Microsoft gives Ferrari notebooks to blogger

I guess that notebook must be the minimum spec required to run Vista ... sorry could not resist.

Would be nice to see them sending notebooks that the average user would be buying then you might get something resembling reality in the feedback from it's use.

why beale thinks he might have gotten the notebooks. if he accepts them then his credibility has to be questioned. it's called yellow journalism and it don't matter if it's a blog or the new york times.

I could care less, this has to be the most absurd piece of technology. Hope this bloggers have some sense of aesthetics!

Nat: Companies *always* do this; this is not some big underhanded thing. As if MacAddict wasn't biased enough, Apple sends them demo machines too, and we don't question their credibility.

Those Ferrari notebooks are mighty nice; I wish I had one.

Hay Guys, I only want to drop a word about Ferrari and Vista, I have been using Vista on my 4005 Ferrari for 2 months now, and I can tell you that it's very fast, for some reason, Vista fit Ferrari just as if it was made specially to it, I don't want to sound like these who would say "double the performance", I always hate these comments, but the performance is considerably noticeable.

I think I'm not the only one who noticed this, this is why they are giving away these lapis.

I'm hoping to switch to Mac when Leopard is out, I've been playing with my colleague Mac for a while, and I love the work flow, I hope in the future there will be a move to sell the OS separate for other Intel machines, it's not easy to get apple machine where I live.

Tack said: "Apple sends them demo machines too, and we don't question their credibility"

As you said, Apple sends "demo" machines. These are temporary "loans" to a journalist or testing facility at a publication. They are not gifts. The machines are to be sent back after a certain period of time.

There is a big difference between the two.

Apple's demo machines, maybe. But software companys and smaller hardware companies send review machines to reviewers and do not get them back.

And Redmond will be giving everybody laptops, just so somebody is using Windows :)

Seems the rush is on to try and cash in on the phenom of free laptops. One guy has blatantly stepped forward with a message directed at Steve Jobs: "Send me a MacBook and I'll say nice things about Leopard, the iPod, and whatever else Apple produces." Is there no shame?

See http://www.launchpad39.com/blog39/blog39.html. Comments are apparently sought.