UPDATE 4/11Moving on to more valuable, less disgusting products, I'm sure you recall my summer 2005 post about my laptop's defunct hard drive. Electing to save money, I patched it together and made the best of things. Last week, counting down the full 60 seconds it required for my machine to detect and open a USB flash drive's folder, I cracked. A new laptop is on its way. Let's compare the hardware specifications.
I've searched Google, and can't find much evidence of the Quizno's Maine lobster salad/sandwich. The only article I see is one that mentions the company is testing it; I can only assume that Kansas City is one of the markets that this monstrosity is being tested, because Kim and I saw the commercial for it again tonight. I was 10 feet away from the TV screen, but I'm confident there was a disclaimer that read "51% lobster". Needless to say, it is another harrowing night for my stomach.
2001 MODEL INSPIRON (purchased for $2200)
14.1" screen
Removable floppy drive
24x read-only CD drive
2 USB 1.1 ports
10 GB hard drive
32 MB video card
128 MB memory
850 MHz Pentium 3 processor
2008 MODEL INSPIRON (purchased for $1300)
17" widescreen
absolutely no floppy drive
DVD/CD drive that can actually burn discs
5 USB 2.0 ports
320 GB hard drive
128 MB video card
3 GB memory
2.0GHz, 667Mhz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
built-in wireless so I don't have to use a PC card like a chump
Finally finally finally.
8 comments:
I don't know, Dan - is 320 GBs going to be enough?
Excellent, just don't kid yourself that the dvd drive will actually burn more than 5 discs before going the way of all laptop drives...!
Oh, and you lucky sod, the same in england would be about £1300 rather than the £800 odd you're getting it for.
I live in the wrong country...
When Phil, Shawn and I worked at Subway we got numerous calls regarding people getting sick from eating the seafood salad sandwich. That Quizno's Maine Lobster sandwich is just asking for a breakout of salmonella enteritidis.
Pat
@Floyd: that was actually the smallest option I could go with. It's absurd
@Dougal: Yeah, my old laptop's CD drive crapped out a while back. I just went with the cheapest option I could. Oh, and if you want to bitch about the exchange rate of dollars to pounds, you won't find much sympathy around here. Do you think I went to South America because the dollar is so awesome? With the way our economy is going, I won't make it to Europe until I can teleport there.
@Pat: Wasn't the Subway seafood completely fake? Was it soy or something?
Attaboy. 3 GB of memory? Wierd.
Really, no body is going to make a comment about the download speed for your porn with your new Intel Core 2 Duo processor? Where's Matt at? Sean?
I'm not sure what it was made of. I do know that one of the so called 'sandwich artists' (Shawn! kidding) let it sit on the counter for a few hours before serving it one hot July 4th. I think that's where most of the calls regarding food poisoning stemmed from.
Pat
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