Was on the S11 this morning when the info screen froze and restarted.
Instead of the timetable it showed the BIOS, and turns out it’s running on an Intel Atom from 2009 with 1 GB of RAM and a 2 GB hard drive.
Honestly I’m more impressed it usually works than that it crashed.

by Fine-Muscle-9304

7 comments

  1. I think that to show up some mostly static information, images and a clock doesn’t need an RTX 5090 but still impressive

  2. The best thing is, there’s only one HDD and this one’s jumper is set to Slave not Master 🙂

  3. These old boxes are hard to kill. My laptop that I travel with etc. is from 2010, and I am missing nothing except for the slow boot time.

  6. I worked in a related field and you’d be surprised how old the hardware might be.

    We do have equipment that are basically mini computers and still running 24/7 for more than 20 years. From times to times, one does not reboot after a power outage because the BIOS battery was empty, and the BIOS threw an error. Change the battery and it’s good for another decade.

    Also, many systems that require a display are basically made of a small computer and a PC screen. A lot run on windows because it was the easiest for the company to develop the software on their desktop and use a similar environment in production.

  7. Assuming there some sorts of embedded display driver, thats actually a shitload of specs for an embedded device displaying a bunch of infos and connecting to a server… The more complex and „computery“ embedded devices get the harder it is to develop bulletproof stable systems in my experience

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