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Re:DOS Days – Laptop Displays by RajT88 on Thursday November 20, 2025 @12:45PM (#45995380)
I loved my old Toshiba Tecra 780-DVD back in the day. I bought it used as laptop prices were falling, and got a lot of kit with it. A web cam (unheard of for its generation), DVD drive and hardware decoding (also very baller), and a docking station where I could chunk in PCI and ISA cards and full size desktop drives (I put in a DVD burner and a large desktop HDD - I forget the size, but probably tens of gigabytes).

I told my wife that in today's dollars, the whole kit would have cost about $11k. It's hard to sink that kind of money into a laptop with OEM accessories today even if you tried hard.

Re:DOS Days – Laptop Displays by brk on Thursday November 20, 2025 @01:17PM (#45995793)
>It's hard to sink that kind of money into a laptop with OEM accessories today even if you tried hard.

Apple has entered the chat.

A fully specced current-gen MBP gets to about $7,500. Not $11k, but still a pretty expensive device to tote around.

Re:DOS Days – Laptop Displays by RajT88 on Thursday November 20, 2025 @01:37PM (#45996020)
I'm sure they will get there.