chrismeyer6 wrote on Today, 00:31:

Oh man that hurts to look at. I'm sorry that happened to you. Was it not packaged properly?

There didn't appear to be any damage to the packaging when the delivery turned up, but it's clear it has been dropped on one corner.

I don't think the box was sturdy enough. Plenty of internal packaging, but quite a thin box for such a heavy laptop.

The second Kapok laptop arrived today while I was at work, this time without being smashed into a million pieces... this is the 8500p - supposed to be MMC-2 processor module, 15" 1024x768 screen, 8MB ATI Rage LT Pro, ESS Audiodrive 1879 + wavetable chip.

It's a bit dinged up, and missing the HDD caddy (but on that front I already checked; the caddy from the smashed 8500c *does* fit), but otherwise as I expected it.

Apart from:

It's another ESS 1878S Maestro-2E model! 👎 ... not the expected ESS 1879 Audiodrive and discrete wavetable module.

Piece of junk! My luck is just not very good at the moment.

megatron-uk wrote on Yesterday, 21:21:

First of the Kapok machines arrived today and I was able to unbox it this evening.

Oh, that is a shame. These do have rather brittle plastics, so making sure they're packed well is a concern for sure.