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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Can I just send you five years worth of „we’re sorry we’re behind schedule” messages and then ghost you instead? If so send me $159

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

My first thought: If this ever ships, I'll eat an outboard motor.

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[–] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I will do it for $149, don't be stupid and come to me!!!

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

$145.99 with me, just look at these CU-RAH-ZY savings!!!

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

I'll do it for free. Just going it for the love of the game

[–] 737@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

the specs and the execution (2cm thick) seem reasonably bad, so i do think its pretty reasonable to manufacture in a small batch at that price

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 75 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Ooof. After having a pinephone, I know what 2 or 3GB of RAM can handle these days. Not much, really. Specially the moment you open the browser. I'm going to pass from any project that doesn't attempt to at least get close to this decade's standards.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My current Android phone has 4GB and it's really smooth. I've got 90 Firefox tabs open and several apps. I'd love to see that level of optimization in a startup, but more RAM will just mask the bad optimization.

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[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago (6 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.

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[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] abaddon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yeah I also don't want android.

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

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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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 81 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That looks amazing.

... For 2008.

[–] jimitsoni18@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Worry not: in 20 years' time people born in 2028 will all pretty much look like kids to you.

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You were born in multiple years?

[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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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[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 10 points 1 day ago

That still looks awesome NGL

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Basically Android is Linux but......in weirdest way if i must say.
Now....we just need to make it modular right....????

[–] Kajika@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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...

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[–] bpt11@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

Those look really cool, I would be pleasantly surprised if they ever came to fruition

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Looks suspiciously like a smartphone with an external KB plugin

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty neat, but probably not something I'd buy

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[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] heavy@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

They just use really low spec hardware…

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[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

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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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I'll wait for retail if ever. I learnt my lesson about backing tech based kickstarters.

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