/vr/ - Retro Games

Just got a vintage Pavillion ZD7000 monster desktop replacement (like pic I found) and I love the craziness of it: regular desktop Pentium 4 Prescott at fucking 3.0 GHz shoehorned into a laptop (like having a nuclear reactor in your lap, but it does vent the heat well so lots of fan action), massive 17in screen. Cost thousands in 2003-2004 ish, topped out benchmarks for portables. Weights 10 pounds. Like 120+ watt psu. Full size keyboard, num pad and all.

Still browses the web on Firefox pretty respectably and shit. I love the clunky aesthetic of such a strange machine. Found there was even a forum for them back then , at www.zd7000forums.com but the archive.org crawl doesn't seem very good which makes me sad.

Era review: https://books.google.com/books?id=OgIAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=hp+zd7000&source=bl&ots=g0HEHmxWks&sig=ACfU3U3SIzSxOTfWxaVENRwtltzWuM0HQA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjkmvyA-8KDAxVnGVkFHSkuD_U4PBDoAXoECAMQAw#v=onepage&q=hp%20zd7000&f=false