Microsoft Handing Out Ferrari Laptops to Bloggers

Well my good friend Long Zheng is reporting a number of other bloggers have been receiving them as well, but it seems that Microsoft is handing out brand spanking new fast Ferrari laptops loaded with Vista to influential bloggers. that little article about switching to a Mac a few months before Vista's big launch didn't help things. Ha. Hey I will say this though. The Mac kicks serious ass and I bought the thing with my own money. And if I had to do it over again I would. It was $2,800 very well spent. It's the best computer I've ever used in my life. Someone from Intel's PR firm did offer me a free high end laptop about 3 months ago as part of a group blog that they were putting together. The idea was that I'd use the laptop and then write about how I used it. I turned them down. Somehow it just didn't feel right to me. I also turned down Microsoft's offer to make me an official Microsoft MVP earlier this year. I'm not saying it's wrong to take the free laptop. I almost took the one Intel offered but in the end I felt conflicted. On the other hand I did take the free 750 gig Seagate drive that Robert Scoble gave to me from Seagate. Seagate sponsors his Photowalking show. I'm not sure why that feels differently to me. Maybe it's because I was already using Seagate (and in fact had purchased three of the identical drives with my own money) and it didn't feel like the free drive would compromise my opinion of it. It was a pretty public thing, well disclosed, (we Comments Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark Murdok: Thomas Hawk is a San Francisco based photographer and technology writer. He publishes the web site Zooomr