Guess we’ll find out lol
Daughters Christmas present was a toy laptop because we didn’t want her just watching YouTube but at least she can learn typing and basic skills…
Nope, it’s an ABCDE keyboard instead of QWERTY… No transferable skills at all. Should have just bought a $50 last generation netbook and installed Linux on it.
(Arch BTW)
last generation
netbook
WHAT YEAR IS IT?
We used these ToughBooks on deployments in the US military about 20 years ago. One of the guys in my unit tested it by slowly driving a Humvee over it. It still worked. Screen was a little cracked, though.
I was a tech reviewer back then and I remember them doing a demo at a show with a Humvee driving over it. Not even a banged up screen in the demonstration. Truly impressive. Gel “envelope” around the HDD, gaskets throughout for water protection, metal alloy body (back when everyone else was still using plastic).
Couple of years later and I got a smaller, slightly less ruggedized version to test as well and turned my 2 1/2 yr old loose on it and absolutely no issues. So toddler tested almost two decades ago!
Those laptops are very pricey, basically twice the price of a regular laptop with the same specs.
Yea, but for a toddler id probably buy a cheap one used off eBay with like a Pentium and 4 gigs of RAM
It doesn’t take a lot of power to lead my children in the light of Linux after all lolol
Even something like that is still pretty expensive, I looked at buying a second hand one, and even used ones are crazy.
Fuck, this makes me wish my dad had taught me Linux so I had that knowledge growing up and didn’t have to learn it from scratch now as an adult
Throw sugar UI on it and it’s toddler time.
Which grade? Construction, police or military?
Well it needs to be able to handle random key bashing, undefined stickiness, milk spills, food droppings, crayon drawings and being yeeted off whatever surface it happens to be on at random times
So probably police lmao
That sounds closer to construction.
I picked up a construction-grade tablet PC back in 2010, and while I haven’t been todler-tough on it, it’s still running great and the peace of mind of it being so rugged has been great.
When I was young I once pretended to work on my dad’s laptop, and then I pushed it off the table and broke it.
