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What kind of PC/Laptop is this? (lemmy.ca)

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I saw it on Mythbusters S5E3

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[–] AstridWipenaugh 28 points 2 months ago

We called them "luggables". They're expensive, but having a server in a box with a monitor was worth it when you could lug it to a customer site and give a live demo of your server stuff. We were doing telephony stuff and you could put a $5000 dialogic pcie card in it and demonstrate call handling live. We can do that with software on a standard issue laptop these days, but the luggable helped seal the deal back in 2005.