Notebook List
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Being ill at the moment I have some time for totaly pointless stuff...
Following a short discussion about list of unused notebooks at [1] I decided to
count my own notebooks and laptops:
1. Psion MC200
2. Psion MC400
3. Psion MC600 (German version)
4. Psion MC600 (UK version, slightly damaged screen but otherwise functional)
5. Toshiba Sattelite 110CT
6. IBM T23 (faulty, dead battery)
7. Lenovo X61s (dead ethernet port and some of USBs)
The list does not include my wife's machines:
8. Lenovo X60
9. Asue Eee 901
There is also the IBM P/70 hidde somewhere (it's faulty and not exactly a
"laptop").
The devices from 1. to 4. have a big advantage: they can run on ordinary AA
batteries (8 pieces) thus they don't have problems with dead batteries (they
have 80+ hours battry life with modern AAs). This is a reason why I abandoned
my Toshiba 110CT: being a Pentium 90 MHz device with 24 MB of RAM it is still
fast enough for most of my "mobile" work but the unavailability of battery
makes is useless for use outside the office.
In other hand the 110CT was my main non-SGI computer in 2003-2006. It has a 10"
800x600 screen and it runs Slackware very well (I never upgraded beyond 9.x on
this machine). It's problem is the non-upgradeablem memory (the modules are
propietary and impossible to find) because it's speed wasn't so bad: it it's
time I had a R4600PC 133 MHz processor in my SGI Indy (the cheapest one) which
wasn't much better than the Pentium. So if the problem fitted to the 110CT's
tiny RAM it ran comparably with my main desktop (I later pugraded the Indy to
R4400SC at 175 MHz which is much faster).
I got the T23 for no particular reason (and for a good price) and I used it for
some time in orded to try do not wear off the X61s. It was a good machine
but slow on modern stuff and also somewhat used (it started to fail after some
time and I had problems with matteries: the original was obviously dead but the
replacement was not much better).
References:
http://technomorous.eu/day/2016/11/06
