Adorably petty design complaint.
I own a "portable room air purifier" which is essentially a glorified box fan with HEPA and charcoal filters strapped to it.
The manufacturer's definition of portability involves four small casters on the bottom of the thing, which makes for trivial relocation effort provided it's only travelling on a hardwood floor and not over any threshholds.
Sadly, it becomes evident in every single other reasonable use case that what the thing really needed was a HANDLE.
Adorably petty design complaint.
@ElectricKeet I believe that was the logic in calling the Macintosh Plus form factor 'portable' : it had a handle, after all.
Adorably petty design complaint.
@ElectricKeet (unlike the later "Macintosh Portable", which - being handleless - was clearly not.)
(Weighing 16lbs didn't help, either.)
Adorably petty design complaint.
@Momentrabbit Now I'm reminiscing about the large, wide, rectangular pivots-at-both-ends handle on the "portable" monstrosity of a system my father purchased back in 1986ish.
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/actrix/
The thing weighed in at over 35 pounds – but when one considers that it was a CRT, modem with acoustic coupler, dot matrix printer, and detachable wired keyboard all in one unit, that's about as portable as such a beast could get!
Adorably petty design complaint.
@ElectricKeet That is an *adorable* unit. Kinda Trash-80 aesthetic, with a bit of Kaypro thrown in for good measure. n.n
Adorably petty design complaint.
And here's the part that takes this from "mild misstep in the practicality department" to "did any of you knuckledraggers ever try to actually use this bloody thing":
It looks like this from the back. (Hey, look who has brand-new third-gen Hue bulbs in their bedroom!)
https://awoo.space/media/v0lw6K_RNkZpXoZWyTc
All that exhaust grill space where it curves downward? Empty inside. It would have been trivial to mould a handle into the centre.