Dex

Big hearted fluffdragon...

...fictional ex-90s platformer mascot, nerd, plural, ΘΔ.



cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

thing I think about once in a while: this is a conversion tablet with a wacom digitizer and multitouch screen that you can get on ebay for $70 OBO. they made gobs of machines throughout the 2000s and 2010s that are dogshit for performance by modern specs, but if you could draw a picture on em in 2009, you probably still can; plus, it's like a cintiq, you get a built in screen. meanwhile i see artists struggling because their $400 tablet died and they can't afford another one. these things are just rotting on ebay. someone should start a clearinghouse


cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

i was trying to figure out why i had this thing open in a tab for a week. turns out it's because of this screenshot that i couldn't puzzle out. finally looked it up and learned that HP shipped bumptop, an absurd 3d desktop that google bought and buried, to regular consumers. what


clip
@clip

god i miss bumptop, i genuinely used that shit back in the day. it wasn't good.


Dex
@Dex

huh

i have been trying to remember the name of a few specific 3D interfaces for a while and I wonder if this was one of them

(the reason I don't remember the names is because I used most of them for roughly 5 minutes before going back to a standard desktop)


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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

"creates a Piles". What are they even doing here? Is Piles™️ their newly invented and trademarked invention of a desktop metaphor? How many Piles™️ can I get you? Oh, just one Piles™️, thank you very much.

looks this up on Wikipedia "Extensive use of physics effects like bumping and tossing is applied to documents when they interact, for a more realistic experience."

Okay this is exactly the kind of absurdly inspired shit I live for

I had one of these, the digitizer was very good, the out of box performance not so much. The wave designs looked great, it was a "top half aluminum" sort of design that was always cool under your wrists, since it wasn't doubling the metal parts up as heatsinks. The round battery on the underside gave it a good tilt on a desk and also a good grip in tablet mode.

Can't say I ever used bumptop though. I probably removed it quickly or ignored it the whole time...