Well the t3100 was a 286. But still this looks cool.
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After hundreds of hours of attempts I managed to get FreeDOS 0.4b to boot up successfully off a 720kb floppy. I tried a ridiculous number of DOSes (including 3.2 that it originally shipped with) and other OSes and THAT version of FreeDOS is the only one that would load for some reason.
Anyways, all that to say I used that laptop for years with a kermit lite client to act as a serial console to some of my ccmp machines (Sparc Station 20 etc). Worked beautifully and gorgeously as that (640x400 orange gas plasma display) .
If you are a fan of old systems and want a nice serial terminal get a t3x00. They arent that expensive and they have a wonderful keyboard and beautiful screens :)
It is a good form factor. Fits in my work shirt pocket.
I do industrial IT and a metal working factory and it has survived that environment with any complaints for a year now.
It can be a bit of a curse. LED headlights and taillights give me headaches. A lot of LED street lighting and business lighting hurts me. Etc.
I used to be basically unable to stand a CRT under ~85hz. :(
This was a 33mhz 040 with 128mb of ram and NS3.3 and OS4.2.
They are flipping cool tbh. I wish more was done with the idea. Balanced ternary is beautiful.
Brown also gets facts wrong in his books. Which is irritating.
The point is that a properly designed UI will adjust to the resolution in use. And this doesnt just mean monitor resolution when running full screen. This also pertains to /floating windows/. Which often are the equivalent of 800x600 resolution.
A lot of modern UIs are full of bullshit white space that takes up tremendous amount of screen estate for no damn reason.
You can have a high DPI screen and a UX/UI that comfortably scales information density and widget sizes.
That one commenter mentioned running the old word on a modern 4K monitor and of course that wont be great for a lot of people /if it's not scaling at all/ (i try to run everything native but my vision is great).
Tl,dr: white space is abused and wasting screen space in modern UIs. High density is wasted on extreme scaling. Modern UIs and UXs are "optimized" for fat fingered geriatrics with tremors (touch) or blind geriatrics (desktop) at the expense of information density. Also, apparently users are too dumb to understand denser UX according to some engineers.
It routinely hits 37-40C here during the summer /and/ 80%+ humidity.
A week ago it was ambient temp 39C with a Heat Index of 45C.
I hadn't thought about the Apple Silicon being a pro in that environment but now I'm tempted to get one lol.
I do know a ton of people who live out of a laptop tho. I can sorta see the appeal depending but the lack of display real estate and how low the screen is and all is just a nonstarter for me for any long duration work.
And plugging up to a dock or what passes for a dock these days and external monitors and keyboards etc is a flaky annoying PITA.
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Lemme tell ya: the dual 66 was NOT a quick computer lol. Maybe earlier than R5 BeOS was on it but by R5 it was a dog. The dual 133 faired better.
The biggest issue was that the 603 wasn't an SMP capable chip on its own. The GLU chipset could either run one 603 + L2 cache or both 603s with only L1 cache. Coherence was done in software.
I usually ran mine with just one cpu active, sadly.
Wish I still had it...
I hate random reddit news
But like my wife has had a bottle of a beer she loves in the fridge door For pushing 6 months now untouched. We have a bottle of cider we both love from gatlinburg that’s been in there for over a month, opened.
I’ll routinely have a bottle of gin take me several years to finish. Sit in the freezer for 2-3 years as I randomly put a dash in a tea.
This all or nothing mindset is bs. If an individual has problems with addiction and self control then definitely do the all or nothing.
Otherwise? Leave well enough alone.
Sustaining that speed is something they have issues with.
Whatever floats your boat, but I find the interior of tesla's incredible bland and boring. Stale "futuristic" BS that's devoid of any personality.
"SSD and GPU" is a freaking bizarre thing to tout. You mean it has an entertainment system with a full computer with enough grunt to light gaming on. Yippy.
This is dogshit... how?
Always upvote Dark City mentioning :)
The human eye can resolve way, way past 220PPI. Even at distance.
I'm sitting here typing on a surface book with a 13" panel that is 267PPI and I would adore it to be double that. I run at native resolution with no scaling.
For the "average" human eye (20/20 vision) it's something like ~338ppi at 25cm right? If you have better vision (my corrected vision is 20/10 which is near the theoretical max for a human (20/8 I think is the max~?).
It's aggravating that people are like "over 300PPI is the max so screw improving". It's literally just the "max" at being able to discern the spacing between pixels accurately. Higher PPIs/DPIs still lead to an increase in objective clarity and crispness as you are able to improve aliasing etc.
Some of my old devices had PPIs in excess of 520PPI and I absolutely adored it (Note Edge). I would kill for a desktop monitor with similar PPI.
SO yeah, I guess "diminishing returns" is a thing but I wish it was at least a readily available option. I would adore a 27-30" monitor that was ~500ppi.. sighs
But.. yeah. Live and learn I guess. It still bothers me that they moderate it like that.
It’s pretty damn disappointing. Guess I shouldn’t have been surprised tho.
The original fat PS2 including majority of the PS1 hardware physically in the machine. More and more of it got offloaded to pure software emulation with later model revisions.
I, too, would like to see info on this supposed "spare die space on the USB controller" claim. Because it would be really neat if true lol