Panasonic + OpenBSD = <3
64 points by gonzalo
64 points by gonzalo
These Japanese laptops are always so much fun to see whenever they pop up. Even the recent ones still have DVD drives. Really makes you wonder what American manufacturers are doing sometimes.
It reminds me of the Toshiba Portege we had back in 2012 which, while having a full 2nd gen i7 with proper cooling, a DVD drive, and a full 13” screen, was at least as light as if not lighter than a MacBook Air at the time. It also was built like a brick and took quite a few drops like a champ, on top of being an already-dinged-up store display model that we got for a discount. That thing was a unicorn in the American market.
It’s a shame the author copy/pasted from an LLM for their concluding paragraph, though.
Are these available with a US keyboard?
Some Let’s Notes are available with them because they’re sold in Singapore/Philippines/sometimes outright the US. Not sure about this model specifically.
Reminds me just a little of my Panasonic CF-M31, a weird and tiny little 586 from well before the “netbook” product category. I replaced the hard drive with a CompactFlash card and run FreeDOS on it.
I can definitely see the appeal but $300-800AUD second hand for a Skylake laptop is a lot.
https://www.fromjapan.co.jp/japan/en/item/search/cf-mx5/Al_11_Yh_RaRmMr_N_N_0A00ja000_N/