[Hardware] This laptop with ports of all kinds was an ode to connectivity. But it had many drawbacks

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In the mid-2000s there were companies creating "FrankenPCs" laptops with desktop specifications.
The result was surprising, but impractical.

Apple didn't really like connection ports, and took advantage of the pull of its MacBooks and the appearance of the USB-C connector to reduce them to a minimum. In its MacBook Air it even included a single port of this type, something that many criticized for the need to go to #donglelife. Then, fortunately, it has been redeemed in some laptops and desktop PCs in its catalog.

Others followed in its wake in a trend that went precisely against what had been a maxim for laptop manufacturers in the early 2000s: many ports had to be included to avoid inconvenience to the user, and there were true connectivity monsters here.

This is the case of a 'retrobattlesttion' that appeared around 2006. Not even whoever published the images on Twitter - I still have a hard time using the X thing - makes it clear: it was done by the PC Philanthropy account, which showed a small but spectacular video in the that the laptop could be seen rotating with connectors and extra elements absolutely everywhere.

In that same thread the user ended up sharing some more images of a piece of equipment that was assembled by the company Falcon Northwest, although we have not been able to identify the specific model. In its configuration, the presence of the AMD Ahtlon 64 FX-60 processor with 2 GB of RAM stands out, in addition to an NVIDIA 7900 GTX graphics card that was launched in March 2006 and that was theoretically designed for desktop PCs, not for laptops. But Of course, this laptop was not a normal laptop. It was a special device intended for gamers and that tried to replace the most powerful PCs of the time, not only in power but also in connectivity.

In this visual tour we can see how the equipment had a serial and parallel port, DVI, triple! PS/2, dual Ethernet port, composite video, four USB-A ports, two FireWire 1394 ports, various audio outputs, MicroDrive slot, Smart Media, Compact Flash, PCMCIA, infrared, playback controls on the front and two re-recorders of DVD.

 

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