A funny thing happened at the Pizza joint the other night...

I was sitting in a Pizza house here in Atlanta at about 1:AM with a friend and former colleague. I had just finished loading M$ Streets and Trips and was rewarded with a quick, less then 10 second, satellite lock and location on the map! I was happy with the EM408 GPS installation and my CF-29 in general and I guess that our enthusiasm attracted this fellow.

He walked over to the table were we were talking. He looked like a GT Grad Student and was carrying what looked like an Alienware . He said, "Hey is that one of them Toughbooks I have been seeing on TV?" I told him yes, that I had only had it for a couple of months and that we were discussing modifications I had made to it.

He asked me what CPU I had in it and I told him a 1.6 Centrino. He kind of wrinkled his nose and told me that he had a Core 2 Duo processor! I told him that was pretty impressive!

He then quickly asked me how much RAM I it had, I told him 2.25GB and he seemed underwhelmed. He told me that he had 4GB in his, again I told him that was awesome.

I told him he had a very nice and impressive machine and that mine was just an older notebook I had fixed up and needed for an upcoming job.

Unsatisfied with his "triumph" he then went on to tell me that he had heard many great things about the Toughbooks but after talking to me he could not understand what was supposed to be so great about them.

I told him that I it would be easier to show him and asked him to set his mega-laptop on the table next to mine. While continuing to chat I quietly closed the lid on my machine and raised it above my head in both hands. He suddenly became alarmed and asked me what I was doing. I told him that I was going to use mine to smash his to bits and the interesting part was mine would still work.

He snatched his expensive machine off the table and left us howling! :laugh:

 

My ToughBook can beat up your Fluffbook any day ....

 

Great story.... But I think I would have him put it on the floor beside yours.... Then you stand on yours and tell him to do the same! Either that or pour water on the screen and keyboard..... They ask him to go ahead and do it to his.

Great story though....

 

My latest status facebook status update of "Robert likes to jump on his laptop" has raised many questions from my friends and family...

I am so dead serious about these computers that I won't stop at trying to destroy one of the cf-19's I have in inventory just to prove a point to my customer at my store.

Also, my fiance has made the appointment for Feburary 13th to get my "Toughbook" tattoo ... No, I'm not crazy, I'm just a devout Toughbook user! I've posted the simple tattoo logo that I will be getting. I'll post pics too!

 

A tatoo is forever. You might consider getting just the word "TOUGH" with boxed border to mimic the ToughBook logo.


25 years from now when computers have been completely replace by cranial implants, your tattoo will still say something relevant about your personality ...

 

Yeah, I really hate that Commodore 64 Tattoo I got now...

 

Azrial,

any pic of the commodore 64 tattoo

 

Yeah, I really hate that Commodore 64 Tattoo I got now...

You should worry Azrial - count yourself lucky you weren't in the UK in the early days of computing. Back in the early 1980s the BBC Computer Literacy Project led to them producing the first readily available PCs

So how do you go about explaining a tattoo that reads...........

I Love BBC ?

 

How much weight can it handle

 

I believe they have survived at least a Chevy Tahoe, one wheel at a time of course!
CAP

 

A contestent from biggest loser could stand on it ,heck I think you could drive a car over it . Toughbooks are it period ...

 

great story. I did the water trick myself to show a friend. Needless to say it passed with flying colors but I was worried

 

What were you worried about? Were your fears confirmed, or did they turn out to be false alarms?

 

This place is what to much a " sausage fest" for me to be showing off any scars, marks, or tattoos!

Well my first store-bought PC was a British Timex-Sinclair so I was close!

Here is a Hummer driving over one!

 

Timex Sinclair! Likewise, my first computer - sold as the ZX81 in the UK. What was it - a clock speed of about 3 Mhz and 1KB onboard RAM, five minutes for a program to load? Those were the days!

 

They were fun. where did them time go. I leared to program on them and wrote some programs for them. I rember doing one that a friend done. I was doing it on mine so I could save to tape. It was about 5 pages long, the pages were about a5 in size. I was just finished and the worest thing could of happened and got it to run, there was power cut.