[The above image is taken from Sager’s official website.]

I noticed this ludicrously powerful notebook computer in the news today. It has a quad-core CPU, dual 8700M-GT video cards in SLI mode and triple 200GB hard drives. It’s so powerful in fact, that instead of having a battery, it claims to have a built-in UPS instead. And since it weighs 11.5 pounds without including its power brick, can you really call this thing a laptop?

I’m an tech enthusiast myself, but this item serves as a perfect illustration of my puzzlement at how some people go completely crazy in an overboard way over the latest and greatest gadgets. I play a lot of computer games so naturally I need a gaming computer, but from my observations there are people who will happily pay ridiculous amounts of money just to be able to own powerful computers that they don’t really take full advantage of. Similarly, I can appreciate the utility of devices like mobile phones, PDAs and even ebook readers but I’m certainly not the kind of person who buys them just for the sake of buying them.