What was the first laptop you ever owned?
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@nixCraft Dell Inspiron 15, it was a good laptop but the top part separated because the hinges had become too tight
@nixCraft Thompson MO5
@nixCraft Some Gateway laptop from around 03-04.
@nixCraft Asus eeepc. Ran Xubuntu like a champ
@nixCraft not owned but it was a ‘luggable’ Commodore SX-64
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An iBook G4 white. £700+ UK.
The first thing I did was install a firmware hack that was doing the rounds to allow the inbuilt (but factory disabled) dual screen output in order to use modul8 vj software. It worked perfectly for years.
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@nixCraft Acer Aspire One
@nixCraft macbook 2012
@nixCraft it was an ASUS eeePC 1000H, I’ll never forget them
@nixCraft "Victor" brand, 80186 CPU and Swedish dos 5.0 and monochrome vga.
@nixCraft refurbished thinkpad t470
@nixCraft PowerBook G3, 1998
@nixCraft Acer Aspire 2001 WLCI. Glorious first generation Centrino platform. I still remember the detailed model number, so it must have left a mark.
@nixCraft Big sister’s Conectar Igualdad Exo machine from Cristina Kirchner government
@nixCraft powerbook 5300. it was really a pleasure to use. the digital equivalent of a premium chair, desk, and stationery.
@nixCraft wasn’t so much a laptop as they didn’t come along until later but it was a kaypro II luggable computer running MS DOS
@nixCraft Circa 2000 I guess, it was a Debian laptop, and everything worked!
Ok, except suspend, the PCMCIA port, the integrated modem, the Wifi, the webcam and the Synaptics two-finger gestures.
@nixCraft does access to my mother's HP Compac count? WoW 3 was my jam! Can't remember the model though.. Only remember how much the off-center track pad used to drive me crazy XD
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Dell XPS12 from 2006
@nixCraft are you trying to guess my password or what? 🤣
@nixCraft if windows or apple nobody owned a laptop
they were the product of those spyware producers
@nixCraft an eeepc for my birthday as a kid. It saw many things before finally kicking the bucket
@nixCraft Toshiba Libretto 50CT (though unlike the one in the photo, mine ran Red Hat linux).
Thinkpad x230 😎🐐
@nixCraft Dell Inspiron 14" in 2005
@nixCraft some acer aspire 3 with 8gb of ram with an i3-6006u and a small ssd with a 1tb hdd and this slightly higher res the 720p screens.
Surprisingly solid for the specs and i gotta put something else on it since win11 isnt supported on it and probably even if it were, probably not such a good time
@nixCraft Toshiba T1950CT
