Whooops!! My bad C:AMIE, my mind went black, I therefore appogise for any offence that you recieved from my comments.
Anyway..... former members of my windows family, before I even heard of handheld PCs:
(well worn when I inherited them from my father
)
Texas Instruments Extensa 560CD, with a Pentimun P75 processor, a whopping 48mb of RAM, a Cirrus Logic 1mb graphics chip amd I think it was an ESS sound card. Oh and top that with a massive 810mb hard drive.
(It was physically massive at 14.5mm high, approx
). The screen is large too, 12.1in DSTN, the rest of the screen was taken up with speakers. The styling wasn't bad and I spent many happy hours playing Transport Tycoon Deluxe on it, with an exteral keyboard, mouse and monitor!
. Oh and it had Windows 95 and a swappable floppy drive, I tried to replace the battery with the modular foppy drive and found a missing connector! I eventually gave up and used Windows 98.
Ditched in 2004, reason - unworkable condition, damaged screen
(half of it viewable, half a garbled mess. Then the hinge broke!
)
(Ended the wish to convert it to a Mini-ITX case
)
YIKES!!! Another Clevo, this time a Model 98, compare that with my newer laptop and you'll see a lot of difference.
One AMD K6 300mhz CPU, S3ViRGE 4mb video card
(I had the uRGE to dump it
), 128mb of RAM
(for a tiny while, until I had to revert it back to 64mb!
), Yamaha GX series
(?
) sound card
(No damm good at MP3s!
), 13.1in DSTN screen
(Ugh!
), 4GB hard drive, until I moved the computer and crashed it, so my father got a 6gb Hard drive, that too got dropped, but it was off and it wasn't me that time, and a former haunt for my D-Link card. It was very basic, but the only part I still have is the power brick, its about the only thing with any use, because it is a 2 pin power brick, it makes it more compatabile. It did have Windows 98 on it
(it orignally had no O/S
), but I just managed to put 2000 on it, which worked wonderfully well.
Final blow? The screen was damaged to begin with, it came complete with one red line for many years down one side of the screen
(it got wet during a torrentual downpour according to my father. It was in his bag, a waterproof bag, but the water breached the zip, filered into the laptop compartment and containated the screen
), the screen also came complete with a range of trapped bugs, causing a nice nusiance and plenty of cracks on the hinge area of the screen. Some quite deep ones.
Once this broke, my father decided to perform a DIY repair with super glue
(Note, never use super glue for anything
) in attempt to stick it all together, 1 week later, the super glue broke as well, prompting another fix, I decided that the best way is for it to be static, when it broke several times. I took the computer up to Birmingham for a trade show, when once again, the screen broke! Later, the hard drive failed altogether. It was an unrecoverable mess. It was promptly sent for scrap in March 2004.
One hardware fault it developed over time was one I could never figure out. Just before the screen seperated from the body, the screen turned off while on battery power, sometimes not immediately, but after some time. I had 2 battery packs, a NI-MH battery pack and a Lithum Ion battery pack. The Li-ion battery pack I would keep for standby and the Ni-MH I used more often, due to how long it lasted. That was until the Li-Ion battery pack went BANG, then it wouldn't properly reigester a charge! More lines on the screen later appeared, of different colours, so I had 4 freekin' lines across the screen.
Lastly, my IPC, its a reminiscance of my Clevo, except it has 2 Li-Ion batteries
(I was after Ni-HM batteries, because I am not convinced of the safety aspec of Lithium based batteries
) and it is larger. The computer has been taken apart several times because of the DC jack and speaker problems, it has had the work so far to date:
4 x DC jack repaired and resoldered
1 x DVD drive replaced
1 x battery replaced
(Colour doesn't match
)
1 x CPU thermal greese added
1 x crack treatment
3 x HD replaced
The IPC is a 1ghz P3 processor, with 384mb of ram
(64 used for the video card
), SiS630 video card, SiS900 net adapter, SiS7001 USB chip, SiS7018 sound card
(actully, it produced some superb sound compared to my SiS7012 sound chip used in my desktop
), SiS Core/Smartlink 56k modem, SiS north and south bridges, SiS EVERYTHING!!!
Now my new clevo is not SiS based
(Thank god!! Their poor hardware except sound causes many issues!
), but Intel based, including a Realtek AC97 sound chip in an Intel core, except the graphics card, which is ATI based.
Sorry, I had to include a life story.
That better not be a Piddle PC your spoiling the view with 
