Barebones Notebook

Gsurface writes "The first barebones notebook makes its appearance. The barebone notebook features no display, no CPU, no RAM and no HDD, but only the case, with keyboard and touchpad."

I bought one of these!

[loucura!]

It makes a really great prop for my couch... I really needed to take those videos back to Blockbuster.

Zero posts and its already down?

[bogie]

nt

Who needs a screen?

[Grim Grepper]

Why back in my day, all you needed were some LED's.

And why use a hard drive when you have perfectly good cassette tapes laying around?

And it comes with a barebones webserver

[jmulvey]

... because 2 posts into the Slashdot thread, and the website is done-for?

I think it's their webserver that is running without a CPU.

AKA

[endoboy]

etch-a-sketch

Problems with hosting on a barebones laptop

[ifreakshow]

They should have installed the memory, HDD, ect. before posting the link on slashdot

Finally something that ISNT a beowulf cluster

[siberian]

Finally, something I don't WANT to make into a Beowulf cluster..

Oh this is too easy....

[CoyoteGuy]

Now all I need is a high resolution color printout of a desktop, a bag to match, and I can sit at the coffee shop pickin up chicks for a much lower price than buying an actual laptop :P

Slashdot - Sarcasm, Trolls, and Ego... All under one roof

Re:Already /.'d?

[Soul-Burn666]

I'm sorry, but I must....

In Soviet Russia, the sites Slashdot you!

A way out of the MS tax

[Metalhead01]

First off, I'd simply like to say that I haven't had a chance to read article (damn ./ effect).

But from what the little blurb said, this looks like an excellent way to avoid paying for Windows and all the other bundled software that people don't want or need. Though the cost of parts and installation may offset this just a bit.

Website

[GMontag]

Apparently they are running the webserver on one of these things.

Tech tips: add a motherboard, processor, ram, ethernet and HDD. Might want to add some software and an OS also.

Barebones webserver

[gmuslera]

The site that speak of this notebook looks like its hosted in one of them, no disk, no cpu, no bandwidth, no network card, and no monitor to see that nobody can access it right now :)

Keyboard? Keyboard?

[burgburgburg]

Why in my day, we used to get up at 2:00 am, eat a plate of hot gravel, crawl to the office over broken glass, and when we got there, we'd have to pound on the computer with our foreheads in place of typing. Keyboard? Kids today have it easy.

I'm all for lighter notebooks...

[rtrowbridge]

...but how am I supposed to get any work done on a laptop without any RAM or a CPU? :)

Call that barebones?

[BabyDave]

Here's my picture of a real barebones notebook

Pretty neat, isn't it?

Re:Who needs a screen?

[Wobin]

You had tapes? I used to have to insert 28 punch-cards only to be able to play tetris...

Re:Already /.'d?

[daddymac]

I'm surprised it lasted this long.

Considering the web server has no display, no ram, no hard drive...

Trustworthy Hardware Platform

[Michael_Burton]

No CPU, no RAM, and no display. But on the plus side, your Windows installation opens fewer security holes than on other laptops.

Re:Call that barebones?

[SlightlyMadman]

-1 Redundant

Didn't you read the article? They have that exact same picture up.

Re:ok.....

[kfg]

From an electronics jobber. Where you'll also find everything you need to design, build and test everything from an old fasihoned crystal radio set to a mainframe computer.

You need only supply your own money and intelligence.

These days the answer to "Where do I get. . ." is almost always, " At the store."

You want a small particle accelerator? People sell them over the counter, or all the parts to build your own.

The only trick is to find the store. Trust me, it's there.

KFG

Barebones laptop without a display?

[g_adams27]

I'm all for bare-bones, but I at least want all the bones!

Wow

[Strange Ranger]

barebone notebook features no display, no CPU, no RAM and no HDD,

And the damn thing STILL runs Linux. Wow!


Oh. nevermind..

barebones server

[pyros]

Maybe they're using their barebones laptop as a web server. Probably not a good way to market it.

Re:Who needs a screen?

[phoenix_rizzen]

You had punch cards? Talk about spoiled.

We, my friend, had to input our code using dip switches, 1 byte at a time. And heaven forbid that you make a mistake near the end of the program, 'cause then we had to start all over.

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Hey, I used to have one of those...

[Archie Steel]

...if I remember correctly, it was called a ZX81... :-)

For Sale

[dupper]

1 barebones server - case, slightly fire damaged. Used to host www.exbitlabs.com.

Re:Who needs a screen?

[loucura!]

You had tetris?! I had to insert 28 punch-cards, for nothing! And it had to be done, too! You know what! We liked it!

Durned-kids these days.

Re:Who needs a screen?

[loucura!]

You had TAPE?! I had to make do with paste... which was fortuitous, because it could double as a tasty-tasty buritto substitute.

Re:Who needs a screen?

[mihalis]

You had punch cards? Talk about spoiled.

We, my friend, had to input our code using dip switches, 1 byte at a time. And heaven forbid that you make a mistake near the end of the program, 'cause then we had to start all over.

You had dip switches? You were lucky! We had to ... no, I just can't bear it any more.

Lunchbox!

[Valiss]

So it's a keyboard glued to a lunchbox? I'll make one and sell it to you for half of what they want.

Finally!

[ohzero]

A completely secure mobile computing solution...

who will be the first to offer mod chips?

[Seahawk91]

Oh crap, there is nothing to mod!!! Maybe I can use my dremel on the case.

Re:No Display?

[Eccles]

while videos look awsome, applications look like carp!

If you got one of those amber displays, would they look like goldfish?

and it still

[geekoid]

runs at 150F...

Wait a darned second . . .

[xScruffx]

Mead has been selling barebones notebooks FOREVER. You just have to provide an input device.

High-end Mead notebook: $3.00 USD
Run of the mill input device: $1.00 USD

xScruffx

Ill sell you one - good price too.

[_ph1ux_]

Totally Bare bones System BLOWOUT!!!!

For only a nice even $1000.00 !!! You get the following Barebones Laptop:

No Display!
No RAM!
No Battery!
No Extra Battery!
No CPU!
No Keyboard!
No HDD!
(1) Laptop Carrying Case.

You get to pick all the compnents you want in your barebones system - and each can be added at an additional cost.

ACT NOW! While supplies last!!!

Re:Who needs a screen?

[Anonymous Coward]

You had a crank! We did not even have arms! I had to drag each bit up a hill with my teeth.

I might start the day dragging a byte per load, but by the end of the day it was all that I could do to move a bit.

Did I tell you that we worked seven days per week twenty three hours per day. Then the managers started pushing for five nines uptime. That was when I invented that crank for you kids.

Re:Interesting, but

[RzUpAnmsCwrds]

That's the point of building a system: it's for people who don't believe computers are a commodity.

Many people also believe that autos are a commodity. Yet we see many people putting hard work and effort into a car.

What they, and the people who build PCs (like myself), get out of their machine is much more than what someone who buys a Dell gets out of their system.

Buy a Dell if you want a tool. Build a PC if you want a friend.