Hi,
I was driving for work today and saw what I thought was a 15" LCD face down on the side of the road, which are always handy to give to friends, so I did a U-turn to pick it up.
Got it in the car and wondered why it had a relatively broad base - that's because it's a complete PC! It's missing the bottom CD tray so it basically looks like a basic 15" monitor to the unitiated. Quite a cool and interesting find in my mind, and could be a perfect kitchen/torrent download/iTunes serving PC if it works!
I'm yet to power it up as it needs a 12V power brick - something to look for during daylight tomorrow, but the specs are:
- Pentium III 1Ghz
- 815e chipset
- 256MB RAM (So-DIMMs)
- 30GB HD
- 2 x PCMCIA cardbus slots
- 15" 1024 x 768 LCD *and* VGA output
- Along with a couple of USB ports, network, etc.
... so it's basically an NEC notebook shoved in the base of a monitor, made to look as stealthy as possible!
A pic, but obviously not mine:
... there is little online about it, unless you're Japanese.
JB
I was driving for work today and saw what I thought was a 15" LCD face down on the side of the road, which are always handy to give to friends, so I did a U-turn to pick it up.
Got it in the car and wondered why it had a relatively broad base - that's because it's a complete PC! It's missing the bottom CD tray so it basically looks like a basic 15" monitor to the unitiated. Quite a cool and interesting find in my mind, and could be a perfect kitchen/torrent download/iTunes serving PC if it works!
I'm yet to power it up as it needs a 12V power brick - something to look for during daylight tomorrow, but the specs are:
- Pentium III 1Ghz
- 815e chipset
- 256MB RAM (So-DIMMs)
- 30GB HD
- 2 x PCMCIA cardbus slots
- 15" 1024 x 768 LCD *and* VGA output
- Along with a couple of USB ports, network, etc.
... so it's basically an NEC notebook shoved in the base of a monitor, made to look as stealthy as possible!
A pic, but obviously not mine:
... there is little online about it, unless you're Japanese.
JB