OT: PC Contained in keyboard?

[(PeteCresswell)]

I've seen PC's where everything is contained in the keyboard -
even has a DVD drive.

My agenda is that a family member has been using an old ThinkPad
(Celeron 500mhh, 262kb RAM... slow as death... keeps shutting
itself off....doesn't seem to recognize the USB port... CD drive
only/no DVD...) and I'm stuck with getting them back online.

Seems to me like even if I can get it running/re-imaged, it's not
going to have the horsepower to run 2000 Pro.

OTOH, my spare PC is an old 1.1mhz Compaq that I rescued from a
dumpster and upped the RAM to 640 megs on. It's no flash, but
I'd call adequate for the person's intended use.

With that in mind, I'd think that one of the PC-in-a-keyboard
machines would do the job too - and provide the form
factor/compactness that drove this person to use a laptop that
never leaves the home.

Has anybody run Windows 2000 Pro on something like that?

If so, what's your satisfaction level?

 

[Bob I]

You may have a better cross section by asking in the Windows 2000 group.
The "all in a keyboard" units are newer than Windows XP and so the folks
here wouldn't likely be running Window 2000.