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[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It looks cool and all, but its probably going to have like 400mb of ram and an rp2040 like every other linux handheld device.

[–] 737@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 13 hours ago

rp2040 can't run linux?

[–] piexil@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It has a 3gb ram and an a53

Perfectly reasonable specs

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Not for 2025, sorry.

My phone has 16 GB of RAM, 3 GB is ridiculous, especially with the modern web.

[–] Michal@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

With 640x480 screen i doubt it'll be used for web browsing, unless you use lynx. Firefox in a pinch, but my guess is this will appeal mostly to Linux terminal users.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] twei@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 22 hours ago

Would you buy one that is? (assume the specs that this thing has, also consider that your answer has to be valid when you eventually get it in 5 years or so)