Thin yet Repairable Devices: HP Proves They Exist

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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