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I knew that brand definition was getting harder and harder in the small Laptop market, but SHEESH. It appears that Asus is going through with a rumored feature on it’s new F6V 13 inch notebooks…scent.

Yes, Asus is selling SCENTED laptops, now available from Datavision. Each of the four available colors has a different scent. According the the product page, the “SurfBlue” model is scented “Ocean-like” (I hope not during lowtide), “Vital Green” is scented “Grass-like” (Acapulco Gold?) and “Extreme Black” is scented “Cologne-like” (just what I always wanted, a Brut scented laptop). There is also a pink model, which apparently  is “Musk-scented” (I am not even going to try to comment on that one, but the mind just…boggles). It seems like selling scented laptops lacks a certain amount of gravitas or dignity. To paraphrase Rado and Ragni, “Asus, you have NO face.”

Can there really be a market for scented notebook PCs? Do the scents grow more intense as the CPU works harder? Thinking of it changes my view on the whole “I’m a PC” question…do PCs and Macs smell differently? Why did they choose these scents and not others? It seems to me there must be scents that are more relevant to PCs, I would suggest the following:

• Impending Deadline Sweat scented
• Gamey Gamer scented
• Cool Lime Linux scented
• Nacho LAN Party scented

Any other suggestions? What do YOU want your laptop to smell like?

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).