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Re:World’s top bicycle maker is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan... by sasaf5 on Monday June 17, 2019 @08:51PM (#20208847)
Particularly I miss low-spec, high quality items. I want a good laptop for writing, it has to be only powerful enough to run emacs and a browser. but it has to survive being trashed around and the battery must be available 10 years from now for replacement. Good luck finding that kind of product...
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Re:World’s top bicycle maker is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan... by bitwize on Monday June 17, 2019 @08:57PM (#20208881)
They're called "used ThinkPads".
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Re:World’s top bicycle maker is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan... by sasaf5 on Monday June 17, 2019 @09:00PM (#20208901)
Yes, that's the closest I could find.
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Re:World’s top bicycle maker is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan... by nextos on Monday June 17, 2019 @09:09PM (#20208955)
New Thinkpad E series is decent. Unlike previous ones, it has true Thinkpad construction and price is very reasonable, especially with some discount.

Battery is not glued, and most components are serviceable.

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Re:World’s top bicycle maker is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan... by malloryerik on Monday June 17, 2019 @08:57PM (#20208883)
I'm very skeptical, but there's supposedly emacs for Chromebooks: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForChromeBooks
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Re:World’s top bicycle maker is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan... by atr_gz on Monday June 17, 2019 @10:19PM (#20209266)
I think at this point new Chromebooks can all run Linux software natively - so might as well just use normal emacs.

Actually I have emacs running on Android as well. I don't really use it often - but it works fine. Maybe if I bought a little Bluetooth keyboard I would play around with it more.

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Re:World’s top bicycle maker is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan... by xkeyloggerscore on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @06:54AM (#20211576)
I would never have used a computer connected to the internet, ever, for anything personal, such as writing.

All my writing and personal-things -machines go offline, permanently, before I'd write anything, and they stay offline forever.

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Re:World’s top bicycle maker is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan... by z3phyr on Monday June 17, 2019 @09:04PM (#20208922)
8 megs and swapping
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Re:World’s top bicycle maker is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan... by sasaf5 on Monday June 17, 2019 @09:17PM (#20208990)
hahaha, *constantly swapping. it's either this or another editor that has 2 modes: beeping like crazy, ruining everything.
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Re:World’s top bicycle maker is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan... by chihuahua on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @12:06AM (#20209700)
That phrase only makes sense in the context of a time when 8MB of RAM was considered a lot.
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