Fake Chinese Laptop
10:01am, 29th September 2007
In a shop called Loja Chinesa (”Chinese Shop”), an outlet of all things cheap, plastic and Chinese, I found this:
The non-qwerty keyboard layout is understandable, but the number row reading 123456712? They use Hindu-Arabic numerals even in China, don’t they? I can’t remember what the sticker on the bottom right read, but it wasn’t “Microsoft” or “Windows”. However, there is significant innovation here: no less than four hardware buttons dedicated to smileys!
The fake Intel Inside sticker is dainty:
Check out the screen (click for a closeup):
Yes, it’s just glued on, and it’s not even a real screenshot. I like “interner explorer”, and the sheer ballsiness of “PREEMINENT ORIGINAL”.
Finally, the whole hunk of junk had the kind of costus minimus squeak a real laptop engineer couldn’t dream of building:
your laptop is confusung, is it just merged together images, on the screen i see win98 icons but new win logo on the start menu, but on the laptop i see a designed for winXP sticker, but if its designed for XP how could the windows (or actually called start menu button @ least on normal windows computers) button on the keyboard be the old windows logo
It’s not a real laptop at all; it’s a toy :)
@Doug: That is, the laptop is a plastic case with a print out of a mocked up desktop stuck onto it.
Are you kiddin.
It is OBVIOUS that it is a Toy.
From the first view you can tell.
But this is absolutely no fake.
greets
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