• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    80s/90s laptops weren’t too shabby either. Especially the early ones where it was literally a suitcase with a CRT built in and a fold-up keyboard. The definition for “portable” meant “anything that might be possible for one human to move it”.

    In the early 2000s they started making them out of cheese or something I dunno. It was that collective quest for thinness that nobody really asked for. Plastic shells used to be a lot thicker and there was a lot more metal.

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      1 year ago

      I still remember the old Thinkpads having waterholes so they wouldn’t break when you spilled your coffee over them. We’ve devolved since then.