3D Linux Laptop Available

Anonymous Writer writes "EmperorLinux is distributing the Sharp Actius RD3D autostereo laptop with Linux pre-installed, dubbing it the 'Molecule'. Almost all the hardware features can be utilised under Linux; the autostereo 3D display (most importantly), CD-RW/DVD-RW combo drive, Ethernet port, audio hardware, PC Card slot, 4 USB 2.0 ports, FireWire port, Sony Memory Stick slot, Compact Flash slot, SD slot, and internal floppy dive. The only built-in feature unsupported is the internal 56 Kbps modem, however a supported 56 kbps PC Card modem is available as well as a WiFi PC Card."

Comments

Linux?

[Anonymous Coward]

"The autostereo 3D display (most importantly), CD-RW/DVD-RW combo drive, Ethernet port, audio hardware, PC Card slot, 4 USB 2.0 ports, FireWire port, Sony Memory Stick slot, Compact Flash slot, SD slot, and internal floppy dive"

Yeah but... does it run Linux? Oh wait...

Porn just got a lot more interesting..

[x.Draino.x]

So who's going to be the first to the market with a 3D-Enhanced porn site?

Re:Porn just got a lot more interesting..

[L. VeGas]

They've had triple D's on porn sites for a long time already.

Re:Porn just got a lot more interesting..

[Anonymous Coward]

So who's going to be the first to the market with a 3D-Enhanced porn site?

Your mom

Re:Porn just got a lot more interesting..

[callipygian-showsyst]

Well, here's a 3D Live Webcam site! All you'd have to do is ask the guy on the other end to take his shirt off!

Blast from the Past

[RobertB-DC]

Since $3,000+ is a bit outside my range (my range being closer my $35 PII Linux box), I naturally checked out the Emperor Linux Jobs Page to see if I could suppliment my income. What a blast from the pre-bust past, mixed with a bit of post-bust reality:

Work at EmperorLinux: the most fun you can have with ...

EmperorLinux is not actively hiring.

However, we are always on the lookout for fun and knowledgeable people who like things Linux. If you like to:
ride your bike to work,
hike in the mountains,
recompile your kernel weekly,
drink Mountain Dew with extra sugar,
play in the dirt with your hands,
make fun and informative web pages,
use the "taste test" when debugging circuits,
run with scissors barefoot in the rain,
or anything similarly off-center,

send us an interesting mail telling us why you think we would like you.

I've done nearly all of those things, if you can substitute "hand-code Z80 machine code" for "recompile your kernel". But I think I'll stick with my boring but very stable job coding VB in the tax accounting business. I'll have time to lick random circuitry when I retire.

Re:Blast from the Past

[RobertB-DC]

You code Z80 weekly?

Yes, very weakly. [rimshot]

Since the description said "if you like to...", I figured I could include my mid-'80s TRS-80 coding skillz as the old-school equivalent of compiling your Linux kernel.

BTW, I'm not talking about using EDTASM (editor/assembler)... my first Z80 coding was in binary. You'd have an opcode like 101xxx11, where xxx depends on which register you're referencing, and I'd plug in the bits, convert to decimal, and POKE the routine into memory. Saving before running was essential, but painful -- all I had was cassette tape storage.

And I walked to school, too! In the snow! Uphill! Both ways!!!

3D? Great!

[exp(pi*sqrt(163))]

My laptop is 2D. I hate the way it's so flat. It's horrible to type on because the keys have no travel. It's easy to bend and tear by accident. Sometimes it's really hard to see because when you look at it edge on it has no thickness. It disappears in piles of paper. A 3D laptop would be much better!

Re:3D? Great!

[archen]

I used to have the same problem with a 2D Linux laptop until I installed Gentoo. I had so much time on my hands waiting for KDE to compile that I learned origami and now it's not flat anymore - it's sort of... crane shaped.

Re:Price

[jcostantino]

Especially when you consider that it's $2999 w/o Linux.

3D?

[dickeya]

Do we get free 3D glasses?

Ow my Eye!

[TBone]

Gives a whole new meaning to "pop-up" doesn't it?

What the rest of us want to know...

[freeze128]

Does it have drivers for Windows?

How about Sound/modem Drivers for DOS (you heard me!)?

Re:Wow

[drinkypoo]

RTFS(tory): The only built-in feature unsupported is the internal 56 Kbps modem

Now I can understand being too lazy to read the article, but the relevant information was actually in the story submission.

You, sir, win THE PRIZE.

3D was so yesterday

[Psymunn]

2D, 3D, man that's so yesterday?
My laptop (supplemented with my flux capacitor powered N-Vidia card) has 4 dimensions. Thanks to this wonderful feature I can see it Crashing while it's booting up.

Re:3D???

[mikael]

I wish people would quit throwing that word around until we have a true 3D display.

Absolutely. I can't wait to have a laptop that can project an animated 3D holographic shark that jumps out whenever I view a movie trailer.

The only important question has to be....

[tolan-b]

what about Quake?

I can't wait to type ls on one of these!!!

[cks3]

bash in 3-D...NICE!

Killer app

[fpedraza]

3D porn!

Old 2D Laptop

[fok]

I'm selling my old 2D laptop to buy a new 3D laptop.
Here's the pictures:

Front view, chassis closed:

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Side view, chassis closed:

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Anyone interested?