@joeress You were looking for a decent recent laptop, and while I'm not a fan of HP, my ZBook Firefly 14 G10 ticks all the boxes you were mentioning in the show.

The Firefly has a matte display, good resolution that doesn't need scaling, upgradeable NVME and RAM (up to 64GB). Everything works out of the box- even the fingerprint reader. The machine is made of metal, the trackpad is glass. It IS an Intel (13th gen) and not AMD as you had mentioned.

I personally enjoy my Lenovos, but I did recently sell my last ThinkPad T480 and use this more, as it's newer and a little faster (and was free, so there's that).

I also have an hp Dragonfly G4- slower spec'd same gen processor, and a glossy touchscreen. It's a more square aspect ratio (3:2) but it's really not much smaller than this Firefly, and they are more expensive and you can't upgrade the RAM.

NASA has nine days

#artemis2 #nasa

Every time I pull my pizza from this.

**cue ODST theme**

#halo #masterchief #haloodst

Everyone talks about identifying AI and I was taught early on that it should be easy to identify by the purple suits they wear.

#purplesuit #virtuosity

I miss this computer. An Acer Veriton FP2. I upgraded a customer to her new PC at the time and she gave me this as e-waste. This was years and years ago. This was one of the best #BeOS machines I had, as prebuilt machines go. I remember it had an AGP slot and I think a PCI slot. A nice cable management cover along the side. It used normal sized drives and a laptop DVD or swappable with a floppy drive and a ZIP iirc.

All of the bits were standard, which was great. Even the built in display had a cable routed to the motherboard port so if you added an AGP GPU, you’d just swap the cable. The keyboard had media keys and just worked- it didn’t need drivers or anything.

The ONLY proprietary things on the machine were the mount on the display to the PC and the latching system used to lock the drives in. They were hot swappable and the windows side had software to lock/unlock it. I was writing software for BeOS to be able to use this feature (it seemed to be just a serial signal) but the motherboard died before I could finish it. Bad capacitors and I didn’t have the means of fixing it at the time. I moved from mATX to a full ATX Tyan board so I didn’t swap this board out.

A real all-in-one that had a standards-first approach.

#retrocomputing

It’s so soothing.

#homeassistant #homeassistantvoicepreview