Libretto Adidas Edition
I'm undecided if this is literally the tackiest
notebook promotion I have ever seen or if this is signalling just how
desperate Toshiba is to offload notebooks to the consumer, Crusoe-based or
otherwise. Now for your buying enjoyment (insert deep sarcastic tone) you can
buy a 2002 FIFA Word CupTM
stylized Toshiba Libretto, and carry case - all looking like a soccer.
Seriously.
This commemorative model with unique nameplate is scheduled to begin sale
in December and continue until the limited supplies is gone, or February 28th,
2002. If all this leaves you felling like your watching the shopping channel
you're not alone. Just read this little translated excerpt to see how deeply the
soccer motif runs, as if a notebook made to look like a soccer ball wasn't deep
enough.
"In addition, the screen saver where the wallpaper and former world cup
victory country where countdown to world cup opening day is indicated are shown.
The original contents such as whistle sound and begins cheer large number are
loaded." Okay so Bablefish hasn't got the Japanese language quite down-pat, but
the gist of it seems to be that the opening sound when the notebook is
started is a crowd roar, and when an error happens you get a referee
whistle.
The Toshiba Libretto Adidas Edition (L3/060 TN2L) features a 600MHz Crusoe
processor, 128MB memory, 20GB hard drive a 10" 1280x600 pixel screen and runs
with Windows 2000 Professional. More info can be found here and here, all of it in
Japanese.
