It looks cool and all, but its probably going to have like 400mb of ram and an rp2040 like every other linux handheld device.
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That looks amazing.
... For 2008.
2008 was awesome!
Being on Lemmy sometimes makes me feel like everyone here is old. Y'all talking about the years that I was born in as if it was like yesterday.
Worry not: in 20 years' time people born in 2028 will all pretty much look like kids to you.
You were born in multiple years?
I'd rather not give my birth year in a public post. I was just keeping it vague.
(It's not 2008 btw)
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That still looks awesome NGL
I would really love a return to a concept where you have a tablet that docks into a full size laptop form factor. Even better if the dock can have a graphics card.
Agree. Sometimes I want a tablet, sometimes a laptop but I don't need or want 2 separate devices of that size. I recall quite a few Android projects (Mirabook, Project Linda) that would use a phone with a laptop dock but I'd prefer a phone as a standalone device and a secondary, larger & more powerful, device that can have multiple forms.
yeah I also don't want android.
Was just using that as an example. It would be great to see a Linux device with this capability. I have played around with a few Linux phones and convergence was a feature that received attention so I think there's hope.
really feel framework is perfect for this. Make the screen a tablet. Have the additional graphics and hard drive on the base. Actually the microsoft surface book was basically what I want but with a company that sells it with linux and supports it with their company distro.
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yet an other hardware from 10+ years ago. here we have an ARM Cortex-A53 from what it seems to be 2012. Maybe it is actually compatible with OpenGL 3...
Our beloved consoles from the 80s and 90s were built with off the shelf parts, this is no different. Custom hardware in a niche market would lead nowhere.
this comparison is really bad. consoles built with 6502s could get away with it, since everything they ran were games crafted in assembly to fit the timings to the last clock cycle. this product is supposed to run modern graphical software.
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Sorry, if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. If you can't make this stuff at scale, no way you could sell it at $160 a unit.
They just use really low spec hardware…
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Those look really cool, I would be pleasantly surprised if they ever came to fruition
Basically Android is Linux but......in weirdest way if i must say.
Now....we just need to make it modular right....????
A little worried that with swapping those components like that, it's trying to be too many things for too many different groups of people instead of one exact thing.
I think all I really want is something shaped like this with a keyboard, like an old Blackberry that could be used as a terminal.
A little worried that with swapping those components like that, it’s trying to be too many things for too many different groups of people instead of one exact thing.
Isn't that exactly what made Raspberry Pis a massive hit? Being able to be so many different things for so many different groups of people, at a reasonable price point, maximizing the groups it appealed to?
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Looks suspiciously like a smartphone with an external KB plugin
I'll wait for retail if ever. I learnt my lesson about backing tech based kickstarters.
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I'm intrigued. And although I read the article, I'm not entirely sure who or what this is for. It's cool, but... what?
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I've learned not to get my hopes up with kickstarters but I'll keep an eye on this one
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Looks nice and I'd like it even more, had it an USB-C port with display output.
But even in the current configuration it's a nice gadget at a reasonable price point.
4 GB RAM is not exactly great for a kind of desktop computer (even with Linux), but using this thing as a server with a built-in keyboard and display would have saved me some trouble I faced with unresponsive RaspberryPis.
Too bad it's packed full of features I don't care about and lacks ones I do.
These handhelds are cool but I think I'll skip this one.