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20041201 Wednesday December 01, 2004

I drive a Porsche, but a Ferrari is in my trunk!

Ok, don't get the wrong impression, I've always loved my Porsche. Even though it's an older '84 Carrera Targa, this is my daily driver.

Well, I was lucky to get one of the new Acer Ferrari 3400 laptops which is certainly not powered by the sweet sound of the normally aspirated 6 cylinder 3.2L engine. This puppy is powered by an Athlon64 3000+ and I can tell you something for certain...it scoots right along while driving down the information super highway, and it doesn't even break a sweat when you compile 64-bit applications!

It's really nice to have a laptop that can run Solaris AMD64, and it sports genuine Ferrari red paint on it's case and even comes with a polishing cloth and a cloth cover!;-)

Fasten your seat belt with this laptop, because Solaris AMD64 really flies down the highway looking to solve tomorrows problems today.

( Dec 01 2004, 03:44:09 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [3]

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great for you. I can't see the entry in the hcl. Which devices are supported?

Posted by bbr on December 01, 2004 at 06:50 AM PST #

Alan, Could you post a little more about how much is working and not on your new Acer Ferrari 3400? I am contemplating the purchase of a new AMD64-based laptop and I'd definitely want to multi-boot including Solaris10? I'm also trying to compare the Ferrari 3400 to some other AMD64-based laptops that are based on the same(similar) chipset. So I'd be really interested in any 'gotchas' in the works working department. Thanks, SteveJ

Posted by SteveJay on December 05, 2004 at 01:57 PM PST #

They are nice machines... only problem I have is that when I want to buy one to run Solaris on I have to pay the Gates tax. Thus I fill the M$ coffers and help them destroy even more industries.

Posted by Volker A. Brandt on December 14, 2004 at 04:50 AM PST #

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