You can find many strange gadgets on Aliexpress including portable Nintendo Wii consoles and this strange Book 8088 laptop. The latter boasts a 16-color (640 x 200) LCD screen, a 4.77MHz Intel 8088 processor, 640KB of RAM, an IBM-CGA graphics card, and several integrated interfaces to connect USB accessories as well as CompactFlash cards.
Priced at $199 USD, you shouldn’t expect too much, although the optional Yamaha YMF262-M OPL3 might be something needed if MS-DOS or Windows 3.0 gaming is your thing. Other options include an ISA expansion card connector and an Intel 8087 co-processor, which tack on around $75 to the price for both. For something similarly priced, you can check out the Hand386 handheld computer too.
- All-Day Battery Life – Go longer than ever with up to 18 hours of battery life.
- Powerful Performance – Take on everything from professional-quality editing to action-packed gaming with ease. The Apple M1 chip with an 8-core CPU...
- Superfast Memory – 8GB of unified memory makes your entire system speedy and responsive. That way it can support tasks like memory-hogging multitab...
Device is exactly as described, quite satisfied. The only places this device in it’s current iteration falls short in my opinion are: – The plastic quality. Even just making the current shell thicker on the exterior dimensions would probably significantly improve the feel of the device. – The screen. It works well enough, but the brightness, viewing angles, resolution, and aspect ratio leave much to be desired. – No built in serial port or composite output for the CGA ‘card’,” said one reviewer.
