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