bell
Bell is named after Bell Hooks. It's an old Panasonic Toughbook CF-W5. The Panasonic landing page is utterly useless other than to say it's "discontinued". According to small-laptops.com, it's "being discontinued" since 2008, with an original tag price of 2269$ (!). It was reviewed positively by Wired and ZDNet in 2007 (!!).
The Panasonic wiki has full specs, which include:
- CPU: Intel Core Duo 1.06GHz
- RAM: 512MB, upgraded to 2GB
- Storage: 150GB Hitachi HTS54161 HDD which, amazingly, still works
- Display: 12.1" 1024x768 TFT LCD
- PC card, SD card reader
- weird 83-keys keyboards with japanese keys
- D-Sub 15-pin video output
- 56k Modem (!!) and 10/100 ethernet
- 2.9lbs
This is one of my many spare laptops that I have lying around in a
drawer. It's running Debian "jessie" 8 with some "stretch"
sources.list... When I booted it in November 2022, the last login
was from 2017, running the Linux kernel 3.16.0. Incredibly, this OS is
still supported by Debian LTS, until 2025 for a limited set of
packages.
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