retrocomputing

I actually considered getting one of these back when they were new.

Holy shit, I've repaired a couple of these. Somehow, both were personally owned by different professors, who each opted to have the repairs done in their respective buildings on the same university campus. These were only a couple months apart, maybe less.

I don't even remember the parts I swapped, or if they were particularly easy or hard to work on inside. I seem to recall one of the Alienware gaming laptops with the removable GPUs I found surprisingly easy by comparison, but that doesn't mean anything in an era where HP and Dell were both turning out SFF and not-so-SFF desktops that would have both the weirdest accomodations AND gotchas when it came to repairing them.

EDIT: Thinking it was the Optical Drive, in both of them.

He wasn't kidding when he said the remote was the best part, I was digging the whole thing until then but it blew me away as much as it did him. Was one of the best retro computer vids I've seen in some time, I loved everything about it

@quordle this laptop with superior quality and features compared to other laptops they have used before

Great video. Haven't finished it yet, but did he ever explain why you'd want your media center to be luggable? I feel like if they'd ditched the screen and keyboard they would have something better than a modern streaming box except in 2006, but maybe they sold something like that too.