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  • Alienware no longer carrying Phantom Lapboard

    John Biggs

    Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... → Learn More

    Thursday, December 27th, 2007

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    The ghost of Ponzi schemes past.

    I was doing a bit of research for the NYT on the Phantom Lapboard and I remembered that Alienware was supposed to carry it online. After trying to pry a photo out of Phantom itself, I emailed Alienware to ask if they had a photo. Their reply was fairly curt:

    Alienware does not carry the Phantom lapboard. There were plans a couple months ago, but from what I was told, Phantom couldn’t meet our unit/delivery needs.

    I saw the Lapboard last year and if it had come from Logitech or Belkin or any of the peripheral guys, it would have been a fairly good product. However, given Phantom’s track record of shady dealings, I wonder just what’s going on. Has anyone ordered and received the Lapboard yet?

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