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Particularly I miss low-spec, high quality items. I want a good laptop for writing, it has to be only powerful enough to run emacs and a browser. but it has to

by sasaf5 7y ago

Particularly I miss low-spec, high quality items. I want a good laptop for writing, it has to be only powerful enough to run emacs and a browser. but it has to survive being trashed around and the battery must be available 10 years from now for replacement. Good luck finding that kind of product...

bitwize 7y ago
They're called "used ThinkPads".
- sasaf5 7y ago
  Yes, that's the closest I could find.
  - nextos 7y ago
    New Thinkpad E series is decent. Unlike previous ones, it has true Thinkpad construction and price is very reasonable, especially with some discount. Battery is not glued, and most components are serviceable.
malloryerik 7y ago
I'm very skeptical, but there's supposedly emacs for Chromebooks: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForChromeBooks https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForChromeBooks
- atr_gz 7y ago
  I think at this point new Chromebooks can all run Linux software natively - so might as well just use normal emacs. Actually I have emacs running on Android as well. I don't really use it often - but it works fine. Maybe if I bought a little Bluetooth keyboard I would play around with it more.
z3phyr 7y ago
8 megs and swapping
- sasaf5 7y ago
  hahaha, *constantly swapping. it's either this or another editor that has 2 modes: beeping like crazy, ruining everything.
- chihuahua 7y ago
  That phrase only makes sense in the context of a time when 8MB of RAM was considered a lot.
xkeyloggerscore 7y ago
I would never have used a computer connected to the internet, ever, for anything personal, such as writing. All my writing and personal-things -machines go offline, permanently, before I'd write anything, and they stay offline forever.