This WEIRD Japanese Laptop LOOKS 20 Years Old…

[TannerMcCoolman]

Are you a sucker for good laptop IO? Do you need every single port? Well turns out there's still devices out there with things like optical drives, full sized SD card readers, and VGA, while also having modern comforts like Thunderbolt 4. But...they're only available in Japan. Why does this market still exist in one place while being completely forgotten everywhere else?

[RandomLegoBrick]

if it had a trackpoint and came in black I'd totally get this

[filpo]

this laptop is the definition of sleeper build. Too bad this cpu's here

[ahuckphin]

I understand the focus of the video was the concept rather than the model of laptop itself, but I would have been interested to know, for example, does the thicker chassis means quieter and cooler operations compared to a more traditional laptop?

[TimedPing]

I wish the Framework team making a "classic" or "legacy" chasis using the same motherboard layout but having "legacy I/O" like Slim BD drive and "native" serial port build in while retaining the 4 expansion slot

[sub68]

13 minutes ago, RandomLegoBrick said:

if it had a trackpoint and came in black I'd totally get this

They have black models.

9 minutes ago, filpo said:

Too bad this cpu's here

Since its a business laptop intel makes sense for management and reliability.

 

I always wanted that type of model because its a universal laptop and useful when I am doing AV stuff and have to plugin to random old to new stuff

[Rarity]

video has me curious about getting one now though .. lol 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

This is what IT departments want Lenovo to do with the ThinkPad line. Now we have overheating pieces of crap with the X series that have none of the IO people need for their antiquated remote setups at home. Yes, us nerds have a fancy docking station and perfect cable management but regular working folk have 15 year old monitors. 

[f222]

I couldn't agree more with the lack of I/o on modern PCs. 

 

At work we need to have at least 3 USB-A on our laptops (we work with industrial equipments and some of them need 2 serial for communication + 1 serial for flashing the rom). We already don't have the place to put our PC so having a dock on top of the PC is just a pain(and the last time someone used a dock it bricked the equipment while flashing, we're still not sure if the issue came from the proprietary to "standard" serial adapter, the "standard" serial to usb-a adpater or the usb-a to usb-c dock that malfunctionned but we never had issue without that stupid dock). 

And finding a laptop with correct specs (we also do unity-3d and heavy on those laptops) is a pain. We had 17 inch zbook fury but the new generation (the 16 inch) has only 2 USB-A even if there is the place for much more... 

 

And this is without taking into account all the crappy docks on the market. Soo many of them are just pure garbage and when buying you don't know which one will be good (unless you take hp official dock but when you make your company pay a laptop 4-5k€ it's hard to explain that it won't work without a 400€ dock...) 

[Skipple]

There's a reason why I daily drive a Thinkpad X260. It's close to my ideal laptop.

• It's tiny, relatively light.
• All day battery (12+ hours) 
  • HOT SWAPPABLE
• Upgradeable RAM
• HDMI, 3x USB-A, SD Card, Headphone Jack
• A honest to god ethernet port

The only thing it's missing is USB-C and m.2 support. (technically there is a component that I could buy to give it NVME support, but it's relatively expensive)

 

I think if I were to go through this project again, I would do it on a X270 for the added features, but I have to ask WHAT HAPPENED TO LAPTOPS LIKE THIS?

 

 

Give me a laptop that's small, but has a big chunky battery to last all day. A decent 1080p screen and a low powered but capabile CPU w/ onboard graphics that sips power. Give me the ports I need. 

[AAVVIronAlex]

0:22 that laptop is not from 2015, it should be from 2005, which was when the Intel Centrinos were a thing.

[Skipple]

20 minutes ago, AAVVIronAlex said:

0:22 that laptop is not from 2015, it should be from 2005, which was when the Intel Centrinos were a thing.

Good catch. Judging by the Core Duo L2400 it appear to be 2006/2007. More than likely an editor mistake. 

 

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Panasonic-Toughbook-CF-Y5.3143.0.html

[JAKEBAB]

5 hours ago, TimedPing said:

I wish the Framework team making a "classic" or "legacy" chasis using the same motherboard layout but having "legacy I/O" like Slim BD drive and "native" serial port build in while retaining the 4 expansion slot

This is what I've thought about since I first heard about Framework. Their entire ethos is to keep your chassis and upgrade the internals yet they sell the most boring and basic looking laptop on the market so why on earth would I want to keep it? Do throw backs to the older whacky mac laptops, panasonic toughbooks etc. Like make something I want to keep!!!

[Radium_Angel]

1 hour ago, Skipple said:

WHAT HAPPENED TO LAPTOPS LIKE THIS?

Apple happened. And everyone fell over themselves rushing to clone that crap.

[Drevo Dano]

I understand that people are nostalgic about DVD drives but do any of you actually want it in a laptop? It takes so much space and I don't see it used at all.

[Required]

How about the Fujitsu A Series who have an DVD drive to?
The Accu can be replaced just with one Screw to open.

[RandomAssRanch]

I've always loved the look of these. Almost bought one over there as well. But in the end Sony got my money every single time thanks to their (back then) amazingly good looking Vaios.

[BondiBlue]

8 hours ago, AAVVIronAlex said:

0:22 that laptop is not from 2015, it should be from 2005, which was when the Intel Centrinos were a thing.

A typo in a video from LTT? Shocking. 

 

I don't mean to hate on the editors, but do some videos get published without anyone looking through them? Simple mistakes like this happen all the time, and it's kind of odd for a channel of this size. 

[AAVVIronAlex]

7 hours ago, BondiBlue said:

A typo in a video from LTT? Shocking. 

 

I don't mean to hate on the editors, but do some videos get published without anyone looking through them? Simple mistakes like this happen all the time, and it's kind of odd for a channel of this size. 

We are all human, it does happen sometimes. Even if LTT is the author.

[BondiBlue]

5 hours ago, AAVVIronAlex said:

We are all human, it does happen sometimes. Even if LTT is the author.

Oh I know, it's just something that I see more than I'd expect from this kind of channel. 

[LMGcommunity]

22 hours ago, AAVVIronAlex said:

0:22 that laptop is not from 2015, it should be from 2005, which was when the Intel Centrinos were a thing.

 

22 hours ago, Skipple said:

Good catch. Judging by the Core Duo L2400 it appear to be 2006/2007. More than likely an editor mistake. 

 

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Panasonic-Toughbook-CF-Y5.3143.0.html

 

13 hours ago, BondiBlue said:

A typo in a video from LTT? Shocking. 

 

I don't mean to hate on the editors, but do some videos get published without anyone looking through them? Simple mistakes like this happen all the time, and it's kind of odd for a channel of this size. 

We had three laptops that all looked the same from ~2005, ~2015, and 2022, which resulted in a mix-up occurring while gathering B-roll.