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Welcome to my Technology blog, featuring old laptops, gadgets and the all famous Used ThinkPad Buyers Guide.

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OG Gameboy, retro as all hell. Plastic feels like crap, but what did I expect from a $5 housing replacement.

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Damn, that’s one sexy box for an Operating system.

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Various Pocket computers.

Top Left: UMID mBook m1 (2007) Top Right: IBM Palm Top PC 110 (1995) Bottom Left: SmartQ5 (some Chinese 4.3″ Linux Tablet from 2009) Bottom Right: Sharp PC-1246 Pocket Computer (1984)

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HI, I just bought a Canon NoteJet BN120C used as well. Unfortunately the CMOS battery is missing. Could you please confirm the CR number for the CMOS battery? Is it CR2430 or CR2450 or something else? Your reply will be really really appreciated. Thank you Ronnie JK

I'm using a CR-2330 in mine.

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Update on my collection of the World’s Best Proprietary Software! :P

Still need: Windows 1.0 Windows 2.0 (286 & 386 versions) Windows 3.0 Box (got the install disks, but no box) Windows 8, 8.1 & 10

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Apple: Looks like somebody else is copying us. Lawyer up boys!

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Not that I’m missing it, but the days of No Man’s Land for phones are long over.

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Some quick UMPC concept I made for /g/ a while ago. Done in Sketchup. It’s basically a modern 5.8″ smartphone with a hinged screen.

iPhone 5 for comparison - by gui

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In celebration of Google’s pointless logo redesign, I'm also having a crack at this Flat/Modern Logo Fad.

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ThinkPad going Retro?

Is this a step in the right direction or is it all just smoke and mirrors? David Hill in the Lenovo Blog highlights bullshit like comparing the design to a Porsche 911. Making a great laptop isn’t just making the damn thing look like what it used to. There are a lot of things to improve in the ThinkPad line before I would recommend anybody buying one New over other laptops.

1. Battery durability needs to be drastically improved, lasting 300 cycles isn’t acceptable when competitors use Li-Polymer type batteries that last much longer.

2. Make the keyboard and display bezel out of plastics that don’t crack so easily. This has been a problem with ThinkPads since the T20 came out. Hard Drives are on their way out and needing rubbish internal keyboard and display bezel plastics absorbing damage when it isn’t much of an issue anymore.

3. Empty space inside the machine needs to be filled. With a stronger chassis, battery, whatever. Make the motherboard rectangular, not a weird shape that’s susceptible to flex damage.

4. Screens need to be drastically improved. Use a Panasonic display for Color Accuracy, Sharp for Power Efficiency. None of this Image persistance and defect prone LG and Samsung. These machines cost as much or more than Macs when new, put something in them that makes them worth the asking price.

5. The retro logo redesign is shite.

The Retro Redesign does a lot of things right though, but they involved introducing things that were removed in the first place.

1. The 7 row keyboard coupled with the better switches from the Chiclet design

2. TrackPoint Buttons

3. Clamshell Design (the stuff sticking out on the edge of the display bezel)

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IBM PalmTop PC110 compared to a Nintendo 3DS XL. It’s amazing that IBM made a full on computer that small in 1995.

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Nokia’s Glory Days.

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Like they say, there’s a collector for everything. How cute, Windows 3.1 still thinks it’s new.

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If it ain't broke, don't fix it! ;__;

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Introducing, the All New Revolutionary 4-in-1 1995 Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga?

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Happy 2015! These guys will be turning 20 this year.

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Guts of the $99 HP Stream 7 Windows Tablet.

It's very easy to open, just take off the back cover, then take off 7 screws for the plastic frame and voila!