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Always possible that the number is wrong. I don't exactly doubt it, I'd expect that with such a faulty product, AST would have had to compensate for the failed units and replace them all, probably with ones that fixed the manufacturing defects causing the problems (assuming that the number is...

Ah. How should I go about that? I’ll go look it up in a bit, perhaps tomorrow.

I got the 6GB drive installed, and I set the parameters to a 120something capacity since it was the highest thing the BIOS supports. The drive is detected, fdisk works, and format works. I can copy files to the drive and it will read the directory after a reboot. What it will not do, is read the...

I disagree. This video was an upload of a talk he did at a gaming expo, and he doesn’t really sensationalize things in his content. If you watch the whole video, I don’t think you’ll walk away thinking he hated the company. He criticized how the company was run (leading it to bankruptcy) and...

If the battery issue was as 8 Bit Guy described, they’d overheat to the point that stuff would start getting smoky and melted. Wouldn’t surprise me if they recalled the affected units because of that. 9:30 into this video is when he talks about it: And just to clarify an earlier point - the...

I didn't think PC Mag was available at all on archive.org! That's great to see - I need some higher quality direct pdf downloads, which google books doesn't allow.

I do wonder if perhaps they fixed a lot of the production issues causing failures and eventually given the extremely high RMA rate, most units today will be ones with many of the problems fixed. That doesn't make them immune to modern laptop issues, but could make them viable if you got the NiMH...

The Ascentia 950N wasn't really well known at all until a few years back when The 8 Bit Guy called them out in his AST "Tales from tech support" video for being incredibly unreliable (over 100% RMA rate, overheating and battery failures). Despite this, I have been unable to find any other...

I'm currently most interested in seeing what the G751 looks like, and if it's a match for the Jetbook 6100. Also could use photos of all mentioned except the 755 and 795, as you had a photo of those up already on orphanlaptops. Also - is it Alpha-Top or AlphaTop?

I think most used the same. My XL's charger doesn't fit my X4 or my FX, but they are both barrel jacks and should be easy to find. I use a universal PSU on my X4, and both my FX and XL came with the OEM chargers so I just use those there. The major exception is the original 486SLC/SX/DX WinBooks...

You have G755 laptops that haven't fallen apart yet? From all I've heard that's pretty rare. Bad plastic even when you wrote about them 15 years ago... You've got info on most of the AlphaTop laptops on your old site, I actually have a bunch of tabs open now as I'm working on transferring info...

Yeah it’s really low-wear. Unfortunately, the left hinge is snapped. The actual metal broke, just my luck. I got a partial refund from the seller as that wasn’t mentioned at all in the listing. That aside though, it’s in great shape. Also had to reflow the sound chip to get sound working on it...

Digging out information on these things is what I enjoy :) I've got plenty of pages on my website to go through if you enjoy reading this stuff. The 558 will beat out the N600c easily. Your 558 is from probably around 2003/4/5 and the Pentium M in it will outclass the Pentium III by a good...

I asked the bing assistant (GPT-4 basically, can also search the web) about a few of the obscure laptop brands I've documented, and it pulled information straight from here and from my site (it tells you where it sourced from). At some point it started talking to me as if I was the person who...

And lastly - on the topic of the WinBook project, my WinBook FX arrived (the reason I can't currently afford one of your G753s haha) and is all set up. I've updated the pages for it already with a good amount of additional info & photos that will go out with the next site update.

Thanks! Your orphanlaptops site certainly helped out a lot with that I have to say. According to the page on your old site, Alpha-Top was part of GVC and was bought out in 2001, then ECS must have kept using the Green moniker for a few more years after that. I'm very interested in seeing that...

ECS is Elitegroup Computer Systems. They are a large Taiwanese company that makes various computer components. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitegroup_Computer_Systems I'm not sure whether they still make laptops, but they made a bunch during the 2000s. They acted as an ODM (original...

Perhaps more obvious was the (completely unrelated to the article) image that they used. Those newspaper headlines that are pure nonsense.

I'm sure it will... at least right now it's pretty easy to tell. So hard to describe. Just that vague, trying to be expressive, yet clinical writing style. It just lacks humanity, which I suppose makes sense! Not to mention how much information will end up being incorrect. This one article...