nixCraft 🐧20h ago
the IBM ThinkPad 235, a cult classic subnotebook released in late 90s. IBM engineering made incredibly compact machines like this one, which was exclusive to the Japanese market. There was time when IBM and many consumer products were made with industrial design teams and user replaceable parts. Sadly that era is gone now. Anyway, i am sharing this for nostalgic reasons.
Show threadnixCraft 🐧20h ago
the worst part is lenovo trying to copy Apple without understanding why people brought those thinkpads.
Show threadWiredfire
@nixCraft always loved me a sub-notebook. The netbook era was peak personal computing ^_^
Jun 24 at 4:21pmWeb
Show threadNazo17h ago

@wiredfire @nixCraft It really was! Though for me the best I ever had was a 2-in-1 "Transformer" by Asus. So light and thin. Sure it ran on an Intel Atom, but IMO people who think they need a Core i9 running at 10GHz or an AMD 48 core server CPU and a gaming GPU in a """laptop""" just completely lost the point of what a laptop even is.

They also lost their wallets. It costs 2x, even 3x as much to have such hardware compared to desktop equivalents and they're always worse no matter how hard they try due to hardware constrictions... (So you spend far more to get less...)

Show threadAravinth Manivannan16h ago
@nazokiyoubinbou @wiredfire @nixCraft my dad is still nursing an Intel Atom Samsung netbook. He just got a battery replacement for it too, so it doesn't seem like it's going away soon
Show threadNazo16h ago

@realaravinth @wiredfire @nixCraft Sadly my 2-in-1 just suddenly quit one day. It started randomly locking up, then one day wouldn't boot anymore.   

The one downside of this type of thing is it is quite a lot less repairable. I wouldn't even know where to begin. Probably some tiny SMD capacitor died or something.