"I don't know what to buy, let's go to the place and look." Eric touched the hair that was deliberately messed up by Linda? ?”
Carter Moen took a break recently. The driver was another bodyguard in Eric's security team. He happened to be a New Yorker. Seeing Eric's image change suddenly, he even questioned whether the boss had been outsourced. Hearing It was only after he opened his mouth that he was sure, and said, "It's on Fifth Avenue, next to Bryant Park."
"Just go there," Eric nodded and told the driver to drive.
Best Buy is the largest retail chain of electronic products in the United States. Linda thought of the Walkman that Eric played with at breakfast, and knew that it should be related to this matter.
It was past working hours, and the road was not congested at all. It took less than ten minutes for the car to arrive from the Upper East Side outside the Best Buy chain store near Bryant Park.
Eric took Linda out of the car, and there was no parking nearby, so he asked the driver to drive away.
It was a working day and it was working hours, so there were not too many pedestrians on Fifth Avenue. However, after the car left, the two standing on the side of the road still attracted the attention of some pedestrians. It's not that Eric and Linda were recognized. Linda's exquisite makeup skills made Eric hardly recognize himself. The main reason for being noticed is that the image contrast between the two is really a bit big.
Eric's hair was messed up at this time, and Linda's handsome face looked young and mediocre after being modified by Linda. He was only twenty-five years old, but he looked more like his early twenties at this time, because there was no After changing clothes, the light gray shirt on his body was slightly wrinkled, looking like a slovenly college student.
On the other hand, Linda was beside her, her hair was tied into a bun, she was wearing big sunglasses, and she was wearing flaming red lips. It looks radiant. The black knee-length dress tightly wrapped her exquisite and slender body, holding a Prada bag in her hand, and a decorative fur waistcoat was just right on her shoulders, adding a bit of aristocratic air. more importantly. This woman was still standing on sky-high heights. She was originally about the same size as Eric, but at this moment, she completely set off Eric like a boy with a bag in terms of height and temperament.
Noticing the slightly envious and contemptuous eyes of passers-by around him when they looked at him, Eric looked at the small appearance of the woman next to him who had succeeded in a prank, and said with a smile: "Are you very proud now?"
Linda thought Eric was angry. Quickly and affectionately took his arm, and said with a smile: "Ah, I also want to wear the same makeup as you, but he doesn't look like it."
Eric didn't believe her words, but he didn't feel too much in his heart. He has been a human being for two lifetimes, and now he is in this position. The opinions of outsiders will not have any influence on him.
Letting Linda hang on himself, Eric pushed open the glass door of Best Buy and walked into the store. The hall was full of large household appliances. After looking at the product distribution map, he led Linda inside and said, "Do you know that our current situation fits very well with a certain atmosphere in the European court era."
"What?" Linda, like Eric, ignored the gazes of the people around her and asked, "What?"
"At that time, it was very popular among European ladies to adopt talented young people as lovers, and those young people also liked to eat this kind of soft food."
Linda smiled and said, "I've never heard of it, you must be making it up, ha ha."
"Of course it's not made up. Many historical celebrities have eaten this kind of soft food."
Linda still couldn't believe it. Asked: "Who is there?"
Eric thought for a while and said, "Rousseau."
Linda nodded: "I really want to hear about it."
"Balzac."
Linda's small face under the sunglasses showed a look of surprise: "Wow, really?"
Eric nodded: "And Tchaikovsky."
Linda opened her mouth slightly, with an expression of disbelief. After a while, it seemed as if he suddenly 'entered the show', and he waved the Prada bag in his hand proudly: "Little Ike, just pick whatever you want, and I will buy it for you."
"..."
Linda seemed a little excited and forgot to lower her voice. The few customers and waiters in the store had already noticed that they were a very mismatched man and woman. Hearing this, another wave of contemptuous eyes fell on Eric.
Passing through the large appliance area, Eric happened to see Apple's brand counter, so he led Linda over there.
After a general browsing, Eric is not very interested in the Macintosh computers and poerbooks that look full of 'retro flavor'. The laptop he often uses now has become an ibm thinkpad. Without Jobs, the design of Apple products can only be described as bad.
However, a small thing similar to a tablet computer caught Eric's attention.
He motioned to the salesperson in front of him who peeked at Linda from time to time to see that he was obviously not pleasing to the eye to take out the tablet from the counter. Eric played with it roughly, and saw the 'on' logo on it, and then remembered, This should be Apple's early Newton tablet computer.
The salesperson saw Eric fiddling with the tablet computer in his hand, and even scratched it with his fingers, with undisguised contempt in his eyes, and was even more displeased with the fact that the guy in front of him had hooked up such a beautiful woman as Linda . I deliberately watched Eric swipe his finger on the screen in vain for a while before handing over the stylus, and introduced in a blunt tone: "Sir, this tablet needs a stylus."
"Oh, I actually forgot that," Eric murmured, picked up the stylus, writing and drawing became smoother this time.
"This is Apple's latest Newton mp110 series, with advanced handwriting recognition function, very suitable for high-end business people, the price is 799 dollars," the salesperson deliberately bit at the price of 799 dollars, for most ordinary people , $799 is definitely not cheap. Compared with the simple functions of this tablet, it can even be described as a luxury. However, to his disappointment, Eric did not respond to these at all.
Linda, who was wearing sunglasses, raised her eyebrows slightly, and a mischievous smile appeared on the corner of her mouth again.
Eric tried the notepad, memo, calendar and other functions on this tablet, and then he raised his head and asked the salesperson, "What material is the screen of this machine made of?"
"What?" The salesperson was stunned.
"I mean, what material is the touch screen of this machine, stn or tft?"
The salesperson understood now, but failed to answer, and noticed the smile on the corner of Linda's mouth next to her. Even more embarrassing, said: "This, I don't know."
Eric asked again: "What type of battery is that?"
The salesman is clear about this, saying: "It uses the latest lithium-ion battery developed by Sony. The capacity is more than twice that of the mainstream nickel-metal hydride battery."
"Oh," Eric nodded, and continued to ask: "What is the storage capacity, and what type of memory chip is used?"
The salesperson was speechless again. Dazed for a moment, he felt that Eric must be making things difficult for him on purpose, and he said angrily, "Sir, I'm just a salesperson, not an engineer, please don't make trouble here, please?"
Before Eric opened his mouth, Linda was reluctant and said, "Hey, you come to be a salesperson without knowing anything, and you still have this attitude. Be careful that I will complain to you."
The salesperson put on a look like a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, and said: "Madam, please don't dangle your fake Prada in front of me, please, my girlfriend also has a similar handbag, and it's from a genuine store. I bought it, your model is fake at first glance, I even suspect that the two of you may be liars, if you continue to make trouble, I will call security."
The bag in Linda's hand is an internal limited edition, which is very different from the styles sold in large quantities in specialty stores. At this time, I didn't expect to be faked by someone, and I was speechless for a while. I turned my head to look at Eric, showing a look that I can't help you.
You can't bring Lafayette to appraise it.
Eric shrugged slightly. He was too lazy to do anything, and was about to pull Linda away when a middle-aged white man wearing glasses walked by and asked the salesperson, "Jack, what happened here?"
"They..." The salesman named Jack immediately began to complain in a low voice.
The middle-aged man waved him away after listening, and turned his head to say something to Eric and the two. Seeing Eric's appearance, his eyes narrowed involuntarily, and he took a closer look, but he was still not sure, but he subconsciously did not dare to neglect, and said, "Sir, I am Rhett Jackman, the manager of this store, you May I be called Rhett, and may I serve you?"
"Okay," Eric smiled, approached the counter again, picked up the Newton tablet and asked the question just now.
Rhett Jackman was not as ignorant as the salesperson just now, and replied with a smile: "This tablet uses the latest TFT LCD screen, 1m memory, 4m storage space, and uses Toshiba's flash memory chip."
"Do you have any other electronic products here that use flash memory technology?"
"Of course, mobile phones, digital cameras, computers and other products here all use this technology."
Eric asked again: "What is the maximum storage capacity of this chip?"
Rhett Jackman thought for a while, and said: "The largest capacity should be the CF memory card developed by SanDisk. This is a product launched by SanDisk last year. It is mainly used in digital cameras. The maximum capacity is 16m. Sir, If you're interested, I can take you to see it."
16m, and can only hold four mp3 songs at most, Eric was disappointed, but he still planned to take a look, so he said: "Let's take a look, and in addition, prepare five pieces of this tablet for me, wait for me take away."
Linda wondered: "Eric, why are you buying so much?"
Eric smiled and said, "Give it away."
Linda was still puzzled, but Rhett Jackman raised his eyebrows slightly. He keenly noticed that the couple in front of him looked like a lady and a groom, but they were not. The guess in his heart It also became more and more certain.
Instructing the salesperson at the counter to help Eric prepare things, Rhett Jackman patiently led Eric towards the digital camera area with an unchanged smile.
Beside another counter, Rhett Jackman handed a memory card the size of a postage stamp to Eric, and said, "Sir, this is a CF card with 16m storage capacity, and it can store up to 100 photos. I need to demonstrate it with a digital camera. for a while?"
Eric looked at the card and shook his head: "No, it looks too big, and the capacity is too small."
Rhett Jackman was not angry at all, and said with a smile: "Sir, this is already the limit of the current technology. Five years ago when the flash memory chip first appeared, the storage space was only 1m, and now only the hard disk can achieve a larger storage space. "
"Oh," Eric's tone rose, and he suddenly remembered, and asked, "Then, is there a hard drive with the same size as this CF card?"
"I've never seen this before," Rhett Jackman shook his head, and said, "The smallest hard drive is the 1.8-inch hard drive developed by Toshiba, which is used in their portable handheld computers."
"Do you have this kind of computer here?"
"Yes, please come with me," Rhett Jackman said, and brought Eric to the Toshiba product counter, took out a Toshiba handheld computer and handed it to Eric, and introduced: "This is Toshiba Libretto20 handheld computer, 6.1-inch tft screen, 8m memory, 270m storage space, internal use is a 1.8-inch small hard drive."
Eric saw Cindy's walkman in the morning, and immediately thought of an mp3 player. Now the patent of the mp3 audio format is in the hands of Yahoo. Because of Yahoo's open licensing policy, it has become the most widely used audio format , not only is widely used on the Internet, but also has been applied to some CD music discs.
When discussing Yahoo's future development strategy with Chris last weekend, the two discussed the possibility of Yahoo's involvement in hardware products. At this time, Eric realized that an mp3 player would be a perfect fit.
If he can hold the complete patented technology related to the mp3 player in his hands in advance, Eric can use the Yahoo platform to build an online music store, and then firmly grasp the entire music sales industry chain from the Internet to the terminal. Copyright laws are very strict, and people generally have the habit of paying for music, which means that Yahoo's involvement in online music stores will have great potential. If Yahoo's music store can be made into a completely monopolized sales platform, the profits will definitely not be less than hardware sales.
Moreover, the mp3 player can be integrated into Nokia mobile phones in advance, which is another development idea.
Thinking about these things in his heart, Eric briefly tried the Toshiba handheld computer that looked like a mini notebook, but he didn't know what the hard disk inside looked like, so he subconsciously said, "Can you take it apart and have a look?"
Rhett Jackman hesitated a little when he heard Eric's words, but quickly said: "Of course, sir, but there are no tools here. Go to my office?"
After Eric finished asking, he wanted to shake his head. This kind of request seemed too much. Hearing Rhett Jackman's answer, Eric suddenly realized with a smile, "Did you recognize me?"
Rhett Jackman smiled and said, "If you don't ask this question, I'm really not 100% sure, Mr. Williams." (To be continued.)
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