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What are your favorite insane laptops?
Mine is the Dell Rugged: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F56ION4_n0
Bump and fall proof, liquid proof, sand proof (and cat hairs proof I assume), extreme heat/cold proof, can be used as a blunt weapon in an emergency. Ridiculously overkill for anyone that’s not a geologist working in Antarctica or an archaeologist in the Gobi desert, and ridiculously overkill is fun
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the design is insane, the people behind it are insane, the story is double-insane.
Wait. Is that windows AND android ?
yes. yes it is.
Whaaat? I can’t believe someone thought this was a good idea 😂
Fun fact: „Fön“ translates to hairdryer in German.
Who’s going to start the YouTube channel for it called “Kennit?” where you see just what you can use it to do? First episode should be as an oar.
That’s needs to happen! I also want to see if it can be used effectively as a tennis racket.
I got a couple I really like, though for vastly different reasons:
- The MNT Reform series takes the crown for their commitment towards open source software AND open source hardware.
- The ASUS Zenbook DUO is an early entry in the direction of what I perceive as peak design. This technology will only improve from here and I hope other vendors will take cues from this one.
Could you elaborate on the reform? I hear the hype yet to me it looks like a severely overpriced tv box with some low-grade peripherials strapped to it in the least space efficient way possible. Did they got rockchip to release sources instead of blobs or something? What is the praise actually for?
I’ve sketched out ideas for something like the MNT Reform, but with a Framework motherboard, and it’s surprisingly hard to whittle down the form factor any more without sacrificing unique and useful features, like the user-replaceable battery cells and modular mechanical keyboard. Those were the main attractions for me, and it is indeed very weak hardware for the price. Tallying up the component prices, it’s about as good as it gets without economies of scale while insisting on libre firmware.
Could you elaborate on the reform?
For some reason, I was under the impression that laptops in the MNT Reform series were the only laptops that were manufactured using open (source) hardware only. Or, if there were others, that it must have been doing something so special that they deserved to be put on a pedestal. But, currently, I don’t feel confident enough to state why it would be superior over say the Olimex TERES-I or Pinebook Pro.
I hear the hype yet to me it looks like a severely overpriced tv box with some low-grade peripherials strapped to it in the least space efficient way possible.
We definitely pay a premium, but I don’t know exactly why. Especially when the aforementioned Olimex TERES-I and Pinebook Pro are almost an order of magnitude cheaper.
Did they got rockchip to release sources instead of blobs or something?
From what I understood, Rockchip offers (at least some of) its SoCs as open source hardware. So, what MNT Reform did for the SoC is order them as open source hardware and include/publicize/provide all the schematics (etc).
What is the praise actually for?
FWIW, the open source hardware aspect is what I was intrigued by*.
Those things aren’t as rugged as they imply. Go for a brief jaunt and skip a little while swinging it by the handle. It’ll turn into a laptop shaped projectile and leave a dent in both the ground and your wallet.
The laptop with a full sized mechanical keyboard on it. Oh and dual 330w power bricks.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/407225/acer-predator-21-x-review.html
Wait a laptop with full mechanical keyboard and CURVED SCREEN? 😮
TWO floppy readers? 😮
My father had an Osborne 1. Loved it, played so many hours of Space Invaders on it. :)
This bad boy can take two 5.25"s at same time.
Same
Reminds me of SOL, a solar powered rugged laptop running Ubuntu. I think they are on that for the past 10 years or something.
I won’t lie that’s pretty cool!
I actually used OPs Dell as a paramedic. It wasn’t bad but I still prefer toughbooks
Where’s your trackball my dude
ThinkPad W701DS. Depending on configuration it has an intergrated Wacom digitiser w/ pen, a built-in Pantone colorimeter, two RAIDed hard drives and of course the glorious second screen that pops out.
The w700ds/w701ds (“Dual Screen”)
… was not Lenovo’s last try at putting two screens on a laptop; see also the X1 Fold and Yoga 9i
Those things aren’t nearly as cool, though (IMO)
I was laughing my ass off at the “two 250GB hard drives” until I saw that the video was 16 years old 😮
yea and then you install windows on it
95 obviously, for the vibes
Getac made some pretty cool ones.
The newer ones don’t have the weird gel keyboard, they’re pretty sweet.
This was recently featured on Linus Tech Tips: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Ruggedized-trifold-computer-offers-three-18_1600635369600.html
Wow, that looks like something I’d drag to LAN parties in the late 90s.
I am on my third Rugged. Two lemons, third one is fine. Beware, these have hardware issues and get the extended warranty.
Panasonic Toughbook CF-XZ6
I’ve got a CF-25 here. I keep meaning to find the power supply and seeing if it still works :)
