I find the title of this thread offensive.
I wanted a Mac Cube so much it was stupid. Still love the look of the machine, and feel like it'd do far better these days than it did back when it came out. (Though, I'm a laptop-only person now, so I probably still wouldn't get one.)
Not sure if it counts or not, but I utterly loved my MiniDisc player. Helped me survive living in Japan, even as I kept looking longingly at that fancy new iPod thing that had just come out. Hell, I even had an in-dash MiniDisc player in my car! Well, I did until someone broke into my car and stole it. I've also wanted some of the various other stupid Sony things over time, like DCC (Why? No idea!) or the little Mylo thing (back before we all had smartphones) or one of those little portable computers like you posted above.
I think one thing for me was that I was always obsessed with having that "do everything" pocket tech machine that you always saw in sci-fi movies and stories and whatnot, so I wanted to try a lot of the solutions that came out over time that might fill that role. Like, lord, I had a handful of those little Casio or other organizer things back in the day, and always thought they were amazing. Thankfully, the iPhone finally came along and satisfied that dream.
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