"I don't know what to buy, let's see where I go," Eric touched Linda Ivan Golinsta's hair, which had been deliberately messed up, and asked the driver in the front seat, "Is there a Best Buy around here?"

Carter Moen has recently taken a break, and the driver is another bodyguard in Eric's security team, who happens to be a New Yorker, and suddenly saw Eric, whose image has changed drastically, and even wondered if the boss was dropped, but when he heard him speak, he was sure and said, "Fifth Avenue is there, next to Bryant Park." ”

"Just go there," Eric nodded, instructing the driver to drive.

Best Buy, the largest electronics retail chain in the United States, remembered the Walkman that Eric had fiddled with at breakfast, and knew it had something to do with it.

It was past work hours, the roads weren't congested, and it took less than ten minutes for the sedan to get from the Upper East Side to the outside of the Best Buy chain near Bryant Park.

Eric got out of the car with Linda, and there was no parking nearby, so he asked the driver to drive away.

It was a working day and it was work time, and there were not too many pedestrians on Fifth Avenue, but after the car left, the two people standing on the side of the road still attracted the attention of some pedestrians. It's not that Eric and Linda are recognized, Linda's exquisite makeup skills make Eric himself not very recognizable, and the main reason for being noticed is that the contrast between the two people's images is really a bit big.

Eric's hair was messy at this time, and his originally handsome face had been modified by Linda to look green and mediocre, and he was originally twenty-five years old. It looks more like he's in his early twenties at this point. Because I don't have any clothes to change today. The light gray shirt on his body was slightly wrinkled, and he looked like a raunchy college student.

On the other hand, Linda next to her, her hair is tied into a bun, with big sunglasses, and her flaming red lips, which looks glamorous. A knee-length black dress huggs her slender body, and she holds a Prada bag in her hand and a decorative fur shoulder on her shoulder. Add a bit of aristocratic temperament. What's more, this woman is still stepping on the sky-high feet, she is already in the same figure as Eric, and at this time, she completely sets off Eric like a bag boy in height and temperament.

Noticing the envious and slightly disdainful gazes of the passers-by around him when they looked at him, and at the little appearance of the woman next to him who had succeeded in her mischief, Eric smiled, "Are you very proud now?"

Linda thought Eric was angry, so she quickly grabbed his arm affectionately and said with a smile: "Ah, I want to wear the same makeup as you, but people don't look like it." ”

Eric didn't believe her. But I don't feel much in my heart, two lives. Standing in his current position, the opinion of outsiders will no longer have any impact on him.

Letting Linda fall on top of him, Eric pushed open the glass door of Best Buy and walked towards the store, the hall was full of large household appliances, glanced at the distribution of goods, walked in with Linda, and said, "You know, our current situation is very much in line with a certain atmosphere in the European court era. ”

Linda, like Eric, ignored the gazes of those around her and asked, "What?"

"At that time, it was very popular for European ladies to keep more talented young people as lovers, and those young people also liked to eat this kind of soft rice. ”

Linda laughed, "I haven't heard of it, you must be making it up, hehe." ”

"Of course, it's not a nonsense, many historical celebrities have eaten this kind of soft rice. ”

Still not convinced, Linda asked, "Who is there anywhere?"

Eric thought for a moment and said, "Rousseau." ”

Linda nodded, "I'd love to hear about it." ”

"Balzac. ”

Linda's little face under her sunglasses showed a look of surprise: "Wow, really?"

Eric nodded: "And Tchaikovsky." ”

Linda's mouth opened slightly, her face was incredulous, and after a while, she seemed to suddenly 'enter the play', and waved the Prada bag in her hand arrogantly: "Little Ike, whatever you want, I'll buy it for you." ”

“……”

Linda seemed a little excited, forgetting to lower her voice, and the few customers and waiters in the store had already noticed their very mismatched pair of men and women, and when they heard this, they threw a wave of contempt at Eric.

Passing through the major appliance area, Eric happened to see Apple's brand counter, so he led Linda over.

After a cursory glance, Eric wasn't much interested in the 'retro'-looking Macintosh and PowerBook, and the laptop he uses regularly now has been turned into an IBM Thinkpad. Without Jobs, the exterior design of Apple products can really only be described as bad.

However, it was a small tablet-like object that caught Eric's attention.

Signaling the salesperson in front of him, who peeked at Linda from time to time to see that he was obviously very unpleasant, took the tablet out of the counter, Eric roughly played with it, and saw the 'Newton' logo on it, and then remembered that this should be Apple's early Newton tablet.

The salesperson watched Eric clumsily fiddle with the tablet in his hand, and even scratched it with his fingers, with undisguised disdain in his eyes, and was even more angry at the fact that this guy in front of him caught a big beauty like Linda. Deliberately watched Eric scratch his finger on the screen in vain for a moment before handing over the stylus and introducing in a stiff tone, "Sir, this tablet needs a stylus." ”

"Oh, I forgot that," Eric muttered, picking up the stylus, this time writing and drawing smoothly.

"This is Apple's latest Newton MP110 series, with advanced handwriting recognition capabilities, which is very suitable for high-end business people, and the price is $799," the salesperson deliberately bit at the $799 price point, for most ordinary people, $799 is definitely not cheap, compared to the simple features of this tablet, it can even be described as a luxury, however, what disappointed him. Eric didn't react to any of this at all.

Linda, who was wearing sunglasses, raised her eyebrows slightly. The corners of his mouth showed a mischievous smile again.

Eric tried out the tablet's notepad, memos, calendar, and other features. Then he looked up and asked the salesman, "What is the material of this machine screen?"

"What?" the salesman froze.

"I mean, what is the material of the touch screen of this machine, STN or TFT?"

The salesman understood, but he couldn't answer, noticing the smile on the corner of Linda's mouth next to him, he was even more sneering, and said, "I don't know about this." ”

Eric asked, "What type of battery is that?"

The salesperson knows this. "It uses Sony's latest lithium-ion battery, which has more than twice the capacity of mainstream nickel-metal hydride batteries. ”

"Oh," Eric nodded, continuing to ask, "What is the storage capacity, and what type of memory chip is used?"

The salesman was speechless again, stunned, he felt that Eric must be deliberately making things difficult for himself, and said angrily, "Sir, I'm just a salesperson. You're not an engineer, so please don't make a fuss here, okay?"

Eric hadn't spoken yet. Linda was reluctant at first, and said, "Hey, I don't know anything and still come to be a salesperson, and I still have this attitude, be careful that I complain to you." ”

The salesman put on a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water, and said: "This lady, please don't use your fake Prada to dangle in front of me, okay, my girlfriend also has a similar handbag, bought in a genuine store, your one is fake at first glance, I even suspect that you two are likely to be liars, if you continue to make trouble, I will call the security guard." ”

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, but at this time, she didn't expect to be faked, and she was speechless for a while, and turned her head to look at Eric, revealing a look that I can't help you.

Eric shrugged his shoulders slightly, he was too lazy to do much, and was about to pull Linda away, when a middle-aged white man with glasses walked too fast and asked the salesperson, "Jack, what's going on here?"

"They ......," the salesman named Jack immediately began to complain in a low voice.

After hearing this, the middle-aged man waved his hand to let him leave, turned his head and was about to say something to Eric and the two, when he saw Eric's appearance, his eyes couldn't help narrowing, and after a few careful looks, he was still not sure, but he instinctively didn't dare to slack off, and said: "Sir, I'm the manager of this store, Rhett Jackman, you can call me Rick, can I serve you?"

"Yes," Eric smiled, approached the counter again, picked up the Newton tablet and asked the question.

Ritter Jackman was not as ignorant as the salesman just now, and replied with a smile: "This tablet computer uses the latest TFT LCD screen, 1M memory, 4M storage space, and uses Toshiba's flash memory chip. ”

"Do you have any other electronics here that use flash technology?"

"Of course, mobile phones, digital cameras, computers and other products here all use this technology. ”

Eric asked, "And what is the maximum storage capacity of this chip?"

Ritter Jackman thought for a moment and said, "If you have the largest capacity, it should be the CF memory card developed by SanDisk, which is a product launched by SanDisk last year, mainly used for digital cameras, with a maximum capacity of 16M, sir, if you are interested, I can take you to see it." ”

16M, at most it can only hold four MP3 songs, Eric was disappointed, but he still planned to take a look, so he said: "Then take a look, in addition, prepare five of these tablets for me, and wait for me to take them away." ”

Linda wondered, "Eric, why are you buying so much?"

Eric smiled and said, "Give it away." ”

Linda was still confused, but Rhett Jackman frowned slightly, he keenly noticed that the pair of men and women in front of him, although they looked like noblewomen and grooms, were actually not, and the speculation in his mind became more and more certain.

Instructing the salesperson at the counter to help Eric prepare something, Ritter Jackman patiently led Eric towards the digital camera section with a constant smile.

At another counter, Ritter Jackman handed Eric a stamp-sized memory card and said, "Sir, this is a CF card, 16M storage, can store up to 100 photos, do you need me to demonstrate it with a digital camera?"

Eric twisted the card and looked at it, shaking his head: "No, it's too big, the capacity is too small." ”

Ritter Jackman was not angry at all, and said with a smile: "Sir, this is already the current technological limit, five years ago, when flash memory chips first appeared, the storage space was only 1M, and the larger storage space is now only possible with hard disks." ”

"Oh," Eric said in a slightly upturned tone, suddenly remembering, and asked, "So, is there a hard drive the same size as this CF card?"

"I've never seen that," Ritter Jackman said, shaking his head, "The smallest hard drive right now is a 1.8-inch hard drive developed by Toshiba for use on their portable PDAs." ”

"Do you have this kind of computer here?"

"Yes, please come with me," Ritter Jackman said, taking Eric to the Toshiba product counter, taking out a Toshiba handheld computer and sending it to Eric, introducing: "This is Toshiba's Libretto20 handheld computer, 6.1-inch TFT screen, 8M memory, 270M storage space, and the internal use is a 1.8-inch small hard disk. ”

When Eric saw Cindy's Walkman in the morning, he quickly thought of the MP3 player, and now the MP3 audio format patent is in the hands of Yahoo, because of Yahoo's open licensing policy, it has become the most widely used audio format, not only widely used on the Internet, but also has been applied to some CD music discs.

When they discussed Yahoo's future strategy with Chris last weekend, the two discussed the possibility of Yahoo getting involved in hardware products, and at this point, Eric realized that an MP3 player was the perfect fit.

If you can pinch the complete patented technology involving MP3 players in advance in your hands, Eric can use the Yahoo platform to build an online music store, and then firmly grasp the entire music sales industry chain from the network to the terminal, North America's music copyright regulations are very strict, and people generally have the habit of paying for music, which means that Yahoo's involvement in the online music store will have a great future, if Yahoo's music store can be made into a completely monopolistic sales platform, the profit is definitely no less than hardware sales.

Moreover, MP3 players can be integrated into Nokia mobile phones in advance, which is another development idea.

Thinking about these things in his heart, Eric simply tried the Toshiba handheld computer that looked like a mini notebook, but he didn't know what the hard disk inside looked like, and subconsciously said, "Can you take it apart and take a look?"

Ritter Jackman hesitated a little when he heard Eric's words, but quickly said, "Of course, sir, but there are no tools here, can you go to my office?"

Eric wanted to shake his head after asking, this kind of request seemed too much, and when he heard Ritter Jackman's answer, Eric suddenly smiled and said, "You recognize me?"

Ritter Jackman smiled and said, "I'm not 100 percent sure if you don't ask, Mr. Williams." (To be continued.) )