As I said, lower end as far as power goes and such (Celeron) and
it came with just a 64 Gig SSD, but I added 1/4 Terrabyte to that
for $26, and the computer is Military grade so you can drop it or
dump water on it without hurting it, so it seemed a good buy.

I always wondered what people would think if you walked into a coffee
shop and sat down with a Panasonic Toughbook with an external antenna...

I have an older Thinkpad that requires a wireless dongle in order to
connect. Not an external antenna, but something large enough -- with
flashing little lights in its semi translucent case -- that might make some people wonder. ;)


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Re: Re: Framework laptop
By: Dumas Walker to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Tue Nov 25 2025 11:12 am

flashing little lights in its semi translucent case -- that might make some people wonder. ;)

I still want to do the coffee shop thing with an SX-64. I don't have a Kaypro or Osborne, unfortunately.

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Dumas Walker wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-

I have an older Thinkpad that requires a wireless dongle in order to connect. Not an external antenna, but something large enough -- with flashing little lights in its semi translucent case -- that might make some people wonder. ;)

yeah, a sticker-bombed 4:3 thinkpad with an external wireless adapter
running Linux got some interesting looks 10 years ago in a all-Mac
coffee shop in a posh downtown area.



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Re: Re: Framework laptop
By: Nightfox to Denn on Thu Nov 27 2025 09:28 am

How early? I built a computer for someone in 2017 and added a PCI Express wifi card, and it had an antenna. Also I built a new computer for myself in 2019 and the motherboard has wifi built-in, and it has a couple of antennas.

I remember inheriting some old Orinoco gear in 2004 or so -- a 802.11b AP with no ethernet ports, a handful of Orinoco "silver" cards, which only did 56 bit WEP, or maybe WPA...

One of the cool things I got was a PCI card with a PCMCIA slot - the slot stuck out the back of the card, so the antenna of a wireless card stuck outside of the case.

I remember being excited about 11 mbps. How far we've come...

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On 12 Nov 2025, Rob Mccart said the following...

looks a little more robust than anything else I've seen other than
the true military laptops you see in use by military and police swat
teams on TV shows.

yeah, our local ambulance company uses these kinds of laptops when they are taking patients to the hopital for information gathering. Pretty nice looking machines.

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looks a little more robust than anything else I've seen other than
the true military laptops you see in use by military and police swat
teams on TV shows.

yeah, our local ambulance company uses these kinds of laptops when

>they are taking patients to the hopital for information gathering.
>Pretty nice looking machines.

Yes, mine isn't nearly as fancy but I figure anything to make it a
little more sturdy than average is a good thing. It doesn't look
too bad but it obviously wasn't designed to be slim and beautiful.

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Yes, mine isn't nearly as fancy but I figure anything to make it a
little more sturdy than average is a good thing. It doesn't look
too bad but it obviously wasn't designed to be slim and beautiful.

As long as it works.
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