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Chill Callahan
Nov 14, 2012

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Beve Stuscemi
Jun 6, 2001




I;m the two different styles of keys

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
big beautiful computer

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

The Management posted:

big beautiful computer

oh that's what BBC means when I see it on porn sites

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
wth this thing apparently has two power supplies

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
Why does it use two power supplies?

The team responsible for that pointed to a few technical reasons. Essentially, it amounts to the same reason that we chose to use fans rather than an external water-cooling solution. You could have a giant power supply that you'd see on a gaming desktop, but it's not something that you want sitting out with an open fan. We think that an internal solution is much more efficient.

The other benefit of doing this is that you can run the device with only one power supply plugged in. It'll just use one of the GPUs, but you can still play games and do everything normally. If you want to game in 4K or VR or whatever it is you're doing, you just plug in that second power supply to get the power of SLI.

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
What type of Cherry MX switch does the keyboard use?

MX Browns. People have very strong personal preferences in this area, and we don't want to anger anyone by using overly clicky keys.

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.
they already had a design for one power supply and didn't want to contract out for a power electronics engineer again

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1wzQNzttSk

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake

i'm the equilateral triangle

Instant Grat
Jul 31, 2009

Just add
NERD RAAAAAAGE
im throwing up in my mouth a little

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

crush my thighs and melt my balls /smythe

MancXVI
Feb 14, 2002

that thing is ugly as hell but it would have been cool to have during the war

Rawrl
Mar 30, 2010


bigger computer

DONT THREAD ON ME
Oct 1, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Floss Finder

i want a lappy with a short boot and a loooooooooong keyboard

Asshole Masonanie
Oct 27, 2009

by vyelkin

crap nerd
May 24, 2008
did they take design cues from the bbc micro and zx spectrum or something?

crap nerd
May 24, 2008

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z71h9XZbAWY

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytMgyrZm87A&hd=1

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

we're going to need a bigger computer

Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008


hey bart! remember luggables? they're back, in poo poo form!

burning swine
May 26, 2004



Rawrl posted:



bigger computer

one of these actually came through when I was working IT helpdesk in ~2006





we punished the owner for tricking the university into paying for this with some wacky zany icons



phone cameras were bad back then
just like they still are now

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010



Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

crap nerd posted:

did they take design cues from the bbc micro and zx spectrum or something?
i was thinking apple ii myself

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

man a iic+ with a fold down lcd and a battery pack would have been the fukkin best in like 1989. rock some appleworks on the train, hmmm yeah grrl you like that mail merge??

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003


I wonder if they ever sold one of those

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

lol it had a 5200rpm hard drive in it.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010


lol you need a computer running OS/2 just to turn it on, that's great

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

and it emits a massive amount of interference that fucks with everything around it, i love this stupid thing

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

lol you need a computer running OS/2 just to turn it on, that's great
a very special version of os/2

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

i want a lappy with a short boot and a loooooooooong keyboard

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

and it emits a massive amount of interference that fucks with everything around it, i love this stupid thing

the current model of that is marketed as the mainframe for the app economy

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

i want a lappy with a short boot and a loooooooooong keyboard

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Oct 21, 2008


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maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

It's funny


cuz it's bigger than a regular computer

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