• deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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        4 months ago

        If the point of this thing is to bring back the best of mid-90’s PCs in a compact package, they should have picked the top consumer CPU of the era.

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          4 months ago

          They should have used a raspberry pi and some emulators in that adorable little case.

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            4 months ago

            Gonna disagree with you there. If the mission is to run 1990s apps, we need a 32bit x86 CPU.

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              4 months ago

              I have windows 3.1 running in an emulator faster than that eras hardware could ever dream. So, gonna have to double disagree.

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                4 months ago

                Faster isn’t always better – there’s software from the era that relied on hardware limitations to throttle itself – but I’d think that emulators probably have pretty good support for such throttling.

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                4 months ago

                If someone wanted emulation, wouldn’t they have bought one of the many other tiny laptops that have been on the market for years?

                I think the point of this is to run natively on vintage hardware.