New Ferrari AI HP PC insane price

[97prizm]

Hi All,

I just saw that Ferrari partnered with HP for their new laptop. For the $5,600 price and exclusive 4,999 being produced (can't Ferrari round up?). I'd have thought 802.11 be (WiFi 7) a 20" 8k four led like sharp did (rgby for supposedly an extra million colors). It should have an exclusive carbon fiber frame as well. What do you think?
Ferrari Limited Edition Laptop

 

[melk]

$5600 will buy a nice MacBook

 

[wwillson]

I think the price is insane and that is has to have the Ferrari name on it to sell kinda proves the price is insane.

 

[Pew]

HP took an Elitebook and painted it red.....I'm gonna paint me CEO's elitebook red and put a ferrari sticker on it now . She'll believe it makes it faster. "I don't know why you're complaining about the speed. You literally have the ferrari of computers."

Although the bottom is really cool though. That would be an awesome idea for somebody to custom make.

 

[JohnnyJohnson]

$5600 would buy me 8 of what I have. This will suffice.

 

[Vercingetorix]

Looks like it’s a perfect solution. It is being discussed and there is no bad publicity.

 

[CleanSump]

It's the same as paying $26 for a $5 cup with the BMW logo or $35 for a $15 baseball cap with some team name. There's even a market for potato chips shaped like Jesus.

 

[MrHorspwer]

Not the first Ferrari-branded laptop. Ferrari previously partnered with Acer in the 2000s.

They were absurdly expensive back then too. A quick search shows a $2,500 MSRP in 2006.

 

[Lawnman23]

I mean, its pretty. Not $5,600 pretty, but pretty enough...

 

[f355spider]

Not the first Ferrari-branded laptop. Ferrari previously partnered with Acer in the 2000s.

They were absurdly expensive back then too. A quick search shows a $2,500 MSRP in 2006.

I bought the Acer used from a friend for a great deal, he only used it for a month. It was a very nice laptop and gave great service. I did have to swap out the hard drive once. It finally quit working...I still have it sitting in a closet somewhere. It was very pretty and had a nice wired red Ferrari logo mouse that I still use occasionally.

 

[robbobster]

I liked Ferrari when they built cars to fund racing, more than I like them as a “luxury brand” selling licensed products to fund shareholders / Agnelli family fortune

 

[spackard]

I’m going to stick with my red stapler.

 

[dogememe]

$6000 and all you get is an Intel Arc GPU?

 

[97prizm]

I liked Ferrari when they built cars to fund racing, more than I like them as a “luxury brand” selling licensed products to fund shareholders / Agnelli family fortune

It's funny to think that Enzo only wanted to race. I can't remember who but he was told he needed to build street cars to support his racing habit.

 

[97prizm]

$6000 and all you get is an Intel Arc GPU?

I thought the specs should have been better. I'd kind of like to see dual hard drive capability come back. My 2006 HP has the ability to run two hard drives. I know with terabyte hard drives it makes it moot.

 

[97prizm]

$5600 will buy a nice MacBook

Or an even nicer Linux laptop that doesn't have the Apple tax.

 

[Bottom_Feeder]

Ferrari's gotta pay Hamilton's salary somehow.

 

[dogememe]

I thought the specs should have been better. I'd kind of like to see dual hard drive capability come back. My 2006 HP has the ability to run two hard drives. I know with terabyte hard drives it makes it moot.

I mean despite pricing going up due to AI chip demand you can still easily get a 4TB NVMe SSD. Many larger laptops have two NVMe slots so that’s 8TB of SSD storage. Do you really need more for a laptop? I don’t see any use case for a rotational hard drive anymore.

 

[dogememe]

Or an even nicer Linux laptop that doesn't have the Apple tax.

Yeah, it’s too bad you can’t just run Ubuntu on a Mac. I loved my MacBook Air M4 (besides the lack of a numpad) and their unified memory architecture is awesome for local AI but MacOS was a deal breaker.

 

[wwillson]

I mean despite pricing going up due to AI chip demand you can still easily get a 4TB NVMe SSD

You can still get NVMe drives, but wow are they expensive! I bought a 8TB Samsung 9100 about 6 months ago for $1000, now they are $2300!