I picked up an IBM WorkPad z50[1] in ~2000 at a fire sale price. It felt in many ways like good laptops do today: small, light, quiet (no fan nor spinning disk)

I picked up an IBM WorkPad z50[1] in ~2000 at a fire sale price. It felt in many ways like good laptops do today: small, light, quiet (no fan nor spinning disk), instant-on, long battery life, reliable. I can see why people didn't buy them (new, they cost a good chunk of what a "real" laptop would, but couldn't do nearly as much, basically just run a very stripped-down version of Office), but I always had a fondness for that little machine and only realize how much of the user experience was ahead of its time when looking back on it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_WorkPad_Z50 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_WorkPad_Z50