this 1980s laptop was ahead of its time #shorts

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[RuanHuysen]

Back when things were engineered to last, not be replaced. Good days.

[__spyguy__]

“Secondary display for notifications”
Looks a lot like a certain Apple product…

[ranja]

That physical brightness slider is just gorgeous

[edkhil]

"5 thermal paste tubes tall"

American measurement system in a nutshell

[KakiT]

That feeling when an old ass laptop is more advanced in terms of user ability to upgrade/make changes to hardware than 99% of laptops today

[twobitsnick]

It has a Pentium sticker right on it, which firmly places that laptop in the 90s.

[SuperFoxdemon]

Back when companies wanted you to keep their products for more than a year

[SupTm]

This is the level of beefiness I want in my laptops

[Elementening]

"Over 5 thermal paste tubes tall" 💀

[Phunker]

Had that very laptop. What you didn't show is the crazy docking station it came with. And it's from 1996.

[-Jozef]

Imperial:I’m the best
Metric:I’m the best!
Thermal paste: hold my beer

[beefboi]

I remember getting my hands on a Dell that worked like this. It's fascinating, and fun!

[OriginalJoesef]

the fact that the laptop has a better keyboard than my mechanical blue switch keyboard

[BavarianM]

80s computer
Procedes to show a computer from the 90s

[Darkerfoxtech]

The Compaq 5280 was released in 1996 according to Wikipedia. I believe it due to the color screen and 3.5 floppy.

[dimitrijepuja]

"How tall are you bro?"
-"216 thermal pastes bro"

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[HP_ENVY_]

“Hold up guys lemme get my 1980 laptop so we play cool math games”

[KittyUZutty]

“From the 80s”
The Intel Pentium 1 sticker:

[maximcoppieters]

Back then expansion bays were very common. Floppy drives, cdrom drives, zip drives and extra batteries were common

[adityaspaudel]

Modern laptops:" thats my grandpaa 🥺🥺"