In which I will muse about the laptops of days present and past. Mostly to try and do this “collecting thoughts in a somewhat coordinated manner”, and to see if this works out to be a post of a length I had in my mind when making this plan or if this will be a three-sentence fluke.
I’ll not talk about the several work laptops I had over the years, those usually were Dell work-horses doing exactly what they were meant to do while running company-administrated Windows installations that usually also were doing what they were meant to, and usually saw use plugged into their respective docking stations anyway. Used on the road, or the rail, or other people’s living rooms, they also… just worked. I’d still not get one for myself, because I adore the tiny-ness of my current device, but more on that later.
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