Guess we’ll find out lol
My brother had one in 2003 that I accidentally broke. Apparently I still feel bad about it. Not sure why.
Edit: just remembered. It’s because I let him think it was baggage handlers when I’m pretty sure it was me (fell off cart while I was loading bags). Still worked but plastic case cracked :/ Sorry bro
Daughters Christmas present was a toy laptop because we didn’t want her just watching YouTube but at least she can learn typing and basic skills…
Nope, it’s an ABCDE keyboard instead of QWERTY… No transferable skills at all. Should have just bought a $50 last generation netbook and installed Linux on it.
(Arch BTW)
Some skills may transfer, in her classrooms she will see the alphabet and perhaps remember it from her laptop
last generation
netbook
WHAT YEAR IS IT?
We used these ToughBooks on deployments in the US military about 20 years ago. One of the guys in my unit tested it by slowly driving a Humvee over it. It still worked. Screen was a little cracked, though.
I was a tech reviewer back then and I remember them doing a demo at a show with a Humvee driving over it. Not even a banged up screen in the demonstration. Truly impressive. Gel “envelope” around the HDD, gaskets throughout for water protection, metal alloy body (back when everyone else was still using plastic).
Couple of years later and I got a smaller, slightly less ruggedized version to test as well and turned my 2 1/2 yr old loose on it and absolutely no issues. So toddler tested almost two decades ago!
My buddy uses one of these for his work on boats. Doesn’t matter if you’ve got it wedged between an engine and a rough fiberglass bulkhead, can handle being dropped in the bilge.
Way back Storm cases warranty said they would warranty anything except shark attack and children under the age of three. I should have taken a pic, looks like that doesn’t exist anymore.
Those laptops are very pricey, basically twice the price of a regular laptop with the same specs.
Yea, but for a toddler id probably buy a cheap one used off eBay with like a Pentium and 4 gigs of RAM
It doesn’t take a lot of power to lead my children in the light of Linux after all lolol
Fuck, this makes me wish my dad had taught me Linux so I had that knowledge growing up and didn’t have to learn it from scratch now as an adult
Even something like that is still pretty expensive, I looked at buying a second hand one, and even used ones are crazy.
Throw sugar UI on it and it’s toddler time.
Which grade? Construction, police or military?
Well it needs to be able to handle random key bashing, undefined stickiness, milk spills, food droppings, crayon drawings and being yeeted off whatever surface it happens to be on at random times
So probably police lmao
That sounds closer to construction.
I picked up a construction-grade tablet PC back in 2010, and while I haven’t been todler-tough on it, it’s still running great and the peace of mind of it being so rugged has been great.
I need updates on this. Also, create a backup disk for when they inevitably delete something important somehow by bashing keys
Toddler nothing, my cat apparently knows more macros than I do.
Vim and Emacs were made by cats after all
When I was young I once pretended to work on my dad’s laptop, and then I pushed it off the table and broke it.
I would wager that getting a toughbook would be a little overkill. I remember one of my friends in primary school, who was on a step ladder taking posters off the classroom wall, dropped his fully open ThinkPad 11e on the ground, not even a scratch.
I just want to build my own in one of those metal briefcases, then walk around with it attached to my wrist by handcuffs.
how many thinkpads?
What is it
Standard law enforcement laptop in the US, also used in the military sometimes, because it’s all but indestructible. Generally they are a few years behind on internal components. Made by
IBMPanasonicThe toughbooks are generally made by Panasonic
