{"id":130,"date":"2010-06-12T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T19:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/?p=130"},"modified":"2010-06-12T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T19:24:06","slug":"finally-found-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/2010\/06\/12\/finally-found-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, found hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally I found a tablet PC to use in my study. After a lot of searching, and checking out many of those listed on Craig’s List I got an HP\/Compaq TC1100. It’s amazing how many people want real money for real junk.<\/p>\n

It’s a relatively old machine, with a 1GHz PentiumM, a half a gig of ram and a 40GB drive, but a nice 12” screen and a very well working stylus. The seller claimed it was practicaly unused which I didn’t believe at first, but now I do – there’s hardly more than one or two scratches on it, and no damage of any other kind. That’s a big deal, you’d know why if you ever tried to buy a used laptop.<\/p>\n

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I thought it looked familiar, and yes indeed: Prof Plimmer whom I keep mentioning used the same at least once:<\/p>\n

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When assembled as a laptop it looks a little strange, but there’s a reason for that – the screen not only flips like most tablets, but detaches completely from the keyboard, made my girlfriend say it’s like an iPad. I’ll leave that comparison for another day.<\/p>\n

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And it came with a nice carrying case:<\/p>\n

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Interestingly even together with the case it’s smaller than both my HP g60 and my work laptop \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I tried to upgrade the memory in it, and even after finding the slot (it was doubly hidden) I found that the 1G stick I have is too tall, won’t fit in. And the spare 100GB drive I had lying around turned out to be a SATA drive. So I guess I’ll keep my own monster, only use this one for the stufy, and then sell it. That would be too bad, it’s a really nice machine. I’m even willing to believe that the seller paid over 2000$ for it new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally I found a tablet PC to use in my study. After a lot of searching, and checking out many of those listed on Craig’s List I got an HP\/Compaq TC1100. It’s amazing how many people want real money for real junk. It’s a relatively old machine, with a 1GHz PentiumM, a half a gig […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}