Sinclair had, it seems, a design tradition that oddly mirrors Apple's. Lots of brilliant prototypes, and I hope the Delete book, which is where I first saw this, hasn't exhausted the treasure trove.
TheOtherHobbes 2 hours ago [-]
Mostly Rick Dickinson, who was a superb industrial designer.
rtmkrptn 6 hours ago [-]
My grandpa kept Soviet copy of ZX Spectrum called Leningrad 1. You can read more about this thing here.
Looking at that chassis I'd like to retrofit a touchpad with 3 buttons on new standard laptops.
bitwize 11 hours ago [-]
I love it. I mean laptops are billed as the tool for "productivity on the go", but this thing just screams "sod all that, I want to play some JetPac on the go".
Happy SPECtober everybody!
jrmg 1 hours ago [-]
Happy SPECtober!
I was going to ask how we got three quarters of the way through SPECtober without me noticing, but I guess you just invented it?
I love (‘love’?…), though, that when I searched for it, Google confidently told me all about it, and suggested some ways to celebrate and games to play, despite the fact that your comment was the only actual search result! It’s like it agrees it should be a thing.
I get that this is a hack rather than an actual product but I'd have expected something more in line with 6 days of continuous gameplay with 4 AAA batteries.
criddell 2 hours ago [-]
I keep hoping somebody makes a product similar to the TRS-80 Model 100 - a slab laptop that ran for 20 hours on 4 AA batteries. With 40 years of technology improvements, I'd hope that a similar machine could run for months or even years on those same batteries.
numpad0 5 hours ago [-]
No LED torches the size of LCD backlight last 6 days. More like up to 8 hours.
Marazan 6 hours ago [-]
This thing has a 14 inch LED screen never mind the actual computer part. How much energy do you think they can hide in a AAA battery?
avadodin 5 hours ago [-]
The Gameboy lasted 30h. With all the improved processes and powering off the modern peripherals when not in use, I think the computer part should draw very little current during operation. The screen may require some compromises.
peterfirefly 4 hours ago [-]
Tiny display + a lot of them didn't have a backlight. This laptop has a big display.
Marazan 4 hours ago [-]
1. The Gameboy was powered using AA batteries not AAA which have about triple the capacity.
2. The Gameboy screen was LCD not LED, with no backlight, and had a 2.5 inch diagonal compared to this laptop's 14 inch diagonal.
3. Also if you read the article you will see a technical limitation was that the screen had to be run at full brightness
nottorp 6 hours ago [-]
Umm the next draws like 3 watts without a display. Which is still 3x less than the original zx spectrum.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cassettefuturism/comments/1tnsb2u/s...
https://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=zesarux
.. incidentally, the Open Pandora runs a ton of great stuff:
https://repo.openpandora.org
https://zxbyte.org/leningrad.htm (it's in Russian but I hope you have an auto translator in a browser)
Great post overall!
Looking at that chassis I'd like to retrofit a touchpad with 3 buttons on new standard laptops.
Happy SPECtober everybody!
I was going to ask how we got three quarters of the way through SPECtober without me noticing, but I guess you just invented it?
I love (‘love’?…), though, that when I searched for it, Google confidently told me all about it, and suggested some ways to celebrate and games to play, despite the fact that your comment was the only actual search result! It’s like it agrees it should be a thing.
https://postimg.cc/VSRMCLPF
I get that this is a hack rather than an actual product but I'd have expected something more in line with 6 days of continuous gameplay with 4 AAA batteries.
2. The Gameboy screen was LCD not LED, with no backlight, and had a 2.5 inch diagonal compared to this laptop's 14 inch diagonal.
3. Also if you read the article you will see a technical limitation was that the screen had to be run at full brightness