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[–] 14 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

They should build a foldable one with an attached display, a mouse pad and a battery. It would be a complete, but portable workstation! Wouldn't that be nice?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You've just invented the laptop

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    A raspberry laptop would be really nice. Like a laptop that allowed every component to be replaced continuously. Need more computing power? Change the pi board for a newer one. Broken screen? Change it. Battery gone bad? Replace it.

    It would be like the the Theseus ship!

    Also fully repairable and more environmental friendly

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    Trying to think through a use case for this… just for tinkering around?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I bought the 400 version of this device for like $100 as my son’s first computer. I think he was 6 when I gave it to him. Of course now we have upgraded him to a Mac mini as he needed a more capable machine now that he has gotten interested in 3d modeling. It’s a good little machine for the right use case.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    I guess that if you have a usb-c monitor in multiple locations, you can just carry a keyboard and mouse....

    Cool, but not sure if it's useful. Someone will buy it though.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Everything I can think of would be better served by a laptop or a mini PC.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If you want something for your kids that runs Linux out of the box, it might be a good option.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If you want to use glasses as a monitor replacement, that sort of form factor is one possible outcome. Someone did a PC with that as a display, and IIRC it kinda looked like that.

    kagis

    Spacetop:

    https://www.pcworld.com/article/1919392/spacetop-is-the-first-laptop-without-a-screen.html

    Like you, I kind of prefer the idea of separating the keyboard from the rest of the PC if you're doing that. Just use a carrying case/backpack/whatever and plug and take the cables out when setting up. But if you place a premium on setup time and portability, if you're very frequently popping the thing open and shut, I suppose it's not unreasonable. I mean, we could theoretically also have a mini PC plus portable display plus keyboard form factor, and yet, that's much less popular than the laptop form factor.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sorry for the off-topic question but I'm curious. I have seen people say "kagis" in a comment a few times in the past and I tried looking it up to see what it means but found irrelevant results. What does it mean in this context? Thanks in advance!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    My office uses hot desking. You get a monitor, with a usb-C docking station with a cheap dell mouse and keyboard.

    I could see this working in that situation if you want a good keyboard/mouse. You can't easily take it to a meeting room to take notes though....

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Back in the days I had a RPi2B(!) linked to the living room TV for browsing the web. I'm really thinking of buying a 500+, as I do have use cases. I could use a remote desktop on it to display maps on the big screen from my laptop for D&D gaming, for example.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Will it be upgradeable with newer boards? because if not, nope. boards can be repurposed for lighter tasks when they are superseeded, but in this case the large format is a very limiting factor.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Are the switches hot swapable?
    I dont like how spilling your coffee/beer will break the keyboard and the computer.. woulld be better off mounting a pi on the monitor....

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