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When I visited Japan I couldn't help repeating over and over to myself that it's a country with one foot firmly in the future and another foot stuck firmly in t

by 0xCMP 6y ago

When I visited Japan I couldn't help repeating over and over to myself that it's a country with one foot firmly in the future and another foot stuck firmly in the past. It's one of the most fascinating things I love about Japan. [edit: typo]

benmw333 6y ago
What struck me was the seemingly 1995 era laptops people were working on in the trains.
- yaktubi 6y ago
  I like 1995 era laptops more than modern ones. I also like the the plastic casings of desktops back then—they feel solid, same with the mechanical keyboards! Today companies so busy trying to “slim things down.” P.S. why doesn’t apple release a matte display laptop? I would buy it.
  - stx 6y ago
    I had one of the last models of matte display apple released. I eventually gave it up for the retina resolution.
  - asdff 6y ago
    Apple used to release matte display laptops. You used to be able to get a hulking 17 inch macbook pro with an optional matte display. Today, you can buy a $15 matte film.
  - dungdang 6y ago
    because the reason matte is matte, is that it scatters light hitting the screen. from either side of the screen. you didn't notice how blurry your screen was when it was already blurry from the low resolution. now screens have high resolution. feel free to put a matte transparency on your high density screen to make it a low density screen. everyone else would rather have glare.
- SenHeng 6y ago
  This is what benmw333 is referring to. The Panasonic Let's. Despite how bulky it looks, it weighs about the same as the macbook air. It's basically used by anyone who isn't a manager, designer or software developer. You see them everywhere. https://biz.panasonic.com/jp-ja/products-services/letsnote/lineup/sv9-2020summer https://biz.panasonic.com/jp-ja/products-services/letsnote/l...
  - claudeganon 6y ago
    I think this design is actually pretty cool. Wonder if it has Linux support.
    - ethanwillis 6y ago
      Apparently it does. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Panasonic_CF-SV9 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Panasonic_CF-SV9
      - deleted 6y ago
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    - takeda 6y ago
      I owned CF-R7 decade ago, and running Linux was very enjoyable. No drivers were needed and almost everything worked. The only thing that Linux lacked at the time was ability to turn on-off economy mode (at the time never seen that in laptops, it was to keep charge at 80% to extend battery life). I needed to boot to windows to switch that. And functional/multimedia keys although I was able to find software to get that to work. I would imagine the support would be better now.
  - rsync 6y ago
    Wow - look at this picture: https://content.biz.panasonic.com/jp-ja/fai/15800/raw https://content.biz.panasonic.com/jp-ja/fai/15800/raw This is not from a wayback machine copy of dynamism.com - this is a new, Windows 10 laptop in 2020 (!)

by 0xCMP 6y ago

benmw333 6y ago

What struck me was the seemingly 1995 era laptops people were working on in the trains.

yaktubi 6y ago
I like 1995 era laptops more than modern ones. I also like the the plastic casings of desktops back then—they feel solid, same with the mechanical keyboards! Today companies so busy trying to “slim things down.” P.S. why doesn’t apple release a matte display laptop? I would buy it.
- stx 6y ago
  I had one of the last models of matte display apple released. I eventually gave it up for the retina resolution.
- asdff 6y ago
  Apple used to release matte display laptops. You used to be able to get a hulking 17 inch macbook pro with an optional matte display. Today, you can buy a $15 matte film.
- dungdang 6y ago
  because the reason matte is matte, is that it scatters light hitting the screen. from either side of the screen. you didn't notice how blurry your screen was when it was already blurry from the low resolution. now screens have high resolution. feel free to put a matte transparency on your high density screen to make it a low density screen. everyone else would rather have glare.
SenHeng 6y ago
This is what benmw333 is referring to. The Panasonic Let's. Despite how bulky it looks, it weighs about the same as the macbook air. It's basically used by anyone who isn't a manager, designer or software developer. You see them everywhere. https://biz.panasonic.com/jp-ja/products-services/letsnote/lineup/sv9-2020summer https://biz.panasonic.com/jp-ja/products-services/letsnote/l...
- claudeganon 6y ago
  I think this design is actually pretty cool. Wonder if it has Linux support.
  - ethanwillis 6y ago
    Apparently it does. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Panasonic_CF-SV9 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Panasonic_CF-SV9
    - deleted 6y ago
      [deleted]
  - takeda 6y ago
    I owned CF-R7 decade ago, and running Linux was very enjoyable. No drivers were needed and almost everything worked. The only thing that Linux lacked at the time was ability to turn on-off economy mode (at the time never seen that in laptops, it was to keep charge at 80% to extend battery life). I needed to boot to windows to switch that. And functional/multimedia keys although I was able to find software to get that to work. I would imagine the support would be better now.
- rsync 6y ago
  Wow - look at this picture: https://content.biz.panasonic.com/jp-ja/fai/15800/raw https://content.biz.panasonic.com/jp-ja/fai/15800/raw This is not from a wayback machine copy of dynamism.com - this is a new, Windows 10 laptop in 2020 (!)