HP 8560w DreamColor display (2011) vs. tx2000 consumer display (2008)

Posted by AustriaModerator@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 6 comments

However, the tx2000's display is especially bad.

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Terrible-Bear3883@reddit

I've got an 8760W, its a right beast, if there's ever an alien invasion, I'm stuffing mine down my shirt as body armor.

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I used one as a daily driver out in the field for a couple of years. A wake up call to see it in the vintage computing sub. The power brick was literally the size of a brick. My username is the HP I had before this monster.

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hype_irion@reddit

We have Thinkpad at home

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LopsidedLegs@reddit

Hardly surprising, screen technology was still improving year on year, and the TX2000 had a touch screen as well which really did impact on the display at the time.

I had a TX2050EA for a while and it was a handy little machine for what I needed at the time.

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Primo0077@reddit

And here I am looking at it on my washed out display

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isecore@reddit

I had an 8770w some years ago. It was a tank. My girlfriend once accidentally sat on it. To be fair, she wasn't huge or anything but that thing didn't get a scratch. When it got obsolete, it spent like two years sloshing around under my bed.

Absolute unit of a computer.