Comments on: MacBook Pro emblazoned with sponsorship logos

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:19:10 +0000

What, no Microsoft logo? :P

By: Spencer

Spencer — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:11:56 +0000

wow, this is RICEY!!
How about a Type-R engraving??

By: s0crates82

s0crates82 — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:51:05 +0000

Derek is right, the whole idea behind the sponsorship is being SEEN.

I’m sure if there were a way to get one of these, via advertisers, there’d be a clause in the acquisition that required you to visit a public place with your computer for at least four hours a week.

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:35:21 +0000

I don’t think there would be much incentive for sponsors to chip in on a desktop machine supported in the same manner as the MBP above. At least in the case of the MBP, advertiser exposure is successful each time this machine is opened at a coffee shop, hotspot, library, school, etc.

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:22:05 +0000

I suppose no one would sponsor a new desktop machine for ME…

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:11:44 +0000

Hmm, I’d rather have the Koenigsegg CCX. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koenigsegg_CCX

By: s0crates82

s0crates82 — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:31:46 +0000

if i could afford the gas, insurance, and upkeep?

…yes I would. In a heartbeat.

My masculinity is not defined by my car.

Derek: would you pass up the pure driving pleasure of the fastest consumer-available vehicle on the planet because of it’s feminine exterior?

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:15:50 +0000

s0crates82, would you drive a Bugatti Veyron wrapped in bright pink with obnoxious Tampon adverts slapped from bumper to bumper?

By: s0crates82

s0crates82 — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:18:05 +0000

Paid sponsorship for autos has been around for consumers for awhile too.

basically you get a free car, if you can stand daily-driving a toyota echo that’s enshrouded in a red bull advertisement, or somesuch.

if that option were available for a laptop…if it were wrapped in a sponsors badging. I’d take a free macbook, thinkpad, pavilion, whatever. hey, free laptop!