A laptop that came with Windows 11 Home installed but is somehow ridiculously under powered. Intel Celeron with two cores, 4MB ram, super slow disk module. It came with a bluetooth headset/headphones and a wireless mouse. This was on clearance for £45 including shipping.

I've bought it on a whim just to see how usable it is. I may try a selection of operating systems out on it for lolls.

What should I use it for ?

#cheap #laptop #windows11compatible #geobook

Dug out this late-90s-vintage Brother GeoBook from my work archive, after reading https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/06/o-brother-geobook-lets-get-thou-back-on.html?lr=1

We (at STNC) wrote the IP stack and web browser libraries (maybe email too?).

There's only the tiniest bit, if any, of my code on this - I did a few weeks on it when I started at STNC but then switched to the Psion Series 5 web browser.

#Brother #GeoBook #STNC #retrocomputing #Geoworks #GEOS

O Brother GeoBook, Let's Get Thou back on the Internet?

Last weekend was sad , so let's do something fun. I've mentioned I collect non-x86 laptops and portables (and not just PowerBooks: see my pr...