Jinnai
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Can't make this Macintosh related, but... I really wanted to show it off, I found an R550 on Yahoo Auctions Japan for 1300 yen. A while back, I had found a MC/R450, which is the same thing but with extra software installed, but someone had attacked it's motherboard with a screwdriver for some reason and it was totally dead. And when I got this R550 it had screen damage. Luckily for me, no harm had been done to the R450 screen nor ROM, so I swapped them over and it ran fine!
Of all NEC Mobile Gear II devices, which are MobilePro devices but in Japanese, the R450/R550 are the highest specced and the last made, with a 168mhz MIPS CPU and 16MB flash memory in addition to 32MB RAM and 65k color. Unfortunately the 65k color screen is even more terrible performing than the 256 color one, but it's still nice for wallpapers.
Here's a picture of it running Puyo Puyo, a popular old game but I've found the CE version to be very elusive:
Of all NEC Mobile Gear II devices, which are MobilePro devices but in Japanese, the R450/R550 are the highest specced and the last made, with a 168mhz MIPS CPU and 16MB flash memory in addition to 32MB RAM and 65k color. Unfortunately the 65k color screen is even more terrible performing than the 256 color one, but it's still nice for wallpapers.
Here's a picture of it running Puyo Puyo, a popular old game but I've found the CE version to be very elusive: