xtaran, 3 months ago

@thomasfuchs: One of the reason's why I like @mntmn's #MNTReform: Its design has something of a vintage #Thinkpad brick. Same counts for the MNT Pocket Reform: Feels like the true successor of the first #EeePC #netbook, especially those with the fat 3rd-party batteries.

debacle, 3 months ago

@xtaran @thomasfuchs @mntmn

Disadvantage is weight. So far, I never moved my #MNTReform away from my desk at home.

xtaran, 3 months ago

@debacle: Well, IIRC my Thinkpad 760XD (from the mid 90s, similar to what is in @thomasfuchs 's picture) isn't really that much lighter.

Cc @mntmn

debacle, 3 months ago

@xtaran @thomasfuchs @mntmn

True. My daily driver is #X220​/​#X220i, which is much younger (2011).

xtaran, 3 months ago

@debacle @thomasfuchs: This is my 12.1" (4:3, 1024×768) #Thinkpad 760XD with a Pentium 1 with 166 MHz and 48 MB of RAM. It's famous for its keyboard automatically raising on the back side for a comfortable typing angle when opening the lid: https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:760XD

(I also have a Thinkpad 760ED which looks the same, but even has less RAM, CPU frequenz, disk and screen resolution: https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:760ED)

Cc @mntmn #retrocomputing #debian #debian8

An open Thinkpad 760 from the side, showing the (automatically) raised keyboard.
An open Thinkpad 760 from the side, showing the lowered keyboard as it usually is when closing the lid.
The very clean and modular innards of a Thinkpad 760 which you see when you unlock and lift the inner lid (which contains the laptop's keyboard on top): CD-ROM drive with black and turqoise label, Li-Ion battery with yellow label, disk with black and red label.

thomasfuchs, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

@xtaran @debacle @mntmn i just wish the keyboards were better in these

nazokiyoubinbou, 3 months ago

@xtaran @debacle @thomasfuchs @mntmn That is the most modular looking classic laptop I have ever seen. I guess sometimes when you paid extra for the likes of IBM they actually delivered.

xtaran, 3 months ago

@nazokiyoubinbou @debacle @thomasfuchs @mntmn: According to Thinkwiki, the 700 series were the high-end models back then.

nazokiyoubinbou, 3 months ago

@xtaran @debacle @thomasfuchs @mntmn I can believe it. Presuming it has sufficient cooling, that is the most optimized layout I've seen in any laptop of such an era and I only really know of one today that approaches it.

mntmn, 3 months ago

@nazokiyoubinbou @xtaran @debacle @thomasfuchs please untag me from the thread ^^ thanks

nazokiyoubinbou, 3 months ago

@mntmn @xtaran @debacle @thomasfuchs Untagged, but FWIW you can always just mute a conversation if you want no more notifications from it.