you can't tell either of these things from the picture but the absolutely colossal scale of this laptop and the specific copy of linux that was in the optical drive when it arrived are a match made in hell
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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:
what the fuck i just noticed the 4 trackpad buttons. Why
how? i’m clearly only seeing four buttons there (the physical buttons under the trackpad not the printed labels on it)
oh sorry i thought you meant the labels, which are backlit softkeys. there's just two ordinary buttons, there's a ridge down the middle is all
So, if you lay your human finger down on the trackpad like some kind of idiot that has gotten the notion of displacing the cursor, what happens? Do you have to aim for the 15% of that postage stamp that isn't covered with 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝒻𝑒𝒶𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝒾𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓈!!, and start swiping around from there? Do most trackpad engagements turn into "well shit, it opened Mail instead so now I gotta deal with that before I can click the button that I was hoping to accomplish today".
the keyboard layout!!! unbelievable! the windows key is in the top row! WHY.
in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:
"designed for windows xp (windows vista capable)"
i mean i'd believe one of those things is true
those hand rests look like those silicone grease infused "nonstick" pans
The Toshiba Qosimo was truly the Nissan Maxima of laptops and I will not elaborate on this point.
...is that a laptop with a built-in capture device!?
what even is that anyways!?
shipping a laptop the size of a fast food tray with a little eighty-some-odd compact keyboard is really a move
I can't believe they put in not-totally-shrunk arrow keys and padded out a bunch of blank panel for that, and then mutilated the rest of it. Why did they have to cut the left off so hard? What the fuck is the Windows key doing over there?? Who wants Del down there? Who gives a flying fuck about insert just put some meaningful booster keys in a sane place
wait, that's right, didn't notice that...
why did you do this osmio, this could totally fit either a ten-key-less or whatever the name for a keyboard without the dedicated "home/arrow/prt" section is.
in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:
damn you found that fast
or
damn you waited a long time to tease this and followed through pretty quick
it has been perhaps a week since i was made aware that this thing existed and it arrived on friday
damn you found that fast
upon closer inspection: of course it's a fucking toshiba, wow it's a toshiba and still in one piece. Truly a barn find.
the HDMI-in laptop upon which xbox was played... you really are a hero for getting this working
Nah, look at how blurry the screen is compared to the rest of the photo... That ain't HDMI.
ah. damn youre right, im too used to hdmi just being The Thing now that ive grown lazy
this damned thing looks like it came grotty from the factory truly companies really do have no idea what they're doing. i love this stupid thing
This computer is not me this time. I am not this computer.
why is the windows key up there----wait WHY IS THE TILDE KEY DOWN THERE?!?! oh no
