rpm drive that area would burn up after being on for an hour or two.

Then the BIOS had a drive size limitation of 128GB…

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Lumpy-Valuable-8050@reddit (OP)

yeah since it was a slide in bay i had to get a HDD - otherwise i would've just used a compact flash storage like i did with the lambo

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OpacusVenatori@reddit

Before I retired the whole system, I used a 2.5” IDE 44-pin adapter enclosure to mSATA, and slapped in a 120GB Orico mSATA SSD. Worked well enough for a WinXP install.

Couldn’t justify the price at the time for even a used Intel mSATA or Samsung Evo… 🤪

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Lumpy-Valuable-8050@reddit (OP)

any chance you still have it? lying around? lol

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OpacusVenatori@reddit

The whole system? Yeah it's somewhere in storage, I know that for a fact 'cause I remember saving it someplace the last time I consolidated storage. But I'm currently not in the best state to go hunting for it =(.

I got so mad at the palm-rest heat issue that it basically became a glorified desktop with cooling pad running underneath. It felt like such a waste at the time using the Ferrari as basically a Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller...

Ended up replacing it with an off-lease Dell Precision M70. Gave up the 64-bit AMD CPU, but kept a 2GB RAM config, dual internal SSD configuration, nVidia Quadro 1400 graphics, and best of all, 1920x1200 screen resolution =P.

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Lumpy-Valuable-8050@reddit (OP)

funny how we went from 16:10 to 16:9, only to go back to 16:10 again lol

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Lumpy-Valuable-8050@reddit (OP)

The models are Asus Lamborghini VX1 and Acer Ferrari 3XXX?

(I can't find much information about this ferrari as most 3200 models i see, have the silver palmrest, whereas this one has a grey one. I don't mind though as it looks much better. On the bottom of the ferrari it says it's a model 3400 so i have no clue. The gpu is a radeon 9200 which makes it match the acer ferrari 3000 specs. Maybe it's just a laptop that got mashed up with different parts and frames from being damaged? No clue.

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Mvromeo@reddit

The grey palmrest is probably from a Travelmate (660, 800 or other).

Ferrari 3000 came with an Athlon XP-M cpu and Radeon 9200, 3200 and 3400 with Athlon 64 and Radeon 9700.

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Lumpy-Valuable-8050@reddit (OP)

yep it's defo a 3000 with the shell of 3200/3400 then.

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TheGillos@reddit

Am I the only one who removes all the stickers from the inside? Lol.

I did it then, so it feels authentic to do it now.

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Lumpy-Valuable-8050@reddit (OP)

For the asus one, you are probably supposed to remove that big sticker talking about the specs, for the ferrari ones, it's part of the design.

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thedirr@reddit

First time I've ever seen a laptop with a Marlboro logo and and not the smoke only. Sweet machines

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Soros_G@reddit

The Lambtop has itself as the background? What an ego

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bok4600@reddit

LGR did a video on the Ferrari laptop several years ago

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Lumpy-Valuable-8050@reddit (OP)

Yeah he basically has the second generation of both these laptops (Ferrari 4000 and Lambo VX2S)

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AgentOrange96@reddit

My favorite part about these laptops is the fact that these high end car manufacturers patterned with laptop manufactures known for being low end.

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Lumpy-Valuable-8050@reddit (OP)

If you think about it, then Asus and Acer were probably also fierce competitors in 2000's - as that's when asus was actually making affordable stuff lmao.

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AsusP750@reddit

Very cool

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elvelazco@reddit

Lamborrari :/

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Potential_Copy27@reddit

Ferramborghini :)

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electrowiz64@reddit

You should load vista in the lambo laptop lol. I remember seeing commercials with vista in it

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Lumpy-Valuable-8050@reddit (OP)

So the sticker on the ferrari is "supports winxp, compatible with win2k" and for the lamborghini it's "supports winxp but vista capable" - I decided to keep it on winxp as the windows key on the asus is not the windows vista variant - which has a circle around the windows logo

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