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I had one of these! I brought it on a bicycle tour around Europe to stay in touch with my business, as I hopped on WiFi hotspots at all the McDonalds. I remember it being awfully slow but small enough to fit into the front bag of my bicycle, which is super, super wild now that I think of it.

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It was a traveling dream. You could do necessary PC things on it if you really needed to but it was painfully slow so you wouldn’t just spend time playing with it. It was absolutely tiny for it’s time so it fit in my backpack easily. It was a cheap piece of crap so I didn’t feel bad throwing it in my pack with dirty clothes and who knows what else and not have to worry about my $1200 business laptop. There really wasn’t anything like it at the time. It was a big hit from what I remember

It certainly had a buzz to it, and yeah: I didn't really worry about it getting destroyed.

I do remember the next time I rode a tour with a laptop (Paris to Amsterdam), I took my 2008 Macbook Pro. Survived the Paris Roubaix Cobbles!

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