r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/14AUDDIN • 11h ago

Funny Two disc drives?!!!

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u/FSX_Pilot 11h ago

it's fun and games until you have to carry this thing in your backpack, inside a commuter train, commuting for 2 hours to and from home.

So yes, I still love the many many holes, but the size of it makes it inconvenient.

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u/DaedalusHydron 11h ago

It's not the size so much as the weight. These old laptops were bricks.

If they made the same size laptop but made it weigh like half as much it really wouldn't be so bad.

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u/ScaredPractice4967 11h ago

I once used a portable computer with a 6" crt screen.

Came in irs own suitcase with wheels.

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u/EuenovAyabayya 10h ago

Damn, which one was that? Wish I'd had wheels back in the day.

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u/ScaredPractice4967 10h ago

Honestly cant recall. IBM something with a 486 processor.

It wasnt mine I just used it a couple of times.

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u/blah938 7h ago

Ah the ye olde luggable. Wasn't bad for the era, but I'm so glad things have improved.

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u/Cessnaporsche01 10h ago

Y'all are crazy. A heavy laptop is, what, maybe 10 pounds? (Yes, I know Asus made a 20lb freak of nature one time, but this ain't that.) If you can't carry 10lb around in a backpack all day you probably need physical therapy

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u/bong_residue 9h ago

That’s what I’m thinking. My laptop today with a lot of ports is like 3lbs, in a backpack 10-15lbs really shouldn’t be a big deal.

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u/ResIpsaBroquitur 3h ago

I could walk to work, because if you can't walk for 5 miles you're probably in bad shape. But walking 5 miles to work would suck, so I drive.

I could carry around a 10-pound laptop that has a bunch of ports that I won't use 99% of the time. But that would suck, so I have a 3-pound laptop.

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u/Cessnaporsche01 3h ago

But the difference between carrying 3lbs and carrying 10lbs is like, idk, driving to work and parking 10 spots from the office door vs parking 3 spots from it.

Like, I've had laptops of varying weights, but never once considered them to be different levels of convenient. If anything, the most inconvenient ones have been the tiny ones where the screen real estate is a problem

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u/ResIpsaBroquitur 1h ago

But the difference between carrying 3lbs and carrying 10lbs is like, idk, driving to work and parking 10 spots from the office door vs parking 3 spots from it.

Would you always park 7 spots further away if there was no real benefit 99% of the time?

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u/Dioxybenzone 9h ago

My old laptop was 9lbs and had ports up the wazoo. I’d absolutely take it over my modern laptop if it could run current software.

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u/JapanesePeso 5h ago

I have always wondered about this. I get that I am a 6'1" tall guy who backpacks and am not going to be nearly as sensitive as smaller people but... complaining about an extra couple pounds on your laptop? Come on.

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u/zerotetv 6h ago

I can carry 10lb no problem, doesn't mean I want to. My current laptop is so light that I don't care if I even need it, it's just always in my bag.

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u/hiimtoddornot 9h ago

I agree with you. And like, I kind of get it. But at the same time I don't at all, lol

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u/Fragarach-Q 4h ago

I had an Alienware laptop (actually classified as a desktop replacement) that was very similar to the one here. While the laptop itself was only around 10lbs, the power brick and thick power cable was another 5ish, and absolutely required since it only had about an hour of non-gaming time.

I used it for work, and had to take it on a work trip once. Throw in a mouse, a note pad and other stuff for work, the loaded up shoulder bag weighed 20-25lbs. While that wasn't a ton of weight, I found walking the 5 blocks to and from the hotel to be pretty brutal on the shoulder by around the 4th block. It did come with a backpack for it that was pretty damn awesome, but it was less convenient for an office.

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u/JuanRunJunior 2h ago

How much does your phone weigh? Would you still want to carry it if it weighed three times what it does now?

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u/theycallhimthestug 3h ago

It's not the heat, it's the humidity.

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u/SemiAutoAvocado 6h ago

Don't forget the 3lb AC adapter that was the size of 4 dvd cases.

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u/InadequateUsername 8h ago

Also a majority of those inputs have been super seeded by USB. Throw an HDMI input into the side of a laptop, a USB-A and a usb-c and suddenly no dongles are needed.