I grew sick and tired of how loud computers had been getting, ever since CDROMs and CPU fans, faster HDDs and fan-requiring Graphics Acceleration.
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I grew sick and tired of how loud computers had been getting, ever since CDROMs and CPU fans, faster HDDs and fan-requiring Graphics Acceleration.
See also:
Whoops, I broke my HP 200LX.. I’ll have to get it repaired before I can re-open this project.
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Portable computing, Quiet computing > Oldschool >
(on Wikipedia)
(home page, archive)
An early-1990s
A portable computer.
Clamshell, Full QWERTY-keyboard with a keypad and macro keys, authentic Intel 8086 hardware, true DOS, a task-switching application, and a number of GUI applications and productivity software. It is truly a portable computer.
Abandoned — HP decided to switch to the Windows CE-supporting palmtops in their Jordana-series of palmtops, even though the 200LX was still a moneymaking operation.
I got this some time ago
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/geforce-gtx-650/ [ 1 ] was https://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-650
An excellent video card, that can manage nearly-ultra settings for World of Warcraft.
Notable because it is very low power: It only uses motherboard power and no additional cable directly from the power supply.
Mine is specifically the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650