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<p>In 2025 we also have "Barbie" and "Anathema" as additional expo laptops.
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<li>"Barbie" is a pink netbook dating from 2011 which was intended as a replacement to the blue Acer Aspire, but which is currently a general use laptop. It dates from 2011 and is a bit slow - it is donated by Philip Sargent. We have a 12V power supply for this, and it is small and light, so could be relocated to StoneBridge topcamp if that seems to be useful.
<li>"Barbie" is a pink netbook dating from 2014 which was intended as a replacement to the blue Acer Aspire but which is currently a general use laptop. It is an "HP Stream 11 Notebook", has only 2GB of memory, a 2.16GHz Celeron N2840, 32GB eMMC "drive" and is consequently a bit slow - it is donated by Philip Sargent. We have a 12V power supply for this, and it is small and light, so could be relocated to StoneBridge topcamp if that seems to be useful.
<li>"Anathema" is currently running Xubuntu/xfce (not Debian/Cinnamon like the others). As well as a recent solid-state disc and wifi it has an ethernet socket and (unsually) a working battery of 2 hours, pretty good for a 2011 machine. This is part of the Waddington bequest to expo (actually Michael Waddington's old gaming alienware laptop). It is actually configured to run troggle software locally, should that be required. It weighs 2kg and we don't have a 12V power supply for it, so it will live at base camp.
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<h4>Laptop batteries</h4>
<p>Both Crowley and Aziraphale are old and have bad batteries. Crowley only runs 10-20 minutes on battery and Aziraphale only about half an hour or so. So both should be run permanently plugged in to mains power. The blue netbook may not even boot up on battery. Barbie's battery lasts a long time, several hours, in use but annoyingly it self-discharges if left unused.
<p>Both Crowley and Aziraphale are old and have bad batteries. Crowley only runs 10-20 minutes on battery and Aziraphale only about half an hour or so. So both should be run permanently plugged in to mains power. The blue netbook may not even boot up on battery. Barbie's battery lasts a long time: several hours in use, but annoyingly it self-discharges if left unused.
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