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Hi-Grade announces range of three-lions notebooks

by Parm Mann on 29 August 2008, 10:07

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Time to forget the disaster that was Euro 2008. Having miserably failed to qualify, we Brits must turn our attentions to the bigger prize; 2010's World Cup.

Now, we all know we're going to win it (err...right?), but those of us who really like to show our support can get started early with Hi-Grade's officially-licensed England notebooks.

That's right, UK-based Hi-Grade has managed to strike an agreement with The Football Association that will see it produce official England products. The first is a range of laptops proudly donning the Three Lions crest.

One such notebook, the W5700R, pictured above, will arrive in a shell that somewhat resembles England's away kit.

We're uncertain if the England-edition will be given any hardware upgrades, but a standard W5700R provides a 15.4in screen, a 1.73GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1GB of RAM and 80GB of storage.

The standard model currently retails at £376, but pricing for the England-edition has yet to be announced. Hi-Grade tells us to expect the official England products to arrive in Q4 - giving us enough time to see if England can win its first qualifying matches for the next World Cup.

Official press release: HI-GRADE COMPUTERS TO PRODUCE OFFICIAL ENGLAND LICENSED PRODUCT

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Posted by this_is_gav - Fri 29 Aug 2008 11:48
Is it just me who sees a Fujitsu Siemens logo sticking out like a sore thumb?

Also. Urgh.
Posted by samcross - Fri 29 Aug 2008 12:39
2 reasons that this is rubbish
a)It's too expensive for the spec, and probably too expensive generally for the Chavs/Children that will want it.
b)It's more than a bit ugly
Posted by alsenior - Fri 29 Aug 2008 15:03
i thought hi-grade went under years ago.apparently not
Posted by Prufrock - Mon 01 Sep 2008 00:03
alsenior
i thought hi-grade went under years ago.apparently not

Nah, Hi-Grade are still around. I must say that they are also quite helpful when you have an out of warranty machine with major problems. Most manufacturers simply tell you to bugger off rather than give you anything useful, like advice on how to fix the issue.
Posted by Saracen - Mon 01 Sep 2008 00:59
An officially licenced notebook?

What kind of numpty cares about some brand-marketing exercise on a notebook? If you're buying an IMB/Lenovo, or Toshiba, or whatever on the basis of a track record of product quality, then fair enough. But that strikes me as the high tech equivalent of buying a perfume because Jade Goody promotes it …… or maybe Jack-the-Ripper razors.

Then again, it's football fans we're talking about so ….. ;) :D

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