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Gentlemen, start your computers.
Ladies, too. No manly skills are required to rev up Acer's Ferrari 3000. In fact, a light touch may be best.
The Acer Ferrari would be a satisfying laptop computer in the $2,000 price range strictly on the basis of specs, but the color - Ferrari red, unmistakably - takes this machine to a whole new stratum.
Though there's no silver-topped, gated gearshift lever and only a fairly ordinary twist in the engine - horsepower maxes out with an AMD Athlon XP-M processor - the style police will dish out kudos when you enter your work space with the hammer down ... rather, with the lid down.
The marketing of products is nothing new for Formula 1 racing teams. With extraordinarily high visibility around the world (except in the United States), organizations such as McLaren Mercedes and Williams- BMW and Ferrari draw high-end sponsors such as TAG-Heuer and Computer Associates, and Budweiser. In 2003, Acer became an official supplier to the Ferrari Formula 1 team, supplying it with notebooks, PCs, servers and monitors.
The bright red casing on the lid, decorated with a silver Acer logo...