So I've got this fun luggable that I picked up this weekend.
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Pulled the PSU. It's a Sparkle Power 480w PSU
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The DVD drive is a Sony DVD/CD rewriter, apparently. An AD-7740H
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And we're mostly in!
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and really, what the fuck is this? Did you run out of the correctly sized fans that day?
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I'm starting to worry that they custom-made this heatsink.
This thing is very heavy. I don't have a scale nearby or I'd weigh it, but it's the kind of heavy YOU DON'T PUT IN PORTABLE COMPUTERS
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The bracket for the power supply (yes, really) hides another board:
This DVI to LVDS board.
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They found low-profile RAM, because otherwise it'd run into the PSU
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Their LVDS cables were too long (A problem NO ONE HAS EVER HAD BEFORE) so they just bundled them over here
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yomimono, still on earthreplied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@foone i’m sorry, is that heatsink just a bunch of headless screws forced into a hunk of copper? autocorrect thought I meant “heartsick”, which is appropriate
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by [email protected]
okay, the (broken) display is an LG LP171WU5.
That's a 17.1"(43cm) laptop display, 1920x1200, LED backlight.
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@foone I'm reasonably sure that's an old Swiftech MCX478-V cooler, lol
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The bottom of the device says it came with Windows 7 Pro Embedded, and it was manufactured in March of 2012
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@Lapsus I think you're right!
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@yomimono yes!
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And let's get back to what this thing is:
It's a FleXtreme NextDimension, that's what!
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That's these people:
https://solutions.nextcomputing.com/Apparently they started as Sun workstation supplier for government and military customers, and later started doing high-performance luggables for a variety of markets, including video production. Thus, this thing.
I can't find this model on their site, but they did a lot of custom things (and this thing is 12 years old: they might have just deleted it from their site ) -
@vga256 nah, that's a little too new
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hard drive is not dead! but annoyingly it's bigger than the spare hard drive I have in my imaging machine, so I can't just copy everything over
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okay so I rapidly found out some info.
This thing does have data on the hard drive. This used to be used by a church in the bay area, and it's one that boasts on their website that they livestream their services.
I bet up until relatively recently they were using this machine to do that
