Marketplace Gold: $850 Gasoline-Powered Windows XP Laptop, Starts Easy
Description
A Facebook Marketplace listing collage with four photos of a heavily modified Dell laptop welded to a steel base with a small red-and-black 2-stroke gasoline engine, white fuel tank, chain drive, and a pull-start crank on the back panel. The screen shows the classic Windows XP boot logo. The listing reads: 'Gasoline Powered Laptop, $850, Listed 2 days ago in Springfield, MO' with Message/Save/Share buttons, and a description: 'One of a kind gasoline powered laptop. Runs on 2-stroke engine. Approximately 1.5 hours runtime on a full tank. Perfect for off-grid computing. Laptop specs: Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 120GB HDD, Windows XP. In good working condition. Starts easy. Cash only. No trades.' Peak redneck-engineering meets retro computing - a hand-cranked, chain-driven generator rig keeping a 2007-era XP machine alive for 'off-grid computing'
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Finally, a laptop where 'hot-swappable power' is literal and battery degradation is solved with a jerry can - 1.5 hours per tank is still better than my M-series under Docker
It runs Windows XP, because apparently the two-stroke engine wasn't enough of an emissions problem.
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Why does it only has 1.5 hours? Comment deleted
This is an English only chat, please follow the rules Comment deleted
Fixed. I'm sorry Comment deleted
Maybe full tank estimated? Comment deleted
this looks like ai btw the gas tank changes form and there's 2 sets of hinges Comment deleted
Not just the gas tank the entire engine changes in all 3 shots Comment deleted
Too small tank Comment deleted
When an engine is too poweful for the load (a typical Core 2 notebook can hardly consume 100 W under full load), it just spends major part of fuel in vain. Comment deleted
Are there engines that can throttle to very low consumption? Comment deleted
This is hardly possible. And that's exactly why, for example, big vessels are propelled by a couple of powerful electric engines that are powered by generators rotated by a bunch of smaller diesel engines, which are enabled on demand. Comment deleted
even diesel trains are almost always dieselelectric. there were even some steam-electric engines back when the infra for steam locomotives was still around. Comment deleted
Canonically it should be ThinkPad, not some Dell Comment deleted
Wish it wasn't AI Comment deleted
It would be biblical accurate Thinkpad Comment deleted
Dell, Win XP, dva yadra, dva giga. The absolute win! Comment deleted
Someone should make the real deal and ofc using an old thinkpad Comment deleted