The company’s website is currently collecting email signups for early-bird pricing. Pricing has not been announced. Neither have display resolution, exact dimensions, weight, or the availability of expansion ports.
So all we know is that some company wants to sell something at some point in the future.
Wow, coding on the worst physical topology/topography for the kind of input you need to perform.
A programmer needs to type fast, navigate the cursor rapidly and with easily attained precision, and needs the information displayed on a large screen so that they don’t go blind working on the code. This machine is a friggin nightmare.
you’d think so as i did, yet people wanted to do it on their blackberry’s back when i did front line tech support.
Wanted to, but how many ppl actually did and were productive?
it was my job back then to enable them as much as possible, so i looked for their perforce submits for follow up and every single one of them did.
most of them did it while on ultra long flights to korea/japan/singapore/tiawan/isreal from san francisco too… on a blackberry. 🤷♂️
That’s pretty cool. I will say that a little productivity is better than none.
that was the logic that most of them used and i get it a little bit if you’re on 20+ hour flight when laptop batteries lasted less than 2 hours back then, but the thought of writing code in one of these makes my hand hurt:
i supposed it wasn’t so bad for the python or ruby guys, but they were in the minority at the time. most were writing in java and that seems painful with all of the non-romantic characters that it requires wo an ide; atleast this lini device has full keyboard w curly braces.
I had to manage with one of these things:
At least it ran Linux. The one thing the Zaurus had going for it though? Completely readable in sunlight. It was amazing at the time.
at least w linux, there’s a chance you could use and ide – even if it’s only vim or emacs. lol
the blackberry guys were literally just using a text editor. it ever ceased to be amazed at the level of dedication those people had to their jobs.
A portable keyboard and a Steamdeck are a better choice.
This way I can play Halo while deploying or when the Sales Dude complains about the website.
Steam Deck is a really under appreciated Linux machine in my opinion.
It’s an amazing device. Playing games, then watching movies from my home server on the plane when I travel, then plugging in a keyboard mouse and monitor and using it as my sole work machine at the remote office.
The desktop environment is solid, everything is there that I need.
ALSO: International travel, it basically gets ignored as anything more than a game machine.
oh I didn’t even consider the last bit
1993 wants its prototype back
Yeah hell naw lol. I need an actual keyboard.
I guarantee this will cost more and be less hackable than the offerings from ClockworkPi
Should have made it foldable. Like early mobile phones…
Or a Nintendo DS. Or the ill-fated OpenPandora
What is this, a portable workstation for ants?
It looks like a uConsole
there seem to be a whole a bunch of these projects now
Modern 14" Thinkpads are already the golden balance of size and portability imo. I alrrady “actually carry” my laptop with me, thank you
You mean like uConsole?
If anyone is looking for a something like this that they can buy today for a reasonable price, check out the GPD Micro PC 2.