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Re:Thin yet Repairable Devices: HP Proves They Exist by flukus on Thursday June 27, 2019 @12:29AM (#20291762)
I'd take a lot of extra thickness. I had a cleanout of old tech recently and found an 10" HP laptop I hadn't used for a few years and fighting the nostalgia to get rid of that one was hard. It was such a solid, thick and chunky little thing that I could put through hell and would just keep on working. It was just perfect for it's job of mostly coding during commute time. I don't feel remotely the same way about the thinner, faster dell I replaced it with.
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Re:Thin yet Repairable Devices: HP Proves They Exist by scottlocklin on Thursday June 27, 2019 @06:55AM (#20293305)
Wrote my thesis on an Omnibook 800 (with 16 megs of ram, lol) running twm. Miss the form factor, the ruggedness and the amazeballs integrated mouse. Still can't understand why people haven't copied the mouse design. Then again, I still can't understand why manufacturers are incapable of producing a nice keyboard like the Omnibook 800 had.

http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=233

HP of today ... it's just a brand. The engineers that designed sturdy and usable stuff like the Omnibook 800 have been all put out to pasture or went to Agilent.

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Re:Thin yet Repairable Devices: HP Proves They Exist by brokenmachine on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:36AM (#20302003)
What's the amazeballs integrated mouse?
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Re:Thin yet Repairable Devices: HP Proves They Exist by scottlocklin on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:12AM (#20304443)
Look at the photo I linked. You press a button and this mouse on gimbals shoots out the right hand side. It's amazing; best laptop mouse ever. Or, look at this helpful vidya:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B-cGzmuKYM

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Re:Thin yet Repairable Devices: HP Proves They Exist by brokenmachine on Monday July 01, 2019 @01:23AM (#20322653)
So it's just a pop-out mouse attached to the side? Is there anything else special about it? Can you pull it away from the side of the laptop? It looks hard to use attached like that.

I was hoping to be amazeballed, but unless there's more to it, so far I'm not amazeballed.

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