Guest (PeteCresswell) Posted August 4, 2007 Posted August 4, 2007 I've seen PC's where everything is contained in the keyboard - even has a DVD drive. My agenda is that a family member has been using an old ThinkPad (Celeron 500mhh, 262kb RAM... slow as death... keeps shutting itself off....doesn't seem to recognize the USB port... CD drive only/no DVD...) and I'm stuck with getting them back online. Seems to me like even if I can get it running/re-imaged, it's not going to have the horsepower to run 2000 Pro. OTOH, my spare PC is an old 1.1mhz Compaq that I rescued from a dumpster and upped the RAM to 640 megs on. It's no flash, but I'd call adequate for the person's intended use. With that in mind, I'd think that one of the PC-in-a-keyboard machines would do the job too - and provide the form factor/compactness that drove this person to use a laptop that never leaves the home. Has anybody run Windows 2000 Pro on something like that? If so, what's your satisfaction level? -- PeteCresswell
Guest Bob I Posted August 6, 2007 Posted August 6, 2007 Re: OT: PC Contained in keyboard? You may have a better cross section by asking in the Windows 2000 group. The "all in a keyboard" units are newer than Windows XP and so the folks here wouldn't likely be running Window 2000. (PeteCresswell) wrote: > I've seen PC's where everything is contained in the keyboard - > even has a DVD drive. > > My agenda is that a family member has been using an old ThinkPad > (Celeron 500mhh, 262kb RAM... slow as death... keeps shutting > itself off....doesn't seem to recognize the USB port... CD drive > only/no DVD...) and I'm stuck with getting them back online. > > Seems to me like even if I can get it running/re-imaged, it's not > going to have the horsepower to run 2000 Pro. > > OTOH, my spare PC is an old 1.1mhz Compaq that I rescued from a > dumpster and upped the RAM to 640 megs on. It's no flash, but > I'd call adequate for the person's intended use. > > With that in mind, I'd think that one of the PC-in-a-keyboard > machines would do the job too - and provide the form > factor/compactness that drove this person to use a laptop that > never leaves the home. > > Has anybody run Windows 2000 Pro on something like that? > > If so, what's your satisfaction level?
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