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Re: Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

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Post by tjohns »

soperj wrote: post #56

Small space bar, weird enter key. Other than that only thing I'd really want is a trackpoint.

That style of enter key is common on European and Japanese keyboard layouts.

Similarly, the small spacebar is common on some Japanese keyboards to accomodate for extra language input keys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_input_keys

Re: Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

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Post by asc_jiji »

jchw wrote: post #60
jml7c5 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And is that an ethernet port on the right?

Ohh, good call: I wasn’t able to readily identify it. Now all I wonder is what the other 3.5mm looking hole is... maybe power?

Probably power on one side and kensington lock on the other

Re: Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

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Post by gorgoiler »

Very fun :) ...weird flex, but ok!

There’s a slight reflectivity to the laptop. At certain angles I can see a white light reflection but I can’t quite make out if there’s any shape to it.

I’m sure it’s nothing, but perhaps you could embed an Easter egg of your own?

Re: Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

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Post by hombre_fatal »

jchw wrote: post #43

3 full size USB ports, a USB-C port (could it be Thunderbolt?), a 3.5mm headphone jack, and an SD card reader. All in all, Tom Nook’s laptop appears to have pretty decent connectivity options for a modern laptop, while still remaining relatively thin.

Look again. It's an absolute tank of a laptop with dimension proportions you'd only see in gaming laptops.

Re: Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

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Post by modsWork4appl »

echelon wrote: post #57
modsWork4appl wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty objective since I've beaten every Zelda and I can't agree. Their games just aren't at the same level as anything modern. They use a big marketing budget to push their otherwise medicore platform. Although I think n64 was decent.

> I'm pretty objective since I've beaten every Zelda and I can't agree. Their games just aren't at the same level as anything modern. A lot of "modern" games come with rough edges. I'm not saying that they're not good games, but you can tell it was a bunch of people working to crank out features, exercising every new capability their engine provides. There's a level of polish that a lot of Nintendo games have. They d…

>There's a level of polish that a lot of Nintendo games have.

I'm not sure what games you are referring to, unless you are talking about n64 and GameCube era.

Botw was empty and Animal crossing has huge problems. Not to mention the failures of Mario party.

Re: Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

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Post by jchw »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #64
jchw wrote: post #43

3 full size USB ports, a USB-C port (could it be Thunderbolt?), a 3.5mm headphone jack, and an SD card reader. All in all, Tom Nook’s laptop appears to have pretty decent connectivity options for a modern laptop, while still remaining relatively thin.

Look again. It's an absolute tank of a laptop with dimension proportions you'd only see in gaming laptops.

Well, I was using the USB port as a frame of reference, since obviously external size references in the game are unlikely to be consistent... to me it looks somewhere along the lines of X1 Carbon size based on that. Maybe smaller. It’d be easy to derive more from the texture.

Re: Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

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Post by Rotten194 »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #64
jchw wrote: post #43

3 full size USB ports, a USB-C port (could it be Thunderbolt?), a 3.5mm headphone jack, and an SD card reader. All in all, Tom Nook’s laptop appears to have pretty decent connectivity options for a modern laptop, while still remaining relatively thin.

Look again. It's an absolute tank of a laptop with dimension proportions you'd only see in gaming laptops.

Using one of the USB-A ports for scale, the base seems to be 1.2 centimeters thick-- which I guess is more than a Macbook Air, but certainly not "a tank", IMO. For reference, my 2014 Thinkpad 440p has a base thats slightly more than 2 centimeters thick, and my Minecraft FPS can corroborate that it was never much of a gaming laptop ;)
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