The Mothership - 2013-11-29
well in the early 90s I sure thought things like this were cool. I'm guessing they all broke because the mechanism was too complex?
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Binro the Heretic - 2013-11-29
These things work excellently when they're prototypes lovingly hand-built by tech-heads in a comfortable well equipped workshop.
When they're being slapped together by fifteen-year-olds working for pennies an hour in sweatshop conditions, flaws tend to creep into the process.
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glasseye - 2013-11-29
A friend of mine had one of these, it was seriously cool.
The main reason they don't exist anymore is that laptops grew larger. This laptop was < 10" wide, and at the time people were more adamant about having large keyboards.
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Old_Zircon - 2013-11-30 That first generation of HP convertible laptop/tablets from around 2002/3, before they screwed up the hinge design and then phased them out, is my favorite. I forget the model. They were comparable to an iPad 1, spec wise, except they were actually, you know, useful.
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Old_Zircon - 2013-11-30 TC1100.
So last generation of the design, but first generation to be sold as HP instead of Compaq and to actually work well.
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