The world's biggest laptop??

[GuoXing]

EDIT:http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/o ... 030896.htm

I love this laptop. ^^I want this.

[NS]

This is even better. Looks like a counter? http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/o ... comp/hx20/

[tfflivemb2]

Yes, this topic has gone way off-topic, even for the off-topic conference.

As a side note: NS and GuoXing please take your bickering off line. This forum is not meant for you two to constantly nitpick each other to death.

[NS]

No, i did not attack him. He also don't attack me. He loves to take the opportunity to remind me to read the rules especially when i confessed to him that i forgot to read it the other day.

GuoXing, thanks for the reminder. Thanks mate...

~:::Cheers:::~

[archer6]

I have truly enjoyed reading this thread. Brings up lots of memories of all the "latest & greatest" of the past.

Reminds me how hillarious I find it when I read this ongoing argument of 14.1 vs. 15" T60 models. Seems like a general consensus is that the 14.1 is sooooo much easier to carry that the massively heavier T60...

Just for kicks, I ordered the "optional travel bezel" for my 15" T60. Then I weighed both my 14.1" & 15" both of which are the same configuration.

Surprise....surprise... now the 15" T60 is only 4oz. heavier than the 14.1" T60!.....

Oh, and by the way, I was already carrying the T60 daily, as I really like the 15" IPS display.

[lophiomys]

Bullfrog - a real whopper -
UltraSparc with Solaris
seems to be all Made in USA.

http://www.tadpole.com/images/US/produc ... _large.jpg
http://www.tadpole.com/products/noteboo ... frogv2.asp

Dual Ultra Sparc
http://www.tadpole.com/images/US/produc ... _large.jpg

(Strangely enough their web site is an .asp, not a .jsp as you would expect)

[christopher_wolf]

Sun actually has some new laptops out, costing upwards of $4K for the base model; I don't know who builds the laptops for Sun though.

http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CEServl ... tid=132680



Seem a bit skimpy on the workstation details, only 2GB of memory, UltraSPARC IIi unless you pay significantly more for an UltraSPARC IIIi; 80GB IDE HDDs, etc

[beeblebrox]

I did a google on this topic and i am going to buy a Kensington lock to try on it later and will report back the results. USe simple materials to unlock the lock. Fantastic and wonderful.

IMPORTANT: If you intend to leave your laptop for more than 1 minute, please bring it along with you or else it will be gone... Better be safe rather than sorry.

Please do not post how you were able to unlock it, aside from using a key.

Nonsense, Kensington is faced with a class action law suit, because its products are faulty by design. And when simple video clips on the internet emerged and showed that this Kensington Bike Lock (bike, not notebook!) could be opened with a simple BIC pen, Kensington sued the guy releasing the video clip for damages. That led to the counter claim and law suit against Kensington.
If you are not allowed to review a product and easily show how it fails, you are not being supposed to be sued by the product's maker.

Kensington sucks. I have a notbook lock, a rigid and a flexible bike lock. All of them are crap!

[christopher_wolf]

Please do not post how you were able to unlock it, aside from using a key.

Nonsense, Kensington is faced with a class action law suit, because its products are faulty by design. And when simple video clips on the internet emerged and showed that this Kensington Bike Lock (bike, not notebook!) could be opened with a simple BIC pen, Kensington sued the guy releasing the video clip for damages. That led to the counter claim and law suit against Kensington.
If you are not allowed to review a product and easily show how it fails, you are not being supposed to be sued by the product's maker.

Kensington sucks. I have a notbook lock, a rigid and a flexible bike lock. All of them are crap!

Oh? You mean like the video that JHEM originally posted here?

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... ington+bog

I must admit that it is pretty embarassing that the Kensington locks can get cracked like that; not much of a suprise though I guess.

Unless you have a ton of heavy duty locks mounted a la 4-point-corners on your Thinkpad in such a way as only their combo dials or keyslots are accessible, all that laptop locks do is delay the thief opening them or simply snapping the cable and making off with the laptop.

[tfflivemb2]

Please do not post how you were able to unlock it, aside from using a key.

Nonsense, Kensington is faced with a class action law suit, because its products are faulty by design. And when simple video clips on the internet emerged and showed that this Kensington Bike Lock (bike, not notebook!) could be opened with a simple BIC pen, Kensington sued the guy releasing the video clip for damages. That led to the counter claim and law suit against Kensington.
If you are not allowed to review a product and easily show how it fails, you are not being supposed to be sued by the product's maker.

Kensington sucks. I have a notbook lock, a rigid and a flexible bike lock. All of them are crap!

While you may feel that it is nonsense, IMHO I don't think that this forum should be used as a platform to advocate bypassing locks (and passwords for that matter).

As for JHEM posting that link, I had forgotten that I had read it here, but he is an Admin and is certainly welcome to do as he sees fit. THough, it should be noted that his post was more of a warning to those buying this type of lock.

The post that my comment was in response to, the poster was looking at testing it out and posting results, for the sake of doing so. There is a gray line between the two posts, but I still feel that we need to stay on the safer side of the line.

[christopher_wolf]

IMHO, the gray line gets snapped whenever somebody tries to go off and buy a lock that they think will fully protect their laptop from theft and end up getting a lock which can easily be countered; granted, such an ideal system doesn't exist, but it is as much of an obligation to alert people to the techniques that are used to bypass such security as it is to not link to it in the first place. A little searching will avail similar videos; there is a distinct difference between Reverse Engineering and learning about a system's strengths and weaknesses as opposed the gathering knowledge about a system in order to crack/break/steal it; the same goes for virus writers that try to probe a system for flaws and exploits so patches can be made against malware. If I was a consumer that wanted a lock, I would *certainly* wanted to have known about that video before purchasing a Kensington laptop lock.

And about the bike locks; they seriously need to make those locks better across the board for every maker, not just Kensington. As it stands, it doesn't take much thought, or force, to crack the majority of bike locks and I certainly wouldn't trust my bike to one of those kinds of locks.

[JHEM]

As for JHEM posting that link, I had forgotten that I had read it here, but he is an Admin and is certainly welcome to do as he sees fit. THough, it should be noted that his post was more of a warning to those buying this type of lock.

More a case of not putting too much faith in any security measure beyond a well tuned MK VI eyeball.

A cable lock of any type shouldn't be looked at as anything beyond a low level of theft deterrent, not prevention.

Regards,

James