Comments on: Ok, who didn’t get an Acer laptop? https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop/ Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Rob Mayfield https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop/#comment-204 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:15:14 +0000 /blogs/robfarley/archive/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop.aspx#comment-204 Other than Windows itself, I wonder if the free Acers were preloaded with vulnerabilities ?

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-012007.html#00001073

]]> By: robfarley https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop/#comment-203 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:52:08 +0000 /blogs/robfarley/archive/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop.aspx#comment-203 šŸ™‚ I wasn’t being all that serious. I figure that people who receive stuff like that are lucky, but that it’s not worth trying to ‘create’ luck like that. If they want to offer me something, then great. But if not, so be it.

]]> By: Michael Walsh https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop/#comment-202 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:07:45 +0000 /blogs/robfarley/archive/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop.aspx#comment-202 Don’t look at me… my reach doesn’t stretch that far. Besides, last time I heard NOTHING gets out of Acer without a receipt LOL.
Give Edelman a ring before the unwanted ones all end up on eBay šŸ˜‰

]]> By: robfarley https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop/#comment-201 Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:28:10 +0000 /blogs/robfarley/archive/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop.aspx#comment-201 Ah, I see. Nice. Really what I need to do is find someone who works for Acer who would give me a nice desktop-replacement machine that I can use for training, presenting, that kind of thing. Something which will happily run Virtual Server with SQL2005 installed. šŸ˜‰

]]> By: Michael Walsh https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop/#comment-200 Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:42:27 +0000 /blogs/robfarley/archive/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop.aspx#comment-200 I know. You’re thinking: there are hundreds of JMPs out there so why should this be any different?
What normally happens when MS rolls out a new software (it happened before with Windows XP Tablet Edition in 2002) is that they showcase it on fully-working machines (obviously).
Microsoft orders and pays for “x” number of notebooks from whatever PC vendor it chooses (Acer on both occasions can’t be a bad sign LOL) and then demos them or sends them out to “a chosen few”.
In this case the same happened with the Acer Ferraris but rather than go to journalists, they went to bloggers. Like I said, brilliant PR for Acer (heard ANY bad comments about the machines so far??). If only we’d known in advance….

]]> By: robfarley https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop/#comment-199 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:36:15 +0000 /blogs/robfarley/archive/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop.aspx#comment-199 Hmm… that’s interesting. šŸ™‚

]]> By: Michael Walsh https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop/#comment-198 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:13:45 +0000 /blogs/robfarley/archive/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop.aspx#comment-198 Hi Rob,

Sorry Iā€™m late to the party but I thought youā€™d appreciate some input from Acer.

No, wait. FULL DISLOSURE: I work with Acer EMEAā€™s marketing team. I have my own independent blog with no official affiliation with Acer yada yadaā€¦

Sorry, Scoble-induced safety measuresā€¦

OK. The ā€œfree notebookā€ story is on everyoneā€™s lips, so are the names involved, Microsoft, Edelman and Acer, not to mention Microsoftā€™s growing list of MVPs.

There are hundreds of conspiracy theories floating around (well one big one really) yet I just wanted to throw this spanner into the works.

Acerā€™s EMEA marketing team knew nothing about this. Sounds crazy I know but itā€™s true. In fact Iā€™ll go so far as to say we only found out after Scoble published!

Of course someone must have known, as that many Ferraris donā€™t get out the door that quietly in one go but whoever it was probably thought heā€™d just made his Christmas bonus.. For us, it was a great way to end the year.

Talk about free publicityā€¦!

Iā€™m not condoning or attacking these marketing tactics, but youā€™ve got to admit that from my standpoint, Acer couldnā€™t have asked for more.

]]> By: the happy moose https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop/#comment-197 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:11:37 +0000 /blogs/robfarley/archive/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop.aspx#comment-197 reg has picked this up also …
http://www.theregister.com/2007/01/02/microsoft_free_ferarri_pc/

]]> By: robfarley https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop/#comment-196 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:44:53 +0000 /blogs/robfarley/archive/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop.aspx#comment-196 Mitch, I agree. Some of my favourite feeds are ones that have many people contributing. But I also keep coming across blogs (I should say ‘feeds’, because they’re certainly not always individuals) that I want to subscribe to. Technorati can be good, but often they can be way to broad in the number of posts they pick up.

]]> By: Jeff Wharton https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop/#comment-195 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:04:31 +0000 /blogs/robfarley/archive/2006/12/29/ok-who-didn-t-get-an-acer-laptop.aspx#comment-195 Wow, talk about a storm in a tea cup! Sounds like a the only people complaining are those jealous people that didn’t get one.

BTW – Australian IT even has a news article about it : http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20986786%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

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