Dusting off two dinosaurs

[cobito]

I have decided to dig out two laptops from the last century, both Compaq: a Dixon Pentium II at 333Mhz and a 486DX4 at 75Mhz.

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[Tecnho]

@cobito very interesting thread and well explained, thanks Cobito

[kynes]

I love these kind of articles. The 90s and 2000s were a very exciting time in computing, and we don't really realize the enormous advances we've experienced.

[Magog]

And I don't know about you, but for me it was when I really wanted a change of motherboard, micro, etc.
I also suppose it's because of my youth...
Best regards.

[whoololon]

@kynes From there, laptops lost something very important: maintenance bays.
Now to clean the heatsink you have to disassemble the whole thing.

[kynes]

@whoololon said in Dusting off two dinosaurs:

@kynes From then on, laptops lost something very important: the maintenance bays.
Now to clean the heatsink you have to disassemble the whole thing.

That's why whenever I've had to buy or recommend a laptop, I first check that they are easy to open, and that you don't have to disassemble the keyboard to access the heatsink. Once I had to clean a netbook that you had to have two engineering degrees to be able to get your hands on, one to disassemble it and another to reassemble it.

[krampak]

@kynes If only it was just cleaning the heatsink... when I see that I have to disassemble the entire laptop (starting with the keyboard) to change a disk, I get really annoyed...

[amd125]

Lovely thread, I loved seeing two vintage laptops come back to life.