Hot or Not: Estonia laptop edition
By Darren Murph 
posted Feb 29th 2008 10:14AM
posted Feb 29th 2008 10:14AM
[Thanks, Flasher T.]
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apparently the russian cyber attack also involves hammers
Where did all those double-A batteries come from?
if you open up your laptop battery, the inside looks like a series of double A batteries.
and those AA may very well contain a string of "coin" shaped ones...
Those aren't AA batteries, they're lithium-ion cells, about 50% larger than a AA, it's what you'll find inside most laptop batteries.
Super small laptops contain flat rectangular lithium polymer batteries but the round cells are considerably cheaper still.
They should have give the winner an Apple laptop....
Shut up...
looks like the penryn chip isn't as good as originally expected
Best D3ll I have ever seen.
They should probably give them a Toughbook.
Pic looks like a 40% off special at CompUSA
please. i call major epic fail on this. its blatantly been beaten to death by a jackhammer or something! obvs a scam. i call shenanigans!
he wrote that an old Russian Volga parked on it
http://kampaania.ekspress.ee/hp/?p=37
Please vot for this one !
Engadget, you should have labeled this post NSFHG:
"Not Safe For Hardware Geeks". Be more careful next time.
Dell once again proves is superiority over all other PC makers. I think they just started carrying this one at Best Buy.
I guess they didn't play Doom ON it, but WITH it. That's nice for a change.
I love it how well old laptops like the original powerbook, the Toshiba T1200 and T3100 and the lunchbox/luggables like the Kaypro, Siemens and Sharp PC7000 have stood the test of time.
They might be somewhat worthless for anything beyond basic text processing (And Zork, hehehehe) but you don't see hardware that durable anymore.
Kas see on väga pandav arvuti!
Seems like this time, the battery was the ONLY thing to come out unscathed. Guess Sony is making them better than ever.
I had that laptop! It's the Inspiron 4100 (Pentium 3m). It ran hot as hell. Thankfully, I called Dell 5 years after I bought it (warranty expired 3 years after purchase) and they gave me a new Core Duo laptop with Vista for FREE (no warranty, though).
It was because it was overheating. They call this a "safety recapture". Awesome :)
... And I didn't even have to enter some stupid contest!
Maybe it was designed to look like that.
My wife is Estonian!!
I had one of those Dells once upon a time. It's an 8100 or 8200 (ish) series. Actually, mine still works, and I used it up until a year ago, when one of the hinges broke.
A Dell? Yep, I'd vote for it. It definitely looks like garbage to me.
Judging from the battery, this looks like a case of Dell FTL?
Dude, there are some in REALLY bad shape.
Oh foul! Foul! That Steampunk Laptop is frigging awesome.
Foul indeed. I'll trade my dv2000 for that steampunk rig.
Looks like this guy lives in a pretty bad neighborhood.
Most of those are just old laptops, and as ugly as they are, they're in decent shape for their age. An ugly laptop would be that sledged Dell or the blown-out IBM. I feel for those people, as I have laptops that have no screens, have a laptop with a hangin'-on-by-one-hinge screen, and I use them for real work. A new laptop is just too costly, and all my laptops range from 1993-1999, which goes to show just how much life you can truly squeeze out of a laptop.
Just in case anyone was wondering, the laptop in the picture looks to be an Inspiron 4100/4150 (or the Laitude C-series equivalent).
"Windows Vista Capable"
can i enter my mac air?