I had a ThinkPad 380ED I think. I remember it had a 3GB hard drive, and I'm pretty sure it had both a floppy disk drive and a CD drive -- in a laptop! 166MHz C

I had a ThinkPad 380ED I think. I remember it had a 3GB hard drive, and I'm pretty sure it had both a floppy disk drive and a CD drive -- in a laptop! 166MHz CPU, probably 16MB RAM or something hilarious like that. And it was just this delightful black block, no curves, no ridges or go faster stripes, it was just this smooth black cuboid. It always felt like it was rugged enough to survive a natural disaster, and yet it had this sublime keyboard and a nice screen for the time. I loved that laptop very much. I miss Windows 98 actually, sure it was bad, but the way it looked and felt was just terrific. No nonsense, and yet it had character. It's like someone was saying yesterday about Windows 2000 being the peak, I think they're right. It was robust and simple, it was easy on the eyes, and it wasn't heavy on resources, it was just a decent Windows OS. XP and 7 are both hailed as good Windows OSs too, but I found myself changing both to look like Windows 2000, always switching off all the themes etc. Sure wish Windows 10/11 still had classic theme (yes, I know you can download a third-party app to bring it back, not the point though is it)