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Original question by @phantomwise@lemmy.ml
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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I never owned one, but the KOHJINSHA DZ series was one of the most striking laptops I’d ever seen.
It wasn’t a touchscreen, but it could switch into a tablet-style mode, and it had dual 10.1-inch displays, which was pretty crazy at the time.
For me? Panasonic Thoughbook CF30. I had one. Quite an impressive thing at the time. And sturdy as fuck - I carried mine through the jungle, for more than 100.000km around the world. It had a fucking hard drive and lcd heater for colder environments and mobile broadband.
And you literally couldn’t destroy it. Mine wasn’t outpaced or destroyed, it took Air France and Paris CDG to kill it -they stole it.
I’m going to use this as an opportunity to reminisce about an insane laptop of the past: I once had a thinkpad W700ds. I chose this because work was paying for it, and I wanted a powerful machine and a 17 screen. This was a no compromises “mobile workstation.” I knew it wasn’t going to be light or slim, but my attitude was, what, am I afraid of getting a little extra exercise carrying it around?
But I really wasn’t imagining quite what I got. It weighed almost 11 pounds (maybe more, because I think I added an extra drive). And it was big. Extra thick. I had to search really hard to find a backpack that would actually fit it, and what I ended up having to get was actually targeted at DJ’s. It was a beast.
And the icing on the cake was the extra slide out screen. I knew this was gimmicky, and didn’t actually want it, but the model without it was out of stock. It slid out of the cover on the side, so as to be next to the main monitor, but it was kind of crappy. The resolution wasn’t as good and it was dimmer, so it just didn’t look right. It was kind of embarrassing and contributed to the cover having to be just that much thicker.
Even the power brick was huge.
Yeah, one of those I didn’t really think things through moments. It was a great conversation starter though, if you didn’t mind admitting to being a dork.
I’m using a MacBook Pro 15” from 2011, and that’s pretty insane. I replaced the optical drive with an SSD and put 16GB of RAM in it, but it’s still going strong!
The IBM Thinkpads with butterfly keyboard.
Or the Psion Series 5, but that’s technically a palmtop.
