Do it yourself videos: Gemstone Blue
- posted by Michael Walsh on April 4th, 2008
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This is a bit of a giggle really. Don’t take it too seriously.
I promise I’ll do better in future.
Anyway, the other day I was looking for videos of the Gemstone Blue to post here. I mean my Google alerts have been firing off a couple of times a day ever since the launch event but apart from articles based on stuff I wrote, there’s very little to actually look at.
So I went out an made my own.
OK, I know it’s an awful video – the lighting is terrible and this one was a prototype so the specs were all wrong but I had fun making it and that’s all that counts isn’t it? Isn’t it?
Who knows if they’ll let me back in to make more.
Whatever. Enjoy!
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Scarlet wrote, on April 10th, 2008:
*ROTFL* music from the Benny Hill show!!! haven’t heard that in ages!!
that is a LOVELY laptop, but man that’s effin HUGE!! how much that bad boy weigh? 10 lbs?
this is why i adore the c100, yeah i know it’s older & a bit slow at times, but for me the price (used) and the weight were perfect. i am disabled and hauling around a huge monstrous laptop for classes and whatnot just is not possible.
no doubt though i AM drooling over this beauty!!
ty!! for the laugh and the info!!
Michael Walsh wrote, on April 10th, 2008:
You thought that was funny? I’ve only just started my career as The Acer Laughing Stock…
Wait to you see the next one… (bet you don’t recognize the music i that one and, yes, I do take requests!).
Official figures say:
Dimensions 8920:
441.4 (W) x 300 (D) x 40.2/44.2 (H) mm (17.4 x 11.8 x
1.58/1.74 inches)
Weight: 4.1 kg (9.04 lbs.)
Dimensions 6920:
385 (W) x 275 (D) x 43.6/39.3 (H) mm (15.13 x 10.81 x
1.71/1.55 inches)
Weight: 3.5 kg (7.72 lbs.)
But I think they’re optimistic. Think Bentley, Mark Levinson (Hi-fi), Boeing… It won’t kill you, but your chiropractor might not recommend it…
Morris Lee wrote, on April 11th, 2008:
ahha, very nice video, greate music, but never heard of it. that laptop is a beauty, wish they’d make it in 15.4 inch or even smaller one, my aspire 5920 is like a shiny brick that I carry around…. 6.6 lbs + my school binder + my small tablet board + mouse + power adaptor too much, only wish my c100′s battery still work…(battery is too old and won’t hold charge anymore). By the look of the sticker on the 8920, looks like it is got core 2 quad? I recall the C2Q had red stickers and C2D had blue…. definitly a desktop replacement. until I have my own car, then that WOULD be a nice lappy to have